Community Psychiatric Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- 21.6
- Hours / week
- 21.6
- Posted
- 25/08/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join the enhanced community dementia team. The role involves providing specialist dementia care, facilitating rapid diagnosis, treatment, and crisis intervention. You will be part of a multi-professional team, contributing to shaping a developing service and preventing avoidable hospital admissions.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £43,231 – £52,679 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job reference:
257748
Salary:
Band 6 (£43,231 - £52,679)
Job closing date:
13/09/2026
Job Type:
Nursing and Midwifery
Location:
Oban
Employment type:
Permanent
Hours Per Week:
21.6
Job posted date:
25/08/2026
Employer (NHS Board):
NHS Highland
Department:
Community Dementia Team
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Job Advert
We are looking to recruit a Band 6 CPN to our service within the enhanced community dementia team.
The service is currently in an exciting period of growth and transformation, to provide locality based specialist dementia care for pre, peri and post diagnostic dementia care and support.
This is an interesting and exciting opportunity that will provide you with a challenging and rewarding role within the multi professional dementia team and the opportunity to be part of shaping this developing service. We will expect you to have well-developed clinical assessment skills, leadership skills, an ability to compile care plans in partnership with service users and carers. The priorities of this post will be to facilitate rapid access to a diagnosis, treatment, crisis prevention and intervention along with preventing avoidable hospital admissions and assisting with timely discharge from hospital.
The service comprises of three teams staffed with mental health nurses, occupational t
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