Mental Health Practitioner (Community Psychiatric Nurse)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Mental Health Practitioner (Community Psychiatric Nurse) within the Fenland Adult Locality Team in Wisbech. The successful candidate will manage client care coordination, provide leadership, and ensure comprehensive assessments, planning, implementation, and review of care. They will also manage patient care plans and recovery goals using Dialog+ and participate in the duty rota as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Mental Health (RNMH)
- Current NMC Registration
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate qualification related to specialism
- Additional qualification for specialism
- Experience of working as part of an MDT
- Basic training in mental capacity act
- Experience of dealing with service users with complex mental health needs
- Lived experience of mental health
- Experience of developing service user and carer involvement
- Skills and abilities
- Effective communication skills both verbal, written and IT literacy
- Ability to work as part of a team, as a role model, empowering and motivating other team members
- Ability to work with minimum supervision
- Ability to advocate for the service users and colleagues you are supporting
- Ability to calmly manage complex and stressful situations, prioritising own work and the work of others
- Ability to present complex information to various audiences
- Knowledge and understanding
- Knowledge of physical healthcare needs
- Awareness of safeguarding issues and responsibilities under relevant legislation
- Understanding of legislation relating to care including: mental health act, mental capacity act, safeguards, Equality act, health and safety act, knowledge of NICE guidance
- Other
- Continue professional development and participate
- Ability to travel independently around the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
- Education/Qualifications
- Registered Nurse Mental Health (RNMH)
- Current NMC Registration
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Post graduate qualification related to specialism
- Additional qualification for specialism
- Experience of working as part of an MDT
- Basic training in mental capacity act
- Experience of dealing with service users with complex mental health needs
- Lived experience of mental health
- Experience of developing service user and carer involvement
- Skills and abilities
- Effective communication skills both verbal, written and IT literacy
- Ability to work as part of a team, as a role model, empowering and motivating other team members
- Ability to work with minimum supervision
- Ability to advocate for the service users and colleagues you are supporting
- Ability to calmly manage complex and stressful situations, prioritising own work and the work of others
- Ability to present complex information to various audiences
- Knowledge and understanding
- Knowledge of physical healthcare needs
- Awareness of safeguarding issues and responsibilities under relevant legislation
- Understanding of legislation relating to care including: mental health act, mental capacity act, safeguards, Equality act, health and safety act, knowledge of NICE guidance
- Other
- Continue professional development and participate
- Ability to travel independently around the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area meeting required timescales. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
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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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Mental Health Practitioner (Community Psychiatric Nurse)
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
Fenland Adult Locality Team is based in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. We are a small team and work in a rural catchment area.
The role will take on the care co-ordination for clients and provide leadership to support to others, to ensure that full assessment of individual care needs are undertaken, that care is planned, implemented and reviewed on a regular basis. Dialog + is supporting patients care plans and recovery goals which you will manage for patients on your caseload.
You will participate on the duty rota and be a member of the MDT.
Main duties of the job
- To participate on the duty rota.
- To act as a role model and promote effective teamwork across the service to meet individual client needs.
- To ensure that the CPA and Mental Health Act is adhered to at all times, and to work within the boundaries set out by the Trust' Policies and Procedures.
**Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in yo
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