Job summary
Our Community Mental Health Team is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Band 5 Community Mental Health Nurse to join our supportive and established team.

If you're looking for a new challenge and want to develop your career within a service committed to professional growth, we would love to hear from you. We offer excellent in-house training and development opportunities within a welcoming multidisciplinary team.

B&P CMHT covers Bordon, Petersfield and the Strawberry Primary Care Network in Havant. We are an innovative team dedicated to providing responsive, safe, effective and compassionate mental health care.

We welcome applications from experienced nurses and newly qualified nurses looking to begin their career within community mental health services.

What we offer

• Supportive and experienced team environment.
• Professional development and career progression opportunities.
• Access to in-house training programmes.
• Opportunity to make a real difference to people experiencing mental health difficulties.

Essential requirement

• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.

For an informal discussion, please contact Emma Turnbull, Service Manager, on 02382 310200.

Main duties of the job

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of a specific group of service users
• To supervise mentor and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students
• To co-ordinate care for a specified group of service users

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details
Date posted: 20 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year Based on full time hours
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 348-PSE-12948
Job locations: Petersfield Hospital, Swan Street, Petersfield, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU32 3LB, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Qualifications

• Essential: Registered Mental Health Nurse*; Computer skills; Successful completion of preceptorship
• Desirable: 6 to 12 m experience post qualifying Mentorship course; Clinical supervision training; Ability to travel; Knowledge of another language

Experience

• Essential: Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding; Good facilitation skills; Evidence of effective interpersonal skills (active listening, building empathy); Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks; Ability to motivate service users; Ability to recognise and respond to behaviour that challenges; Working knowledge of the application of the NMC Code of Conduct
• Desirable: Able to co-facilitate group work; Able to carryout supervision of staff; Physical stamina; Phlebotomy trained

Additional Criteria

• Essential: Demonstrate evidence of team working; Able to take direction and instruction; Honest and Trustworthy; Aware of personal and professional boundaries; Respect for service users; An understanding of the importance of service user involvement in their own care and care plan; Belief that service users can achieve; Able to attend a five-day full time induction programme
• Desirable: Well presented, confident, respectful, self reliant, aware of personal boundaries, resourceful, imaginative, enthusiastic, adaptable, affable

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 NHS Careers website.

Employer contact details
Hiring Manager: Emma Turnbull, emma.turnbull@nhs.net, 02382310200

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