Community Mental Health Nurse

Job summary
Brent and Harrow CommunityPerinatalMentalHealth Team, basedat Northwick Park HospitalarerecruitingforaBand 7, full-time permanent post. We are looking foronepassionate RegisteredMentalHealthNurses who are looking to make a difference whilst working in an environment that promotes staff development and training opportunities. CNWL is passionate about developing its own staff, driving them to go on to become more established practitioners and this post is no different.

You could be anexisting Band6 or Band 7Nurselooking to take your next steps or anexperienced practitionerlooking for a new venture;we have training and development opportunities tailored to suit your needswithin the perinatal framework.If you currently work within CNWL trust already then this would be a wonderful secondment opportunity for a year to experience theworking within theperinatalspecialty.

Main duties of the job
To be you and to do what you do best in the job you love!

We are looking for a clinician with a special interest in improving care for women, birthingpeopleand their families. Experience of working in the perinatal mental health field isnotnecessary buta keen interest in this specialist area is essential.

The Perinatal Mental Health service provides specialist, multidisciplinary perinatal mental health care for women from preconception, during pregnancy and up to two years postnatal who live in the boroughs of Brent and Harrow.

To help support you with the abovewe offer a robustinductionand tailored trainingis givenand encouraged. As an employer, CNWL andLondon Perinatal Networkalso offer various training opportunities, dependent on how long you are in post andonyour development needs.In addition, we offer regular in-housetraining opportunitiesto learn fromeach otherwith the aim to continuously improve our practice.

About us
We are committed to offering you an environment to flourish which includes dedicateddevelopment opportunitiesas well as ahealthier work life balance. We will offer you;

• Commitment from the team todevelop youby offering in house perinatal training in the form of masterclasses led by members of the perinatal service and associated integral agencies.
• Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing serviceto ensure that you are always looking after yourself.
• Commitment tocareer mappingto ensure continuous professional development including opportunities within the Trust.
• On-siteshadowing opportunitiesincludingMaternity Services, Mother and baby Unit,HomeTreatmentTeam, Psych Liaison and many more.
• An opportunity to work with afriendly, dynamic,passionateand diverse teamwho are committed to looking after each other as well as theirservice users.
• Excellentstaff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London andinclude:childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, blue light card, discounts at Nando's and Superdrug, mobile phone contracts and much more!
• Award-winning Staff Networks.
• Hidden Gem & annualaward ceremonies.

Details
Date posted: 13 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £55,524 to £62,652 a year
per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 333-J-HA-0744-A
Job locations: Northwick Park Hospital, Mental Health Unit
Watford Road
Harrow
HA1 3UJ
United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• To work with fathers, partners and significant others to provide appropriate education training and support.
• To identify carers and refer/sign post for assessment as appropriate.
• To work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team exercising autonomous professional responsibility for managing a clinical caseload independently, providing highly specialist assessments and follow-up for women referred with complex problems, which includes assessment of risk in terms of self-harm, self-neglect, vulnerability, harm to others, domestic violence and safeguarding children.
• To seek consultation where necessary with clinical supervisor and/or line manager on clinical work and participate in regular supervision.
• To be mindful of the needs of women and their families from a wide range of racial, cultural, sexual, religious and social backgrounds and to develop with colleagues, sensitive and innovative ways of meeting these needs.
• To ensure that all Trust Perinatal service users have a perinatal care plan, which is implemented. This requires attending and contributing to pre and post-birth meetings.
• To work with other professionals in supporting them to implement an agreed parent infant care plan.
• To attend the CNWL Safeguarding Children multidisciplinary meetings and any other relevant multidisciplinary meetings within Maternity services, as appropriate.
• To be responsible for monitoring, recording and reporting on clinical work and communicating highly complex clinical information to a variety of recipients (e.g. patients, families and carers, other professionals) orally and in writing.
• To be responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of local resources and developing excellent working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.

Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential

• RMN qualification and evidence of current registration on Part 3 of NMC register
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Practice Assessor/Supervisor training

Desirable

• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Specialist Training in perinatal & infant mental health
• Qualifications / training in specialist skills e.g. therapeutic / psychological interventions
• Recently experience of perinatal mental health practice and/or safeguarding children practice

Experience
Essential

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree /diploma
• Experience of managing a caseload of service users with evidence of completing high quality assessments
• Experience of working in a complex multi-disciplinary / multi-agency context
• Experience of formal child protection processes and inter-agency work with families
• Experience of undertaking complex nursing and mental state, risk and needs assessments
• Experience of working in a multi-racial/cultural community and of working with interpreters

Desirable

• Experience of multi-agency pre-birth planning (CPA) for women with serious mental illness
• Evidence of networking within the Perinatal Psychitatry Specialty
• Experience of working in obstetrics and gynaecology
• Experience of planning and delivery of training in response to identified needs
• Experience of contributing to policies and procedures
• Experience of supervising mental health / non mental health professionals

Skills and Abilities
Essential

• Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options.
• Team/self management and organisational skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service.
• Ability to contribute to and facilitate effective multi-disciplinary/multi-agency working
• Ability to implement evidence-based practice
• Ability to liaise and offer highly specialist consultation to other agencies effectively
• Ability to provide highly specialist therapeutic assessments and a range of therapeutic interventions
• Ability to effectively manage own clinical and administrative caseload and work under pressure at times of change
• Ability to identify, recognise and understand safeguarding children issues and refer appropriately
• Ability to develop and deliver training on perinatal mental health and associated issues such as safeguarding children, domestic violence
• Ability to provide supervision to staff within own and other disciplines and to use supervision effectively
• Ability to work flexibly across service boundaries and with professionals from health care settings such as maternity services
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written
• Ability to work effectively with women from diverse minority ethnic and cultural backgrounds and with families with a high level of deprivation, social isolation, exclusion and stigma.
• Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary and 'virtual' team
• Computer literate to an intermediate/ advanced level

Knowledge and Understanding
Essential

• Up to date knowledge of evidence based practice and current developments in perinatal psychiatry
• Knowledge about mental illness in the perinatal period
• Up to date knowledge of the Children Act 1989 and associated legislation and government policy and its implications for mental health services
• Knowledge and understanding of diversity and equality issues and their application in perinatal psychiatry services
• Knowledge & understanding of contributions of other disciplines and professionals to a multi-agency service
• Understanding of clinical governance and audit issues
• Understanding of issues around information-sharing in relation to Child Protection and Children in Need
• Knowledge of relevant Perinatal service models
• Knowledge of relevant legislation e.g. MHA, MCA

Desirable

• Experience of conducting clinical audits

Personal
Essential

• Calm and profesional in manner.
• Able to exercise initiative, flexibility and tact.
• Ability to work under pressure and remain calm particularly in unpredictable situations where there may be exposure to highly distressed patients who may exhibit challenging behaviour
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to accept constructive criticism.
• Self-motivated with the ability to think laterally to problem solve
• Willing to engage in and use peer and group supervision creativity.

Other
Essential

• The postholder must have the ability to understand and implement the Equal Opportunities Policy at a level appropriate to the job

Desirable

• Car driver with valid U.K driving licence

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer.