Staff Nurse - Mental Health Community (Assertive Outreach)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 02/10/2026
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Role summary
This Staff Nurse role is within a new Assertive Outreach (AO) service in Slough, providing intensive, flexible, and proactive support to individuals with severe and enduring mental health needs who struggle to engage with traditional services. The post holder will deliver recovery-focused, evidence-based nursing interventions, build therapeutic relationships, and contribute specialist mental health nursing expertise to a multidisciplinary team. The role involves comprehensive assessments, care plan development, and delivering care primarily in community settings.
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- NMC Registration
- Specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate short courses, training and equivalent experience, in a relevant field.
- Continuous Professional Development
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Previous Experience
- Demonstrable experience of working autonomously to deliver high quality and evidence-based nursing care.
- Experience in providing supervision to junior colleagues and students in the completion of routine nursing and clinical skills.
- Uphold the Trust's values of being caring, committed and working as team through demonstrable examples and experience
- Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Demonstrable understanding of an acute mental health environment and relevant legislation such as the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and DOLs
- Proficient use of digital tools and applications including Word, Outlook and patient management systems.
- Additional Requirements
- Ability to travel between multiple Trust sites and non-Trust locations, including patient homes, some of which may not be easily accessible via public transport.
- Education, qualifications or training
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- NMC Registration
- Specialist knowledge acquired through post graduate short courses, training and equivalent experience, in a relevant field.
- Continuous Professional Development
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Previous Experience
- Demonstrable experience of working autonomously to deliver high quality and evidence-based nursing care.
- Experience in providing supervision to junior colleagues and students in the completion of routine nursing and clinical skills.
- Uphold the Trust's values of being caring, committed and working as team through demonstrable examples and experience
- Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Demonstrable understanding of an acute mental health environment and relevant legislation such as the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and DOLs
- Proficient use of digital tools and applications including Word, Outlook and patient management systems.
- Additional Requirements
- Ability to travel between multiple Trust sites and non-Trust locations, including patient homes, some of which may not be easily accessible via public transport.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £41,957 – £50,387 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse - Mental Health Community (Assertive Outreach)
The closing date is 02 October 2026
Job summary
BHFT is developing a specialist multidisciplinary Assertive Outreach (AO) service, aligned with Community Mental Health Services, to provide safe, compassionate and flexible support for people with severe and enduring mental health needs who may struggle to engage with services.
The service will initially operate from two hubs in Reading and Slough, and we are recruiting two Band 6 nurses to support its rollout.
This role is based within the Slough team and is one of several new specialist posts. The successful candidate will also work across the Trust to help develop a consistent AO approach and promote best practice.
Our approach is centred on:
- Working alongside individuals, families, carers and wider support networks to overcome barriers such as trauma, mistrust, communication needs, co-existing conditions and social challenges.
- Delivering proactive, intensive, holistic and flexible care, meeting people where they are and tailoring support to their needs.Promoting fair access to mental health care, particularly for marginalised and underserved communities, while addressing health inequalities
To achieve this, we work with smaller caseloads than traditional Community Mental Health Services, enabling more intensive s
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