Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 11/09/2026
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Role summary
This Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse position is within the H&F Assertive Engagement and Rehabilitation Team. The role involves working with individuals with complex mental health needs, supporting their recovery and independence. It requires excellent communication, clinical decision-making, and risk management skills. The successful candidate will work across both rehabilitation and assertive outreach pathways.
Key responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive, culturally appropriate, evidence-based assessments to establish client's needs.
- Manage a small caseload of service users with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs.
- Act as a named worker for service users and hold a caseload of nursing-specific clients.
- Present cases to relevant placement panels for funding requests and reviews.
- Work proactively with service providers to draw up resettlement plans and carry out regular reviews.
- Contribute to service development and undertake supervisory/appraisal responsibilities.
Essential criteria
- Current professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing
- Registration must be live with the NMC
- Evidence of post registration training and CPD.
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary mental health teams with clients with severe and enduring mental health problems
- Knowledge of multi/unidisciplinary care planning processes and multi-agency working
- Work with people experiencing mental health crisis.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and presentations / IT skills.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive care package for the identified client group, using a wide range of resources.
- Able to develop a comprehensive programme of intervention and support for the identified client group and their families
- Advanced skills in risk assessment and management.
- Can demonstrate understanding of psychosis and its impact on service users and carers.
- Demonstrate knowledge of current legislation and guidance applicable to this client group
- Can demonstrate understanding of the needs of diverse groups, e.g. residents of inner city; black and minority ethnic groups, and skills in engaging with them.
- Skills in psychosocial interventions
- Prior experience of working in mental health rehabilitation or assertive outreach
- Motivated
- Able to create good relationships with clients, carers, other professionals and other stakeholders
- Work with service users who are difficult to engage with
- Reliable
- Disciplined
Desirable criteria
- Other relevant training, e.g. substance misuse
- Family Therapy/Work training.
- Training in Psychosocial Interventions or Thorn
- Basic counselling and group work skills.
- Skills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change.
- Working with people who use substances
- Audit and research; Teaching.
- Supervision of students and junior staff.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 3d ago · Closes in 13d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Job summary
Thank you for your interest in the Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) position within our H&F Assertive Engagement and Rehabilitation Team.
Please read the Job Description and Person Specification carefully to ensure you meet the essential criteria and hold the relevant current professional registration. This post is currently ring-fenced for nursing applicants only.
West London NHS Trust's Community Rehabilitation Services are undergoing an exciting period of development, with the integration of an assertive outreach function. The successful candidate will work across both rehabilitation and assertive outreach pathways.
We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health nurse with experience in psychosocial rehabilitation and a passion for service development.
Previous experience in a rehabilitation or assertive outreach setting is essential. You will support people with complex mental health needs to achieve recovery, greater independence and improved quality of life.
The role requires excellent communication, clinical decision-making, risk management, multidisciplinary working and the ability to engage individuals who may find it difficult to access or maintain contact with services.
You will be supported by experienced senior and professional managers and a committed multidisciplinary team. We offer opportunities for ongoing traini
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