Registered Mental Health Nurse Band 5-6 Development Post

Are you an ambitious band 6? If so, please apply for this exciting post. We support flexible working. Are you looking to work in a team that allows you to feel empowered and proud to be a Nurse? To work in an environment that will allow you to develop and flourish as a practitioner? Then the North Kensington Community Mental Health Hub (KCCMHH) might just have what you're looking for. KCCMHH is looking to deliver high quality, evidence‑based nursing interventions to our patients in the highly diverse areas of Kensington and Chelsea. In return we will offer you CNWL's highly regarded training and development pathway to develop you into a more highly skilled practitioner.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working in our healthcare settings. Interview date – 2 or 3 February 2026.

As a Community Nurse, you will be the linked worker for a caseload of patients offering assessments and interventions to promote recovery.

• Flexible Working – opportunities around condensed hours, working from home/hybrid working and flexible hours to provide a healthy work‑life balance.
• On‑site shadowing opportunities with our HTT, CMHT, Psych Liaison services to allow you to build relations and broaden your horizons.
• Enhanced supervision and career mapping to ensure continuous professional development, supporting you to explore opportunities such as Advanced Clinical Practitioner role and Nurse Prescribing Training opportunities including CBT, DBT, Family Interventions, venepuncture, ECG interpretation and many more!
• Hidden Gem, annual award ceremonies and award‑winning Staff Networks that have thousands of members and exciting events.
• Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme.

• In this development post, you will be provided additional supervision and support as well as community specific training.
• You will be working in a team that prides itself on promoting innovation and working to the highest standards of clinical care as evidenced by the services ongoing Quality Improvement Projects.
• Commitment from the team to develop you as a practitioner by offering coaching, supervision development, reflective practice and in‑house development sessions.
• The KCCMHH is located in exciting and vibrant areas of London; with the North Hub situated near the culturally diverse Portobello Road.
• All patients that come under the Hub are within walking distance so as well as loving your job you will also achieve your daily step goals! And as a Trust we love to promote wellbeing!

• To be accountable for the care and support of a defined caseload of adults of working age.
• To screen for health and social care needs (including accommodation, finances, and support in accessing education, training or employment) and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers.
• To undertake risk assessments and develop robust risk management plans, according to Trust policy.
• To safely administer and store medication as needed in the community and ensure that relevant Pharmacy guidelines and policies are adhered to.
• To monitor treatment, support concordance and ensure prompt action is taken to alleviate unwanted effects of prescribed medication.
• To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi‑disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies, within the DIALOG+ framework.
• To engage with service users and carers assertively and offer care/interventions within the least restrictive setting, in normal community environments.
• To help clients gain fair and equal access to services, through choice and social inclusion and being sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity and gender, sexuality and disability.
• To offer a range of evidence‑based psycho‑social interventions and pro‑active risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis and enable, as far as possible, full and sustained recovery.
• To ensure CNWL Child Protection Guidelines and Safeguarding Children and Adult procedures are fully understood by self and others.
• To ensure the safety needs of children and adults are met at all times and take appropriate action when a child or adult is felt to be at risk or in need.
• To provide access to, and ongoing, psycho‑education and health promotion regarding illness, disability and health to service users and families.
• To provide interventions and to work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co‑morbidity problems with substance use/misuse.
• To engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention and crisis planning, provide, and coordinate interventions that maximise the service users ability to resolve crises, remain at home and avoid the need for hospitalisation.
• To deliver a flexible and responsive service through working practices that are dictated by service user/carer need and contribute to the provision of service continuity including outside normal working hours when necessary.
• To receive referrals from GPs and undertake comprehensive psycho‑social mental health assessments to establish care needs.
• To identify where best those needs can be met and facilitate signposting, onward referral or rapid access to relevant professionals and services and/or to provide support/advice to the referring GP on effective management.
• To act as a contact point and provide a link/liaison role to GP practices with regard to patients with more complex mental health problems and/or co‑morbidity.
• To ensure early detection and fast tracking of clients with severe mental health problems.
• To provide a range of appropriate short and longer term, evidence based, psycho‑social interventions for clients with more complex and severe, enduring mental illnesses (SMI) with the aim of preventing deterioration, relapse and longer‑term intervention from mental health services and to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis with the aim of achieving, as far as possible, a full and sustained recovery.
• To prioritise time and workload, in a flexible manner to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training.
• To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi‑disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies.
• To ensure that the principles of personalisation and individualised choice are inherent in the assessment and care planning process, including maximising service users access to direct payments and personal budgets.
• To identify appropriate resources, including residential and nursing placements and follow the Local Authority policy and procedures in order to access such services.
• To support the wider team as necessary in providing regular comprehensive review of placements and services commissioned by the Local Authority for service users, in line with Local Authority policy and procedures.
• To provide access to, and ongoing, psycho‑education and health promotion regarding illness, disability and health to service users and families.
• To ensure Safeguarding Children and Adult procedures are fully understood by self and others.
• To ensure the safety needs of children and adults are met at all times and take appropriate action when a child or adult is felt to be at risk or in need.
• To provide interventions and to work with other disciplines/agencies/teams in the care of service users experiencing co‑morbidity problems with substance use/misuse.
• To engage the service user and their family in relapse prevention and crisis planning, provide, and coordinate interventions that maximise the service users ability to resolve crises, remain at home and avoid the need for hospitalisation.
• To understand the social factors which are relevant to mental health problems and to be aware of and respectful of the cultures, customs, values and spiritual/religious practices and beliefs of all clients, regardless of age, culture, ethnicity and gender, sexuality and disability.
• To support the safe step down of patients not currently requiring mental health services, with a focus on enabling GP practices to provide effective, continuing care and to ensure access to support in terms wider social and social inclusion/self‑management needs.
• To prioritise time and workload, in a flexible manner to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training.
• If admission to hospital becomes necessary, to provide regular, formal, joint inpatient review to ensure the service user is transferred/discharged to the lowest stigma/least restrictive environment as soon as clinically possible.
• To maintain standards of professional conduct at all times and observe the legal requirements of the MHA (1983), its Code of Practice, The Children Act (1989), The Mental Capacity Act (2005), Care Act (2014) and other relevant legislation and guidance.