Community Psychiatric Nurse

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Leatherhead; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexi-Bank system

Training and development support

Competitive shift rates

Job summary

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse on a Flexi-Bank contract based in Leatherhead. The role supports Surrey mental health services, offering flexible bank shifts Monday to Friday with supervision by the Temporary Staffing Team.

The post involves autonomous community nursing, collaborative working with primary care, and delivering high-quality mental health care to adults in the NEH/Farnham area. It is a bank position with a two-month contract.

Qualifications

• Experience in community mental health nursing desirable.
• Previous community nursing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Discharge professional responsibilities under Mental Health Act and MCA; act as a role model.
• Provide assessment, nurse diagnosis and treatment options; liaise with Primary Care.
• Deliver high-quality community nursing for older people with mental health problems in a multi-professional framework; lone working when needed.
• Prescribe services meeting user/carer needs in coordination with others.
• Attend MDT meetings and participate in duty rota; manage referrals through CMHT allocation.
• Ensure safe storage and recording of medicines; administer IM injections and oral meds per guidelines.
• Act as Care Coordinator/Lead Professional for named individuals within CARE Programme Approach.

Education

NMC Registration RMN/RN (Mental Health)

Mentorship course OR equivalent

Job description

Main area Community Psychiatric Nurse Grade Band 6 Contract Bank: 2 months (Monday to Friday 9:00 AM to 17:00 PM) Hours Flexible working - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9 AM to 5 PM) Job ref 384-SM-CPN - B6

Employer Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site 18 Mole Business Park Town Leatherhead Salary £25.83 Per hour Salary period Hourly Closing 18/11/2026 23:59

Community Psychiatric Nurse

Band 6

Job overview

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: 18 Mole Business Park, Randalls Rd, Leatherhead KT22 7AD

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 Overview
To work within a community team based within the NEH& Farnham area working in partnershipwith statutory and voluntary sector to facilitate whole system approach to care delivery. The PostHolder will act as Care Coordinator/Lead Professional, where appropriate, to patients who requirethe skills of a Mental Health Nurse, and provide a holistic, clinical autonomous nursing service, toenable individuals to engage in the best standards of care available.

Working Pattern: Monday to Friday from 9AM to 5PM

Location: 18 Mole Business Park, Randalls Rd, Leatherhead KT22 7AD

Working for our organisation

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 organisation 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To discharge professional responsibilities under the Mental Health Act (1983) and revisedsubsequent act Mental Capacity Act (2005) and the NMC Professional Code of Conductat all times and be a positive role model.
• The Post Holder will support Primary Care in management of people presenting with mentalhealth problems by offering assessment, nurse diagnosis and treatment options and will liaise
  with Primary Care professionals, through regular informal and formal meetings.
• To deliver a high-quality community nursing service to Older People with mental healthproblems, in a multi – professional framework and the ability to lone work adhering to localand Trust policies.
• To prescribe services that meets the user/carer needs, in conjunction with others.
• To attendand prepare reports, for MDT meetings and to participate in the Team’s DUTY Rota system.
• To ensure the safe storage and recording of medicines within the clinical area.
• To administer intramuscular injections (depots), as prescribed according to Trust and National guidelinesand policies and to ensure the safe delivery if oral medications to clients, in the domesticenvironment according to Trust guidelines and policies.
• To act as Key Worker/Care Coordinator or Lead Professional for named individuals, within the Care Programme Approach process, including Single Assessment
• To provide high standards of care, which are delivered in a professional manner and care delivered is based on best practice and is regularly reviewed and to refer to other professional
  services, according to assessment of need.
• To attend and ensure all referrals are passed through CMHT allocation meeting andassessed for acceptance to the specialist team and act as support and specialist advisor to
  the primary care services, including the Surrey Heath ICT.
• To ensure all records and reports are kept up-to-date, and up to the standard expected of aBand 6 Clinician, in accordance with the Caldicott Report.
• Be responsible for the continuous overall management of a defined caseload and to receiveand give clinical and management supervision/guidance to supervise and mentor juniors,including students/other staff in the delivery of care and treatment to individuals and groups.
• To provide information to the Line Manager, if any incidents that may affect the standing orrunning of the service and be able to utilize the Incident reporting system.
• Report all complaints and/or incidents relating to clients, relatives and or staff within area as directed inaccordance with the Trust’s Complaints Procedure, and ensure the Team Leader is informed.
  To co-operate with any investigations carried out.
• To develop close working relationships with voluntary/statutory services, in particular SocialServices and members of the Primary Care Team and participate in the system of integrated
  team working within the Surrey Health Integrated Care Team.
• To support care and nursing homes in caring for their residents, who have mental healthproblems
• To ensure the Post Holder has developed a personal learning plan through approval with their supervisor, thus maintaining high standard based on best practice and educate and train
  junior staff / student nurses and other professionals around competencies of a CommunityMental Health Nurse
• To use the Trust Clinical record system and other IT systems as appropriate.
• To act as a health advisor/educator within primary and secondary care for individuals,agencies, relatives, carers and staff. Advise on issues of physical and mental health, toengender a positive approach to health.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NMC Registration as RMN/RN (Mental Health)
• Successful completion of Mentorship course OR equivalent

Experience

• Previous experience of working in the Community minimum one year

Knowledge

• Systemone

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.