Community Psychiatric Nurse (Developmental Role)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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“Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Please ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role is for a Community Psychiatric Nurse within the Community Mental Health Team for older people (over 65) at Weymouth Community Hospital. The team provides assessment, support, treatment, and advice for individuals with moderate to severe mental health conditions, including dementia. The post holder will work as part of an established multi-disciplinary team, assessing and monitoring patients in their homes and community settings. The role requires a reliable, committed, and dynamic professional with excellent communication and organisational skills.
Essential criteria
- Applicant must be a car driver and have access to a vehicle
- Knowledge, Skills and Training
- Registered mental health nurse to degree/diploma level.
- Membership of the relevant professional body
Desirable criteria
- Learning and assessing in practice qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
- Job specific experience
- Experience at RMN Band 5 level.
- Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in comparable role.
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively.
- Recent previous experience within a comparable role.
- Information technology/resources
- Experience of using electronic patient/service user record systems
- Able to analyse data and produce reports using Microsoft Excel and Word.
- Role Specific
- Applicant must be a car driver and have access to a vehicle
- Knowledge, Skills and Training
- Registered mental health nurse to degree/diploma level.
- Membership of the relevant professional body
- Learning and assessing in practice qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
- Job specific experience
- Experience at RMN Band 5 level.
- Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in comparable role.
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively.
- Recent previous experience within a comparable role.
- Information technology/resources
- Experience of using electronic patient/service user record systems
- Able to analyse data and produce reports using Microsoft Excel and Word.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £19,243 – £28,870 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 9d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Community Psychiatric Nurse (Developmental Role)
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
The Community Mental health Team (CMHT) for older people is based at Weymouth Community Hospital. The team offer assessment, support, treatment, and advice to older people (over 65) who have moderate to severe mental health conditions. We offer a range of psychological interventions, including Art Therapy. We also support people with a dementia diagnosis who present with a degree of risk or behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD).
The team is made up of registered mental health nurses, Psychologists and Consultant psychiatrist. The multi-disciplinary team offer specialist interventions which support people in managing their mental health and wellbeing. The team link extensively with a wide range of partners from the Health Service, including the local frailty team, Dorset County Council and Local Community services in enabling individual health and social care needs to be met.
We are fortunate enough to be participating of lots of local developments including the development of the integrated neighbourhood team and Access Wellbeing. This is an exciting time to come and join the team, where we are in a newly refurbished environment.
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