Community Psychiatric Nurse

Community Psychiatric Nurse

The closing date is 10 March 2026

The post will be based in YGT with strong links to Local Authority, the inpatient mental health wards at Royal Glamorgan Hospital, our GP partners and third sector organisations.

The post holder will hold a first level qualification in mental health nursing and have excellent clinical knowledge and experience of mental health and the Mental Health Measure 2010. Excellent communication, listening and organisational skills are essential along with MDT working, in a challenging and changeable environment.

To deliver evidence based holistic professional mental health care to older people within the context of an integrated multi-disciplinary and multi-agency community mental health team.

The post holder is identified as a skilled and creative practitioner with knowledge of working with and supporting people living within their own communities and will be an integral member of the Community Mental Health Team.

The post holder will work collaboratively with the wider multi-disciplinary teams to meet the needs of people within a community setting.

To hold a clinical caseload providing comprehensive assessment, care and treatment to clients referred to the Community Mental Health Team in accordance with Part 2 of the Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010.

Acting within their professional boundaries, the post holder will provide support and intervention through holistic person-centred assessment, clinical consideration, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care within a multi-agency team approach. The post holder will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making for older people within their homes.

Foster robust, open and positive working relationships with all partners in particular Local Authority and other mental health services and the 3rd sector, ensuring that all partners are treated with dignity and respect.

Proactively contribute to the continuing improvement and development of community mental health services, within an environment that welcomes new ideas and listens to everyone.

The post holder will frequently work as a Lone Worker.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates. This isn't 'fluency', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs:
Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only the lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

• Registered Mental Health Nurse Evidence of post- registration continuing professional development activity
• Post Registration qualification to postgraduate Diploma level, or possess skills, knowledge, training and experience to equivalency.
• Excellent clinical knowledge of specialist area.
• Good knowledge of NHS Funded Nursing Care and Continuing Health Care
• Knowledge of Escalating Concerns Policy

• Significant experience of successfully operating in a patient centred environment.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience of drafting reports and correspondence.
• Experience of working within a multi-agency community mental health setting

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to understand and manage complex issues and environments.
• Partnership and multi-disciplinary working.
• Presenting information to other professional groups.

• Sound working knowledge of the legal and policy framework underpinning mental health service provision e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, National Service Frameworks, Care and Treatment Planning.

• The role is community based, therefore the ability to travel throughout the UHB locality in a timely manner is essential to the role.
• Can work effectively with people with diverse skills, abilities and experience.
• Able to prioritise work and work to multiple deadlines.
• Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.

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…