# Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for West London NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-psychiatric-nurse-cpn/f76d87d5-5f98-439f-9275-4906e5e62053 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-psychiatric-nurse-cpn/f76d87d5-5f98-439f-9275-4906e5e62053.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** West London NHS Trust - **Location:** St Bernard's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 per annum pro rata inclusive of 20% HCAS - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-11T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-27T12:11:09.727Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/West_London_NHS_Trust/LS_HF_Rehabilitation/LS_HF_Rehabilitation-v8258895 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8258895?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Thank you for your interest in the Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) position within our H&F Assertive Engagement and Rehabilitation Team. Please read the Job Description and Person Specification carefully to ensure you meet the essential criteria and hold the relevant current professional registration. This post is currently ring-fenced for nursing applicants only. West London NHS Trust’s Community Rehabilitation Services are undergoing an exciting period of development, with the integration of an assertive outreach function. The successful candidate will work across both rehabilitation and assertive outreach pathways. We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health nurse with experience in psychosocial rehabilitation and a passion for service development. Previous experience in a rehabilitation or assertive outreach setting is essential. You will support people with complex mental health needs to achieve recovery, greater independence and improved quality of life. The role requires excellent communication, clinical decision-making, risk management, multidisciplinary working and the ability to engage individuals who may find it difficult to access or maintain contact with services. You will be supported by experienced senior and professional managers and a committed multidisciplinary team. We offer opportunities for ongoing training, professional development and involvement in service improvement. ### Main duties of the job - To provide comprehensive, culturally appropriate, evidence-based assessments to establish client’s needs; level of support and type of interventions required to facilitate their rehabilitation - To manage a small caseload of service users with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs; using evidence based and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment and support for clients in our Boroughs who are registered with a local GP. - To act as a named worker for service users and hold a caseload of nursing-specific clients (usually for medication administration and physical health monitoring). Undertake assessment and care co-ordination activities within a multi-disciplinary framework, in order to identify the needs of service users and to arrange and provide appropriate packages of care within the available budget. - To present cases to the relevant placement panels for in-borough and out-of-borough placements, both for initial funding requests and reviews. - To work proactively with service providers to draw up resettlement plans and carry out regular reviews for clients to assess their progress towards identified goals. - To contribute to service development - To undertake supervisory and appraisal responsibilities for allocated team members - To act as mentor to students on practice placement and to mentor junior members of staff. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - - Experience of working in multi-disciplinary mental health teams with clients with severe and enduring mental health problems - - Knowledge of multi/unidisciplinary care planning processes and multi-agency working - - Work with people experiencing mental health crisis. - - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing and presentations / IT skills. - - Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate a comprehensive care package for the identified client group, using a wide range of resources. - - Able to develop a comprehensive programme of intervention and support for the identified client group and their families - - Advanced skills in risk assessment and management. - - Can demonstrate understanding of psychosis and its impact on service users and carers. - - Demonstrate knowledge of current legislation and guidance applicable to this client group - - Can demonstrate understanding of the needs of diverse groups, e.g. residents of inner city; black and minority ethnic groups, and skills in engaging with them. - - Skills in psychosocial interventions - - Prior experience of working in mental health rehabilitation or assertive outreach **Desirable** - - Basic counselling and group work skills. - - Skills in leadership: ability to motivate others, use initiative and manage change. - - Working with people who use substances - - Audit and research; Teaching. - - Supervision of students and junior staff. ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - - Motivated - - Able to create good relationships with clients, carers, other professionals and other stakeholders - - Work with service users who are difficult to engage with - - Reliable - - Disciplined ### Qualifications and Training **Essential** - - Current professional qualification in Mental Health Nursing - - Registration must be live with the NMC - - Evidence of post registration training and CPD. **Desirable** - - Other relevant training, e.g. substance misuse - - Family Therapy/Work training. - - Training in Psychosocial Interventions or Thorn ## Documents - [jd and ps (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10572353) - [oh requirements (pdf, 304.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3067) - [occupational health requirements (pdf, 376.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3003) ## 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.