Community Psychiatric Nurse
Company: Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Job ID: C9384-26-0902

Why join the Flexi-Bank?

• Work flexibly - choose shifts that suit your lifestyle and availability
• Access more opportunities - pick up shifts across mental health, community and acute care settings
• Get paid fairly and on time - competitive rates and fast access to earnings through Stream
• Stay supported - benefit from training, development and guidance from our dedicated Temporary Staffing Team
• Be part of something bigger - join a growing collaborative of NHS Trusts across Surrey

Main duties of the job
Job Overview - To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of a specific group of people who use our services.

• To mentor, supervise and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students
• To lead the care for a specified group of service users
• To participate in the recruitment, deployment and management of staff

Suitable for someone who is passionate about ensuring a high quality holistic approach to the care and support provided to clients in the community who have been identified as in need of community nurse support to enable them to exercise choice over their own lives.

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday from 9AM to 5PM
Location: Horizon House, Epsom, KT17 4QJ

About us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We provide support to a population of 1.3 million across 140 services.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Key Responsibilities

• To lead the clinical management of a care package to an individual who uses our services.
• To co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person centered healthcare to a designated group of people who use our services, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate.
• To deliver individual and group therapy utilizing CBT skills.
• To work as a member of the MDT in assessing and planning care and responding to changes in people who use our services health.
• To ensure provision of the necessary physical care to help people who use our services i.e.: personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, personal environment, manual handling, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations.
• To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these.
• To ensure provision of therapeutic activities, emotional support and stability to clients to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries.
• To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery.
• To ensure prescribed physical observations are undertaken as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and act upon exceptions appropriately.

Communication

• To accurately record all contacts with service users in case notes in line with SABP record keeping policy.
• To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives and carers, visitors, staff and others.
• To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
• To develop measures to improve communications where barriers exist.
• To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to People who use our services.
• To communicate with people in a manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background.

Quality

• To lead the development, maintenance and monitoring of service standards, collect and collate data/information effectively for the purpose of audit, research and service performance.
• To identify, implement and evaluate, with others, areas for potential service improvement and to agree further action.
• To develop, with others, measures for service standards, including benchmarking, and to identify areas for potential service improvement.
• To contribute to the maintenance, monitoring and implementation of service standards and policies.
• To promote shared decision making with service user/relatives/carers, as appropriate, involvement in all aspects of their care.
• To contribute and make suggestions to the improvement of services.
• To identify issues of concern at work and alerting appropriate personnel.
• To present a positive image of the team, service and trust.
• To work effectively in own team and as part of the whole organization.
• To ensure the availability of clinical supervision and preceptorship.
• To ensure structures are in place for effective appraisal, personal development and performance management and audit these regularly.
• To assess and plan care in a manner that is consistent with the Evidence based practice, policies and procedures and the management of risk.

Risk Assessment

• To understand the range of risks potentially faced by the service user group.
• To undertake risk assessments and management strategies in line with trust and local policies, and ensure the delivery of care within same.
• To recognize potential crisis situations and act responsively and responsibly to resolve the situation, seeking assistance if required.
• To contribute to the CPA process and to support service users relatives/carers and other agencies within this process.
• To be aware of the potential for vulnerability to abuse amongst the service users/families, and use of the local policy to inform appropriate personnel in line with safeguarding vulnerable adults and children and SABP Policies.
• To take all possible precautions to safeguard the welfare and safety of staff, service users, visitors and the public, by implementing all policies related to health, safety, security and risk.
• To identify and address health education issues that cause risks relevant to service user group.
• To ensure the safe custody of all patients in accordance with their Leave status as defined by the Responsible Medical Officer. This includes the supervision of patients within the community.

Professional/Personal Development

• To utilize in clinical supervision, and appraisal in enhancing performance development.
• To identify ones own development needs and set personal development objective in collaboration with the appraiser.
• To adhere to the Nursing and Midwifery council code of professional conduct for nurses.
• To ensure attendance at all SABP essential training.
• To demonstrate the achievement of competencies through the collection of evidence within a personal portfolio.
• To participate in the orientation and induction of all new staff.
• To contribute to the experience of learners and to ensure delivery of mentorship requirements meeting NMC standards for nursing students.

Management

• To participate in the recruitment, deployment and management of staff in line with SABP policy.
• To lead the development, maintenance and monitoring of service standards, collect and collate data/information effectively for the purpose of audit, research and service performance.
• To identify, implement and evaluate, with others, areas for potential service improvement and agrees further action.
• To ensure structures are in place for effective appraisal, personal development and performance management and audit these regularly.
• To assist the team leader in ensuring a safe roster in the clinical area.
• To assess and plan care in a manner that is consistent with evidence based practice, policies and procedures and the management of risk.
• To take all possible precautions to safeguard the welfare and safety of staff, service users, visitors and the public, by implementing all policies related to health, safety, security and risk.
• To ensure compliance by self and staff of the Trusts Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions, Policies, Procedures and Guidelines, including taking all reasonable steps to manage and promote a healthy working and diverse working environment.
• To adhere to professional confidentiality standards.

Person Specification
Qualifications (Essential)

• NMC Registration as RN or RMN
• Successful completion of Mentorship Course

Experience

• Essential: Further training or experience to post graduate diploma level or 5 years equivalent experience
• Essential: 2 year's experience post qualification
• Essential: Aware of personal and professional boundaries
• Essential: Clinical supervision training
• Desirable: SystemOne

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.

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.

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

Employer details
Employer name: Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Horizon Centre, Epsom, KT17 4QJ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact: Pip Gordon (Manager), Pip.gordon@sabp.nhs.uk

Reference number: 384-SM-CPN - B6
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Date posted: 19 October 2026

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