NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
Community Nurse
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Job Overview
We are seeking a motivated and compassionate mental health nurse to join our Mental Health & Wellness Team (West), providing high-quality, person-centred care within a community setting. This role offers an exciting opportunity to support individuals experiencing a range of mental health and wellbeing needs, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver timely, responsive, and recovery-focused interventions.
The post holder will play a key role in assessing needs, planning and delivering interventions, and supporting individuals to improve their mental health, resilience, and overall wellbeing. You will work collaboratively with service users, carers, and partner agencies to ensure a holistic approach to care, promoting recovery, independence, and reducing reliance on secondary services.
The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills, sound clinical judgement, and a commitment to delivering safe, effective, and compassionate care.
This role is ideal for someone who is proactive, flexible, and passionate about improving access to mental health support within the community, while contributing to continuous service development and innovation.
Main Duties of the Job
- Working as part of our multi-disciplinary team and coordinating a caseload of service users with complex and challenging needs.
- As a nurse, you will have the opportunity to work within the wellness clinic to deliver physical and mental health interventions.
- Requires good IT skills and knowledge of using electronic recording systems.
- Essential to be willing to work flexibly within the demands of the service.
- Work closely within a multi-disciplinary team and other agencies to deliver recovery-focused health and social care interventions, including managing risk and the Safeguarding of vulnerable adults.
- Expected to provide managerial supervision to junior colleagues, mentor MDT students, and participate in ongoing educational and research programmes.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients, and carers, we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
- We are kind.
- We are respectful.
- We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
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Starting with NELFT
NELFT places a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, which will include mandatory training, systems training, and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health, and wellbeing and key processes.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,870 and a maximum payment of £6,137 - per annum, pro rata).
Use of AI
Please see the attached document regarding acceptable use of AI during the recruitment process.
For Further Details / Informal Visits Contact
- Contact name: Suren Jankee
- Contact job title: Operational Team Lead
- Contact email address: surendr.jankee@nelft.nhs.uk
- Contact telephone number: 03003001570
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