Community Psychiatric Nurse

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; New Milton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Psychiatric Nurse to join a small, friendly team in the New Forest area on the Hampshire/Dorset border. The role focuses on recovery-oriented community care, with flexible and remote working considered where possible.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care, delivering psychological and medication support, developing collaborative care plans, and ensuring risk management.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse specialising in mental health.
• Commitment to continuing professional development and mandatory training.
• Mentorship qualification or willingness to obtain one.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care with service users and carers.
• Provide psychological and medication support.
• Develop collaborative care plans including risk and crisis management.
• Engage with MDT and leadership for guidance and supervision.

Skills

Registered Nurse

Mental Health Practitioner

Mentorship qualification

Training and development

Education

Nurse registration

Job description

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Community Psychiatric Nurse

The closing date is 15 November 2026

We are looking for enthusiastic, experienced, innovative mental health nurses who are committed to the principles of recovery. We are a small, friendly team who believe in working together and supporting each other in managing complex cases. We are based in the scenic area of the New Forest and are situated on the Hampshire and Dorset boarder, so would welcome applications from those living outside of Hampshire or who are looking to relocate.

If you are a highly motivated, enthusiastic, flexible, resourceful and resilient individual who is committed to providing care with compassion to service users in their recovery, the CMHT is the place to work. We believe in delivering specific episodes of care to empower people to work towards recovery.

Due to the current skill mix in the team we are only open to male applicants in order to ensure we maintain a sufficient skill mix for service delivery. We have a well established multi disciplinary team including, team manager, team leader, consultant psychiatrists, psychologists, Independent Nurse Prescribers, RMN's, support time recovery workers, carers officers and employment support.

We are happy to consider flexible working requests and remote working where possible. We are operational Monday to Friday.

We believe in supporting our staff to develop in the careers through training and you will receive regular clinical and management supervision. We also run monthly reflective practice, education slots and safeguarding supervision.

Main duties of the job

The role of the care coordinator is to have an agreed caseload, working collaboratively with service users and carers. There is a wide range of interventions that can be offered which may include psychological interventions, medication support, access to group work and carers support. We aim to engage service users creatively, develop collaborative care plans including risk management plans, care plans and crisis contingency plans. You will have access to the MDT and a leadership team to receive support and guidance when required.

You will need robust assessment skills to enable the team to deliver high quality care and treatment plans. Excellent communication skills are also essential to enable you to be a role model for others, as well as positively representing the team and the organisation as a whole.

We are looking for those with good communications skills and work well in a multi disciplinary team. We are keen for staff to take leadership roles where appropriate and to provide supervision to other members of the team.

You must also be able to liaise effectively with other services, both internal and external to HIOW Health Foundation NHS Trust, retaining service user focus at the heart of any clinical decision making to ensure the best outcome.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

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

• Registered Nurse, Mental Health Practitioner.
• Recognised Mentorship qualification.
• Able to attend and participate in all statutory & mandatory training events to enhance continued professional development
• Willingness to complete further studies as necessary to meet service delivery requirements.

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

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearBased on full time hours