Closing date: 18 November 2026

Job summary
Are you passionate about supporting people with complex mental health needs to achieve their recovery goals? Join our positive, supportive multidisciplinary team at the Springwell Centre, Barnet Hospital, and help make a meaningful difference to people's lives in the community.

As a Band 6 Community psychiatric nurse/ Care Coordinator, you will manage a caseload, undertake comprehensive assessments and develop personalised care plans alongside service users and their carers. Working closely with colleagues and partner agencies, you will deliver recovery-focused care for people experiencing psychosis and complex mental health needs, promoting wellbeing, independence and social inclusion. You will also contribute to the supervision and development of junior colleagues and students.

We are looking for a registered Mental Health Nurse, with significant post-registration experience, including experience supporting people with severe and complex mental health problems. You will bring strong communication, assessment and care coordination skills, experience of community working and a commitment to collaborative, person-centred care. Please refer to the person specification for the full essential and desirable criteria.

Join a team that values mutual respect, open communication and working together. The role offers regular clinical and caseload supervision, opportunities for professional development, and access to the Trust's staff wellbeing initiatives and support networks.

Main duties of the job
As a Band 6 Community Nurse within the Barnet Community Rehabilitation Team, based at Springwell Centre, Barnet Hospital, you will provide specialist, recovery-focused care for people experiencing psychosis and complex mental health needs. You will take responsibility for managing a caseload, completing comprehensive assessments and coordinating care within a multidisciplinary framework. Working collaboratively with service users and carers, you will develop personalised care plans that reflect individual needs, preferences, goals and aspirations. Plans will be reviewed regularly and adapted to changing circumstances, promoting independence, self-management and social inclusion. The role involves delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions, including psychoeducation and approaches such as CBT, within your professional competence. You will provide clear information to help service users and carers make informed decisions about treatment and care. Where appropriate to your professional role, you will administer medication and monitor its effects and side effects in accordance with professional standards and Trust policies. You will support vocational rehabilitation and meaningful occupation, helping service users access opportunities that contribute to recovery. Close liaison with GPs, inpatient and community services, local authorities, social care colleagues and voluntary organisations will ensure coordinated support.

About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Details
Date posted: 04 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £45,953 to £54,254 a year per annum including HCAS
Contract: Secondment
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 455-NLFT-8383109
Job locations: Springwell Centre Barnet Hospital, Wellhouse Lane, Barnet, EN5 3DJ, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
The Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse/Care Coordinator will work within the Barnet Community Rehabilitation Team, based at Springwell Centre, Barnet Hospital. As part of a positive, supportive multidisciplinary team, the postholder will provide specialist care for people experiencing psychosis and complex mental health needs, supporting recovery, wellbeing and independence. The postholder will manage a caseload and act as care coordinator, undertaking comprehensive assessments and developing personalised care plans collaboratively with service users and carers. Care will reflect individual needs, preferences and recovery goals, with regular reviews to respond to changing circumstances and promote self-management and social inclusion. Responsibilities include delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions, such as psychoeducation and CBT-informed approaches, within professional competence. The postholder will provide accessible information about treatment, administer medication and monitor effects and side effects in accordance with NMC standards and Trust policies. They will contribute to depot and clozapine clinics and undertake phlebotomy where appropriately trained and competent. The role involves comprehensive risk assessment, implementing risk management plans and responding promptly to safeguarding concerns. The postholder will maintain accurate, timely clinical records, protect confidentiality and meet administrative and reporting requirements. Close collaboration with GPs, inpatient services, community teams, social care, employment services and voluntary organisations will support coordinated care. The postholder will facilitate vocational rehabilitation and meaningful occupation, helping service users progress towards their aspirations. They will supervise junior colleagues, support students and undertake delegated leadership responsibilities, including deputising for senior nursing colleagues when required. Participation in audits, research and service development will contribute to improving care standards and outcomes. The postholder will maintain professional registration, attend supervision and training, and pursue continuing professional development. They will work flexibly across locations according to service needs, follow Trust policies and promote respectful communication, collaborative working and a recovery-focused approach. They will also provide specialist mental health advice and education.

Person Specification
Qualifications/ Registrations

• Essential: Registered Mental Health Nurse with 2 years post qualification.
• Desirable: Relevant qualification in Psychosocial Interventions with people with severe and enduring mental health problems.

Skills/ Abilities

• Essential: Significant years post registration experience, at least one of which will be working with people with severe and complex mental health problems.
• Desirable: Experience of teaching, training and/or mentoring
• Essential: A good working knowledge of the specific health risks that those affected by complex needs.
• Desirable: Experience and knowledge of group processes and facilitating groups.
• Essential: Ability to work under pressure in acute situations with minimal supervision

Experience/ Knowledge

• Essential: Understanding of current issues informing the Health Agenda.
• Essential: Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, highly technical, and clinically sensitive information to patients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues within a dynamic environment.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Springwell Centre Barnet Hospital, Wellhouse Lane, Barnet, EN5 3DJ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Team Manager Barnet Community Rehabilitation Team, Patricia Wallhead, patricia.wallhead2@nhs.net, 07909448031

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