# Community Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-nurse/cbf61a94-d1e6-4b48-b0ed-942498c25496 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-nurse/cbf61a94-d1e6-4b48-b0ed-942498c25496.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** North East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Church Road Health Centre, Harold Wood, Essex, RM3 0SH, United Kingdom - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48118.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-08-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-17T12:56:24.128Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9395-26-0456 - **Application URL:** https://jobs.careers.nelft.nhs.uk/Job/JobDetail?jobid=1601&source=JobtrainNHSJobs - **Employer website:** https://www.nelft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join our team in the Havering Mental Health & Wellness Team North. 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. 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 To work flexibly within the demands of the service To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients/patients. To be able to assess and develop plans of care to meet the complex needs of patients with a variety of conditions. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk. To provide supervision to junior colleagues. To be computer literate. Excellent verbal and written communication skills The ability to travel to a variety of sites. ### About us NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care. ### Details - Date posted: 17 August 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 6 - Salary: £39,959 to £48,118 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: NDD-001576 - Job locations: Church Road Health Centre, Harold Wood, Essex, RM3 0SH, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post holder will operate as a senior nurse to support duty and care coordination. The successful candidate will work closely within a multi-disciplinary team and other agencies to deliver high quality evidence-based recovery focused health and social care interventions that includes managing risk and the Safeguarding of vulnerable adults. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the development and improvement of service delivery, provide managerial supervision to junior colleagues and to work closely with GPs to ensure the safe discharge of mental health patients to primary care. Starting with NELFT NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. The induction will be held at our head office in Goodmayes. Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff). High Cost Area Supplement – Outer London This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,870 to a maximum of £6,137 p.a. pro rata for part time). Working for Us Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas. The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area - Awareness of The 1983 Mental Health Act, related legal guidance and ethical practice ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to work under pressure, quickly and effectively, making timely clinical decisions in conjunction with the MDT ### Knowledge **Essential** - An awareness of NHS priorities - Must have experience of assessing mental state, planning and initiate care, while managing risks - Understanding the Community Care Act and its application. - Understanding of contemporary evidence based ‘best practice’ - Working Knowledge of safeguarding principals and how to escalate safeguarding concerns ### Experience **Essential** - Minimum of 3 years experience - Well-developed interpersonal skills, especially the ability to engage with service users and significant others in busy/high pressure environments - Experience of working with adults who have complex mental health needs, including Dual Diagnosis - Experience of working/liaising with multi-disciplinary teams, internal and external agencies in the provision of care - Experience of working both independently and as part of the team **Desirable** - Experience of working in an acute environment ### Qualifications **Essential** - RMN qualification with a Registration with the NMC - Teaching qualification or other specific job-related post-registration qualification (eg Mentoring and Enabling Learning in Practice, ENB-998 or equivalent) **Desirable** - Evidence of ongoing CPD ### Demonstration of Trust Values **Essential** - We are kind - We are respectful - We work together with our communities ## Documents - [Band 6 Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, KB)](https://jobs.careers.nelft.nhs.uk/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=1370&JobId=1601) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.