Community Psychiatric Nurse

NHS Highland; Oban; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Highland invites applications for a Band 6 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join the enhanced community dementia team in Argyll & Bute. This role focuses on locality-based specialist dementia care across pre-, peri- and post-diagnostic stages.

You will lead in clinical assessment, care planning with service users and carers, and work within a multidisciplinary team to improve rapid access to diagnosis, prevent crisis and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions.

Qualifications

• RMHN with current NMC registration and experience in dementia care.
• Strong clinical assessment and care planning skills.
• Evidence of leadership and multidisciplinary team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate rapid access to diagnosis, treatment, and crisis intervention.
• Reduce avoidable hospital admissions and support timely discharge.
• Lead care planning in partnership with service users and carers.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Leadership

Care planning

Partnership working

Crisis intervention

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job description

We are looking to recruit a Band 6 CPN to our service within the enhanced community dementia team.

The service is currently in an exciting period of growth and transformation, to provide locality based specialist dementia care for pre, peri and post diagnostic dementia care and support.

This is an interesting and exciting opportunity that will provide you with a challenging and rewarding role within the multi professional dementia team and the opportunity to be part of shaping this developing service. We will expect you to have well-developed clinical assessment skills, leadership skills, an ability to compile care plans in partnership with service users and carers.

The priorities of this post will be to facilitate rapid access to a diagnosis, treatment, crisis prevention and intervention along with preventing avoidable hospital admissions and assisting with timely discharge from hospital.

The service comprises of three teams staffed with mental health nurses, occupational therapists, social workers, senior health care support workers and Alzheimer Scotland post diagnostic link workers. All of the teams are an integral part of the Argyll and Bute Enhanced Community Dementia service and work jointly with Community Health Services, Mental Health, Primary Care and other agencies including social care.

Informal enquires should be made to Carol Jones, Clinical Services Manager,

Please be advised,This role does not meet the eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visaor a Heath and Care Worker visa. NHS Highland is unable to provide candidates with a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS).

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

• Effective from 1st April 2026, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reduced from 37 to 36 hours. Part-time hours will be adjusted on a pro‑ratio basis. There will be an increase in the hourly rate to ensure that pay remains unaffected.
• Applications are welcome from Gaelic speakers. / Tha fàilte air tagraidhean bho luchdl

NHS Highland is geographically the largest of the 14 regional boards of NHS Scotland, covering an area of 12,500 square miles, across Highland and Argyll & Bute.

We employ over 10,700 people, making us one of the biggest employers in the area. As an organisation, we make a very significant contribution to the local economy.

Our staff are also important members of our communities. Our greatest asset is our workforce, and the way we go about our work comes from the values and behaviours we demonstrate on a daily basis. As a board we strive to ensure the environment is conducive to nurturing a positive culture, supported and delivered through .