Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Community Mental Health Nurse

Job summary
Are you passionate about supporting individuals with mental health needs? We are looking for a Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse to join our dynamic and diverse community mental health team, to deliver high quality care.

The Bentley House Adult Community Mental Health Hub (CMHH) serves the diverse population of Harrow, who have secondary mental health needs. The post holder will have the opportunity to work in collaboration with a full multidisciplinary team including medical staff, nurses and allied health professionals. The CMHH is a trauma-informed service and operate an intervention-focused model.

The role is a permanent post with an excellent opportunity to develop skills, knowledge and experience in community mental health. This is a full role from Monday - Friday; 9am - 5pm.

Bentley House is based in Harrow; a 5 minute walk from Harrow and Wealdstone station.

Main duties of the job
To be an active member of Harrow CMHH multidisciplinary team and provide individually tailored interventions for a defined caseload of adults of working age, and their families/carers, who have severe and enduring mental illness. To work in a therapeutic, client-centred way and use a range of evidence-based interventions to help promote recovery through individual or joint working with other professionals.

About us
The team are supportive of staff development and wellbeing. The post holder will have access to training opportunities and regular supervision.

Details
Date posted: 09 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £45,953 to £54,254 a year per annum incl. HCAS
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 333-J-HA-0771
Closing date: 23 November 2026

Job locations
Bentley House, 15-21 Headstone Drive, Harrow, HA3 5QX, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• To be accountable for assessment and care planning of a defined caseload of adults of working age, assessing health and social care needs and negotiating care plans with service users and carers.
• To prioritise time and workload flexibly to meet community caseload responsibilities, attend meetings and develop skills through supervision and training.
• To undertake risk assessments according to Trust policy.
• To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and health and social care agencies.
• To participate in delivering group programmes of specific interventions.
• To engage with service users and carers assertively and offer care and interventions within the least restrictive setting, in normal community environments.
• To help clients gain fair and equal access to services, being sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability.
• To offer a range of evidence-based psycho-social interventions and proactive risk management approaches to reduce symptoms and support recovery.
• To ensure CNWL Child Protection Guidelines are understood and to take appropriate action when a child is at risk or in need.
• To monitor treatment, support concordance and take prompt action to alleviate unwanted effects.
• To provide psycho-education and health promotion to service users and families.
• To provide interventions and work with other disciplines in the care of service users experiencing co-morbid substance use/misuse.
• To engage service users and families in relapse prevention and crisis planning, and coordinate interventions to avoid hospitalisation.
• To deliver a flexible and responsive service, including outside normal working hours when necessary.
• If admission to hospital becomes necessary, to provide regular joint inpatient review to transfer or discharge the service user to the least restrictive environment as soon as clinically possible.
• To maintain standards of professional conduct and observe the legal requirements of the MHA (1983), its Code of Practice, The Children Act (1989) and other relevant legislation.

Person specification
Essential experience: Experience of working in a multidisciplinary mental health team with clients with acute/severe and enduring mental health problems.
Essential qualifications: Current professional qualification in mental health nursing with live registration with the professional body.
Essential skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including report writing, presentations and IT skills; highly skilled administering antipsychotic depot medication; skills in risk assessment and management; understanding of psychosis and its impact on service users and carers; knowledge of current legislation and guidance.
Desirable: Audit and research; teaching; work with people in mental health crisis; working with people who use substances; Clozapine Clinic experience; ENB 812/998/SLICE; mentorship; psychosocial interventions training; family therapy training; Care Act 2014 training; phlebotomy training; leadership skills; basic counselling and group work skills; full UK driving licence.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.