Community Psychiatric Nurse/Care Co-Ordinator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 02/09/2026
- Closes
- 16/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves working as a Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse and Care Coordinator within the Community Recovery Services in Sandwell. You will manage a caseload of service users with mental health needs, assess and formulate individual intervention plans, and participate in crisis management as part of the duty system. The position requires a Registered Mental Health Nurse with experience in adult and community mental health, focusing on promoting recovery and working collaboratively within a multi-agency team.
Essential criteria
- RMN
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to communicate with staff at all levels both, internal and external , patients , carers, external agencies
- Specialist skills in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans for adults with mental health difficulties
- Ability to use own initiative and work without supervision
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- Effective IT skills and administrative skills to support accurate record keeping
- Experience of collaborative working across agencies and professional disciplines.
- Excellent risk assessment and management skills
- Ability to deal with challenging situations
- Post registration experience of working in multidisciplinary community mental health services
- Knowledge of government directives and current policies
- Working knowledge of relevant legislation including MHA 1983
- Knowledge of the safe storage, administration and monitoring the effectiveness of psychotropic medications
- Experience of organising own workload and managing competing demands
- Working knowledge of relevant legislation and guidelines including adult and children safeguarding legislation
- Understanding of psychosocial interventions
- Organisational and time management skills
- Flexibility of working hours
- Personal Integrity
- Drive and enthusiasm
- Demonstrates a belief in working within person centre care approach
- Ability to lead and motivate projects and people
- Promotes recovery and social inclusion
- Ability to commute to meet the post requirements
- Good general standard of health
- An ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- A problem solving approach to professional practice
- Demonstrate Trust behaviours
Desirable criteria
- community experience
- degree or posExperience of using a range of therapeutic interventions in a mental health context e.g. CBT, SFTt graduate study
- RMN
- RMN
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to communicate with staff at all levels both, internal and external , patients , carers, external agencies
- Specialist skills in assessing and formulating individual intervention plans for adults with mental health difficulties
- Ability to use own initiative and work without supervision
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- Effective IT skills and administrative skills to support accurate record keeping
- Experience of collaborative working across agencies and professional disciplines.
- Excellent risk assessment and management skills
- Ability to deal with challenging situations
- Post registration experience of working in multidisciplinary community mental health services
- Knowledge of government directives and current policies
- Working knowledge of relevant legislation including MHA 1983
- Knowledge of the safe storage, administration and monitoring the effectiveness of psychotropic medications
- Experience of organising own workload and managing competing demands
- Working knowledge of relevant legislation and guidelines including adult and children safeguarding legislation
- Understanding of psychosocial interventions
- Organisational and time management skills
- Flexibility of working hours
- Personal Integrity
- Drive and enthusiasm
- Demonstrates a belief in working within person centre care approach
- Ability to lead and motivate projects and people
- Promotes recovery and social inclusion
- Ability to commute to meet the post requirements
- Good general standard of health
- An ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- A problem solving approach to professional practice
- Demonstrate Trust behaviours
- community experience
- degree or posExperience of using a range of therapeutic interventions in a mental health context e.g. CBT, SFTt graduate study
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.
Posted 5d ago · Closes in 10d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Community Psychiatric Nurse/Care Co-Ordinator
The closing date is 16 September 2026
Job summary
Following recent investment to support the transformation of community mental health nursing, we are pleased to announce that we are looking to recruit additional Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurses within the Community Recovery Services across the Sandwell locality.
This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a supportive and diverse, multi-agency team who are currently receiving significant investment aiming to transform community mental health services across the Black Country. We will develop a new community mental health way of working and modernise community mental health services, taking into account the particular needs of our four places (Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton). Our new model will focus on supporting people living in their communities with mental health challenges.
Your role will include working as a Care Coordinator where you will have responsibility for managing a caseload of service users with mental health needs who have been referred to the team via a number of access points. As a further extension of this role you will also be involved in Crisis management as part of the duty system and you will undertake the role of the duty nurse on a rostered basis. You will work from our communit
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