Community Mental Health Nurse - Assertive Outreach
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 05/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/08/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Community Mental Health Nurse within a new Assertive Outreach Team in Oxford. The team provides high-quality, person-centred care to individuals with complex mental health needs who struggle to engage with traditional services. The nurse will deliver recovery-focused, evidence-based interventions in community settings, homes, or Trust premises. This position involves working autonomously within a multidisciplinary team to assess patients, develop treatment plans, and promote recovery and relapse prevention.
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualification (Degree or equivalent)
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio
- Professional Registration (RMN)
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate education specifically relating to client group (Post basic qualification in community care/ research awareness/ management)
- Occupational Experience
- To have experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
- To have highly extensive experience which should include community and working with mental health
- To have a good knowledge and interest in community care and have specific clinical expertise in mental health
- Understand and have experience of Risk Management
- Experience of supervising other staff
- Understand and have experience of Risk Management
- Good knowledge of community services
- Awareness of National and local issues concerning mental health
- Experience of supervising student placements.
- Experience of audit
- Skills required - IT / Admin
- To be IT literate
- To have excellent English written communication skills
- Education and Training
- Professional Qualification (Degree or equivalent)
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio
- Professional Registration (RMN)
- Post graduate education specifically relating to client group (Post basic qualification in community care/ research awareness/ management)
- Occupational Experience
- To have experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
- To have highly extensive experience which should include community and working with mental health
- To have a good knowledge and interest in community care and have specific clinical expertise in mental health
- Understand and have experience of Risk Management
- Experience of supervising other staff
- Understand and have experience of Risk Management
- Good knowledge of community services
- Awareness of National and local issues concerning mental health
- Experience of supervising student placements.
- Experience of audit
- Skills required - IT / Admin
- To be IT literate
- To have excellent English written communication skills
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxford Health NHS Trust
Community Mental Health Nurse - Assertive Outreach
The closing date is 30 August 2026
Job summary
Are you a registered nurse seeking an opportunity in a brand new mental health service?
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to invite applications for a Community Mental Health Nurse role within our newly established Assertive Outreach Team (AOT).
This innovative service will provide high-quality, person-centred care to individuals with complex mental health needs who may struggle to engage with traditional services. Operating across Oxford, the team will deliver proactive, flexible support, responding to need in a timely and coordinated manner.
Assertive Outreach is founded on active engagement rather than office-based care. Staff will work flexibly across the city, supporting individuals in community settings, their homes or Trust premises. Interventions will be tailored, relationship-focused and recovery-oriented, promoting continuity, trust and consistent engagement. Shared caseload responsibility, alongside a key worker model and regular MDT reviews, will enable rapid responses to relapse, risk and disengagement.
We are seeking motivated and compassionate professionals who are committed to supporting some of the most vulnerable people in our communities. You will be confident in managing complexity and dynamic risk, whil
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