Community Psychiatric Nurse
Company: Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Job ID: C9384-26-0980

Important Information for Applicants
This vacancy is for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SaBP). This role is offered through Flexi-Bank, a collaborative temporary staffing service delivered in partnership between Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust. Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust acts as the host provider and manages the recruitment, onboarding and administrative processes on behalf of Surrey and Borders.

Please note that although Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust branding may appear on this advert and within the recruitment system, successful applicants for this vacancy will undertake bank shifts for Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Work Location: NE Hants CMHRS, Aldershot Centre for Health, Hospital Hill, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 1AY

Why join Flexi-Bank?

• Work flexibly - choose shifts that suit your lifestyle and availability
• Access more opportunities - pick up shifts across mental health and community
• 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

Main duties of the job
Job Purpose: Surrey and borders is looking for someone to make better live by ensuring an accessible, non-stigmatizing, localized service that contributes to the continuing care and rehabilitation of people within the locality with established mental health illness.

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 services users
• To participate in the recruitment, deployment and management of staff

This role is 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.

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 also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

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.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Would you like to work in an organization that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Details
Date posted: 05 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £25.83 an hour
Contract: Bank
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 384-SVM-CPN-Band 6

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.
• Provide psychosocial interventions
• To deliver individual and group therapy utilising psychosocial interventions 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 act in a manner to respect customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs.
• 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.
• There is a frequent requirement for concentration where the work pattern is unpredictable e.g. responding to unpredictable patient behavior, crisis situations and incidents that require immediate responses.

Person Specification
Qualifications (Essential)

• Professional Qualification in Mental Health Nursing or Occupational Therapy or Social Work.
• Professional registration such as NMC/HCPC

Experience (Essential)

• Further professional training or experience to post graduate diploma level or equivalent experience of looking after people in the Community.
• 2 years' experience post qualification
• Aware of personal and professional boundaries
• Clinical supervision training
• Ability to complete Memory assessments and care Coordinate

Knowledge (Desirable)

• System 1

Employer details
Employer name: Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Address: NE Hants CMHRS, Aldershot Centre for Health, Hospital Hill, Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 1AY
Employer's website: https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact: Lovemore Munowenyu, Manager, Lovemore.munowenyu@sabp.nhs.uk

Post subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975; a Disclosure and Barring Service check is required. Applicants requiring Skilled Worker sponsorship are welcome to apply and will be considered alongside all other applications. Applicants must hold current UK professional registration.