Community Mental Health Nurse

Surrey and Borders is looking for someone who is passionate about ensuring a high-quality holistic approach to the care and support provided to clients in the community who have been identified as in need of community nurse support to enable them to exercise choice over their own lives.

Work Location: Gatton Place, St Matthews Road, Redhill, RH1 1TA

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

• Deliver high-quality community mental health nursing services to older adults within a multi-professional framework.
• Undertake autonomous assessment, nurse diagnosis, care planning, and treatment delivery.
• Discharge professional responsibilities under the Mental Health Act (1983), Mental Capacity Act (2005), and the NMC Code of Conduct.
• Manage and coordinate care for a defined caseload under the Care Programme Approach (CPA).
• Support and advise Primary Care services in the management of mental health presentations.
• Administer and manage medications safely in accordance with Trust and national guidelines.
• Participate in MDT meetings, allocation processes, and the Team Duty Rota.
• Maintain accurate clinical records in line with Caldicott principles and Trust standards.

Provide supervision, mentorship, and education to junior staff and students.

Contribute to governance, incident reporting, complaints management, and service improvement processes.

Develop collaborative relationships with statutory and voluntary agencies, including integrated care teams.

Provide mental health education and health promotion across primary and secondary care settings.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nichola Jelly Job title: Manager Email address: Nichola.jelly@sabp.nhs.uk