West London NHS Trust
Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN)
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Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) Position
Thank you for your interest in the Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) position within our H&F Assertive Engagement and Rehabilitation Team.
Please read the Job Description and Person Specification carefully to ensure you meet the essential criteria and hold the relevant current professional registration. This post is currently ring-fenced for nursing applicants only.
About the Role
West London NHS Trust’s Community Rehabilitation Services are undergoing an exciting period of development, with the integration of an assertive outreach function. The successful candidate will work across both rehabilitation and assertive outreach pathways.
We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic mental health nurse with experience in psychosocial rehabilitation and a passion for service development.
Key Responsibilities
- Support People with Complex Mental Health Needs: You will support people with complex mental health needs to achieve recovery, greater independence, and improved quality of life.
- Excellent Communication and Clinical Decision-Making: The role requires excellent communication, clinical decision-making, risk management, multidisciplinary working, and the ability to engage individuals who may find it difficult to access or maintain contact with services.
- Assessments and Interventions: To provide comprehensive, culturally appropriate, evidence-based assessments to establish client’s needs; level of support and type of interventions required to facilitate their rehabilitation.
- Caseload Management: To manage a small caseload of service users with complex, severe, and enduring mental health needs; using evidence-based and recovery principles to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate treatment and support for clients in our Boroughs who are registered with a local GP.
- Named Worker for Service Users: To act as a named worker for service users and hold a caseload of nursing-specific clients (usually for medication administration and physical health monitoring). Undertake assessment and care coordination activities within a multi-disciplinary framework, in order to identify the needs of service users and to arrange and provide appropriate packages of care within the available budget.
- Placement Panels: To present cases to the relevant placement panels for in-borough and out-of-borough placements, both for initial funding requests and reviews.
- Resettlement Plans: To work proactively with service providers to draw up resettlement plans and carry out regular reviews for clients to assess their progress towards identified goals.
- Service Development: To contribute to service development.
- Supervisory and Appraisal Responsibilities: To undertake supervisory and appraisal responsibilities for allocated team members.
- Mentorship: To act as a mentor to students on practice placement and to mentor junior members of staff.
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About West London NHS Trust
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West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
- High Secure Services: Our high secure services care for patients from South of England.
- Low and Medium Secure Services: We provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs.
- Mental and Physical Healthcare: The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow, and Hammersmith & Fulham).
- Staff and Turnover: We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m.
- Ratings: The Trust is rated as ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as ‘Outstanding’.
Integration and Development
The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Martin Morgan
- Job Title: Tri-borough Community Rehab Manager
- Email Address: martin.morgan5@nhs.net
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