Community Psychiatric Nurse/Care Coordinator | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Croydon; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Care Coordinator / Community Mental Health Nurse to work with service users facing complex mental health challenges. The role offers opportunities for career development and requires excellent self-management and communication skills, along with a relevant professional background in nursing, social work, or occupational therapy. The position supports flexible working options and includes a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Comprehensive pay and pensions package

Flexible working arrangements

Career development programs

Car lease benefits

Key-worker housing options

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in formulating robust and holistic care plans
• Ability to work collaboratively within a team
• Experience managing a caseload of clients with complex mental health difficulties

Responsibilities

• Provide care coordination for community mental health service users
• Work closely with clients and their carers
• Deliver dynamic risk assessments and formulate flexible care plans

Skills

Self-management skills

Communication skills

Dynamic risk assessment

Education

Relevant professional background (Nursing, Social Work, OT)

Job description

Croydon Community Mental Health Service (CMHT) have undergone service transformation to enhance the quality of our service delivery, improve the experiences of those using our services, maintain staff morale and to ensure services are meeting the NHS Long Term Plan.

It is an exciting time to be part of this transformation in Croydon, getting involved in improved ways of working due to investment in resources. The Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) is a generic team integrated with Croydon Social Care in working with all adults experiencing severe and enduring mental illness.

The teams are no longer based on diagnosis and work with all individuals from a locality who have mental health needs that require support from secondary care. Croydon CMHT has 3 localities: NORTH, CENTRAL and SOUTH. Our Locality Teams are highly experienced and supportive and multi-disciplinary.

We are looking for enthusiastic care coordinators that will grow and develop with the locality teams from Nursing, Social work, and OT professional background.

This advert is for vacancies in the NORTH LOCALITY TEAM.

In keeping with our obligations under the new Coronavirus Regulations 2021 in relation to Care Home visits, the successful candidate will be required to provide evidence of full vaccination status against Covid-19.

The post holder will work as Care Coordinator / Community Mental Health Nurse for a caseload of service users in the local community who have complex mental health difficulties, and work with their carers where applicable. The post holder will be expected to have excellent self-management skills, and work collaboratively within the team. The post holder must be able to formulate flexible, robust and holistic care plans with service users and/or carers, to work well under pressure, be experienced in dynamic risk assessment, and to have excellent communication skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
• Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as part‑time working and job sharing.
• Career development – there are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes.
• Car lease – our staff benefit from competitive deals to lease cars.
• Accommodation – our staff benefits from key‑worker housing available on selected sites.
• NHS discounts – with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well‑known retail brands through the Health Service Discounts website.
• We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. For this role, we offer career pathways to Senior Clinical Practitioner or Clinical Team Leader. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in Leadership and MSC programme.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

This advert closes on Friday 21 Nov 2025.