Community Mental Health Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Pennington; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a dedicated Community Mental Health Nurse to join their team. The role involves coordinating care for patients with severe mental illnesses and working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams. Candidates must hold Professional Registration with the NMC and have a passion for supporting patient care. The position offers a salary ranging from £38,682 to £46,580 annually, with opportunities for flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Registered mental health nurse with valid NMC registration.
• Car driver with business insurance is essential.
• Experience in delivering evidence-based therapeutic interventions.

Responsibilities

• Act as care co-ordinator for service users with severe mental illness.
• Collaborate within multi-disciplinary teams to ensure safe patient care.
• Formulate care plans and utilize appropriate assessments.

Skills

Mental health care

Care coordination

Patient assessment

Flexible working

Education

Professional Registration with NMC

Tools

Clinical assessment tools

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Community Mental Health Nurse

The closing date is 04 January 2026

Are you a Mental Health Nurse who has a passion to work within OPMH and want to join a friendly team to do this?

The New Forest West Older Persons Community Mental Health Team is based at South Efford House. As a community mental health practitioner your journey will take you around the beautiful New Forest and along the coast delivering high quality care and interventions to our patient group.

There is an opportunity to work within our CMHT pathway working with both organic and functional illness, In reach within our local care homes and nursing homes, and also work within our memory assessment service. If you have a keen interest in any of these areas, then now is the time to join and influence the development and delivery of these pathways to help shape the future excellent standard of care for our patients and their carers.

The supportive leadership team promote the development of our services to provide the best outcomes for our patients and we know that to achieve this we need to invest in our staff through creating a good working environment and providing training opportunities. We are also open to flexible ways of working with hybrid working (a mix of face to face and online/telephone assessments) available to help balance your work and homelife.

If you are interested in this opportunity, then please apply. If you would like an informal chat about this post or would like to come and look round, please contact the team lead, Zoe Wilson on 0300 303 1740.

Main duties of the job

To act as care co-ordinator to an agreed caseload of service users with severe and enduring mental illness.

To participate within the multi-disciplinary professional team in the relevant care group to deliver safe patient care.

To be an active participant in the multi-disciplinary team, formulating care plans and utilising appropriate assessments.

To work in partnership with families and carers to ensure the patient's individual health needs are met.

Understand evidence based therapeutic interventions relevant to the care group to include education, clinical care, wellness recovery action plans and discharge planning.

To participate in regular clinical, professional, and managerial supervision.

To supervise junior staff.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional Registration with current registration appropriate to the job role. NMC registration.
• Car driver with business insurance.

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.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearBased on full time hours