Community Psychiatric Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join our team in Waltham Forest Mental Health & Wellness Team Central. We are seeking an experienced, motivated and compassionate mental health nurse to join us in providing high quality, person centred care within a community setting. This role offers an exciting opportunity to support individuals experiencing a range of mental health and wellbeing needs, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver timely, responsive, and recovery-focused interventions.

If you are a Registered Mental Health Nurse, and wish to work in this role, we look forward to hearing from you.

Aim of the role

The post holder will be expected to support the team, department and organisation to achieve the Trust’s Values in their day to day work. They are:

• We are kind.
• We are respectful.
• We work together with our communities.

The post holder will play a key role in assessing needs, planning and delivering interventions, and supporting individuals to improve their mental health, resilience, and overall wellbeing. You will work collaboratively with service users, carers, and partner agencies to ensure a holistic approach to care, promoting recovery, independence and reducing reliance on secondary services.

The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills, sound clinical judgement, and a commitment to delivering safe, effective, and compassionate care.

This role is ideal for someone who is proactive, flexible, and passionate about improving access to mental health support within the community, while contributing to continuous service development and innovation.

Main duties of the job

You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and will support the Team triage and coordinate complex and challenging cases coming into the service. You will require good IT skills and knowledge of using electronic recording systems. It is essential that you are willing to work flexibly within the demands of the service and collaborate with other agencies to deliver recovery focused health and social care interventions, including managing risk and safeguarding of vulnerable adults. The successful candidate will be expected to provide managerial supervision to junior colleagues, mentor MDT students and participate in ongoing educational and research programmes.

Pay and Benefits

Higher Cost Area Supplement: 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,551 to a maximum of £5,735).

Key Responsibilities

1. To undertake assessment of clients’ needs and formulate with the service user where possible individual care plans.
2. Build effective relationships with service users.
3. Ensure that relatives and carers of service users, where appropriate, have a good understanding of the condition of the service user and feel able to communicate effectively with the clinical area to answer any queries or concerns.
4. To participate in reviews and case conferences and attend ward/community reviews and CPA meetings.
5. To inspire hope in service users to achieve their recovery goals.
6. Spend constructive, designated time with service users on a 1‑1 basis, to build and maintain effective relationships with them.
7. Communicate, at all times, in a way which demonstrates the Trust’s values and expectations when working alongside service users/carers and relatives.
8. Work alongside service users and carers/relatives to continually work towards improving and maintaining high standards.
9. To initiate and develop new ideas and methods in consultation with the Team manager.
10. Participate in research, audit reviews and other initiatives in accordance with Clinical Governance.
11. Actively contribute to the development and review of policies and procedures based upon best practice.
12. Understand and practice all relevant Trust and local policies and procedures.
13. Raise quality issues and related risks with ward/team manager or senior manager.
14. Evaluate the quality of own work, making improvements when necessary.
15. Have a good understanding of the Trust’s Service User Led Standards, Quality and Performance agenda and how it impacts on the performance of their team.
16. Be responsible for ensuring that accurate legible records are kept in accordance with Trust policies and legal requirements.
17. Report all complaints and/or incidents in accordance with Trust procedures and ensure that the line manager is informed.
18. Cooperate with any investigation within the Trust.
19. To ensure that the application and administration of the Mental Health Act is implemented appropriately.
20. Actively identify full range of needs pertaining to equality and diversity issues that may arise for service users and their carers.
21. Ensure equality and diversity issues are reflected in the course of clinical practice and in carrying out all other duties pertaining to the post.
22. Be aware of any religious/cultural needs of service users and ensure this is reflected in the care that is provided.
23. Treat service users, relatives and carers with dignity and respect at all times.
24. Act in a way which facilitates service users rights to make their own decisions and also recognise their responsibilities.
25. To complete, with service user (except in exceptional circumstances), a care plan, taking into account the service user’s needs and aspirations in order to promote recovery and well‑being.
26. To establish supportive and empowering relationships with the Service Users and carers.
27. To take part in multidisciplinary and multi‑agency assessments of service users and assist in coordinating regular clinical reviews.
28. Refer service users to other practitioners when needs and risks are beyond own scope of practice.
29. To maintain written progress notes and support programmes which are evaluated on a regular basis with the service users.
30. To ensure carers are offered assessment of their needs in a timely manner.
31. To ensure the safe custody of administration of drugs in accordance with professional code of practice and Trust policy.
32. To identify any problems or deficit of care provision, and take appropriate action.
33. Provide high quality evidence‑based and individualised mental health care to a group of service users, relatives and carers.
34. Work alongside service user in identifying and achieving planned outcomes.
35. To undertake collaborative and holistic assessment of clients’ needs and formulate individual care plans and risk assessments to address identified needs and concerns.

Equality and Diversity

North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) is committed to the implementation of the Equality and Diversity at Workplace policy which ensures equal opportunities for all. NELFT is also committed to embracing diversity and eliminating discrimination in both its role as an employer and as a provider of services. It aims to create a culture that respects and values each other’s differences, promotes dignity, equality and diversity and encourages individuals to develop and maximise their potential. The Trust will ensure that it provides equal and fairness for all, and not to discriminate on the grounds of gender, marital status, race/ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, religion, transgender or gender reassignment status, age, marriage or civil partnership/same sex marriage, and because of you being pregnant or being on maternity/paternity leave. All staff are required to observe this policy in their behaviour to employees and patients/service users.

Standards of Business Conduct & Conflict of Interest

The NHS Code of Conduct and Standards of Business conduct for NHS Staff require all employees to declare all situations where you or a close relative or associate has a controlling interest in a business or any activity which may compete for NHS contracts. All such interests must be declared in the Trust’s register of interests either on appointment or when such interests are gained. Employees are required to adhere to the Trust’s governance policies, such as Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions.

Information Security and Confidentiality

All employees are required to observe the strictest confidence with regard to any patient/client information that they may have access to, or accidentally gain knowledge of, in the course of their duties. All person identifiable information must be held in the strictest confidence and should be disclosed only to authorised people in accordance with NHS Confidentiality Guidelines and the Data Protection Act.

Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

Each individual and service will be set KPIs and achievement against these will be regularly reviewed. Performance against individual and service KPIs will be routinely monitored by your manager.

Other Duties

There may be a requirement to undertake other duties as may reasonably be required to support the Trust. These may be based at other Trust managed locations.

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