Community Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

We are looking for a compassionate and motivated Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurse to join the Queens Park and Paddington Community Mental Health Hub in Westminster.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to develop your skills within a supportive multidisciplinary team, delivering recovery focused, person centred care to people accessing community mental health services. You will work alongside experienced clinicians, receiving strong supervision and development opportunities while building confidence in community mental health practice.

This post is ideal for a nurse who is keen to grow, learn and contribute to innovative and collaborative ways of working within a community mental health hub.

Main duties of the job

• Develop and deliver recovery focused care in collaboration with service users and their family /carers.
• Provide information and psychoeducation surrounding mental health conditions and medication.
• Uphold legal frameworks which underpin service delivery.
• Assess risks, the management of risks and effectiveness of interventions.
• Signposting / referral to external services when required.
• Develop good working relationships with neighbouring teams to enable effective co-working and  responsive transfers of care if necessary.
• Act as duty officer on a rota basis
• Support the administration and monitoring of medication.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As part of the Community Mental Health Hub, you will contribute to the day to day clinical running of the service while developing your skills and confidence as a community mental health nurse.

You will take part in duty days, supporting timely responses to service users, carers and professionals. This includes responding to queries, identifying risk, escalating concerns appropriately and working with senior staff to coordinate care.

You will gain experience in triage work, learning how referrals are received, reviewed and processed. This will include contributing to brief assessments, gathering key information, supporting risk identification, and assisting with signposting, onward referral or allocation, with guidance from senior clinicians.

You will attend Therapies Hub meetings and contribute to discussions where referrals are being considered for psychological interventions. This includes presenting relevant information, highlighting risk, and developing an understanding of thresholds and pathways.

You will support physical health monitoring through assessment and follow up, including basic observations, health promotion and healthy lifestyle advice, working within your competencies and with supervision.

You will hold a defined caseload appropriate to your level of experience, providing ongoing support, reviews and interventions under supervision, and developing skills in managing workload, prioritisation and documentation.

You will contribute to service quality and improvement activity, including supporting audits, data collection and KPI related work, and developing an understanding of how community services measure safety, quality and performance.

You will work closely with multidisciplinary colleagues and partner services, and engage in regular supervision, reflective practice and training to support your development within the Community Mental Health Hub.