Community Mental Health Nurse - Bordon and Petersfield
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustPetersfield, South East
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust based in Petersfield. The advertised salary is £32,073 to £39,043. Applications close on 1 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Our Community Mental Health Team is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Band 5 Community Mental Health Nurse to join our supportive and establish...
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of a specific group of service users
To supervise mentor and teach qualified and unqualified staff including students
To co-ordinate care for a specified group of service users
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.
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
Essential: - Registered Mental Health Nurse*; - Computer skills; - Successful completion of preceptorship
Desirable: - 6 to 12 m experience post qualifying Mentorship course; - Clinical supervision training; - Ability to travel; - Knowledge of another language
Essential: - Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding; - Good facilitation skills; - Evidence of effective interpersonal skills (active listening, building empathy); - Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks; - Ability to motivate service users; - Ability to recognise and respond to behaviour that challenges; - Working knowledge of the application of the NMC Code of Conduct
Desirable: - Able to co-facilitate group work; - Able to carryout supervision of staff.; - Physical stamina; - Phlebotomy trained
Essential: - Demonstrate evidence of team working; - Able to take direction and instruction.; - Honest and Trustworthy; - Aware of personal and professional boundaries; - Respect for service users; - An understanding of the importance of service user involvement in their own care and care plan; - Belief that service users can achieve; - Able to attend a five-day full time induction programme.
Desirable: - Well presented, confident, respectful, self reliant, aware of personal boundaries, resourceful, imaginative, enthusiastic, adaptable, affable.
How this role compares
We hold 1,160 NHS vacancies in South East that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £39,959. This role pays less than about 67% of them.
There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,943 of them in South East.
You have 11 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 14 days, so this is about the usual amount of time.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has 105 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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