Community Psychiatric Nurse Team leader

Overview

The post holder will provide leadership, line management and supervision to a team of nursing staff within a pro-active and forward thinking multi-disciplinary community mental health service. Positive role modelling and risk management alongside expert delivery of evidence based mental health nursing care to service users in the community are essential components of this role.

• Promote and maintain a culture of compassion and care to staff and service users.
• Actively promote the development of evidence based practice.
• Foster robust working relationships with all partners in particular Local Authority and Primary Care.
• To carry a clinical caseload and take a lead on management of complex cases and supporting all staff in the CMHT with the management of such cases.
• To respond as required to serious untoward incidents, complaints and communications regarding team issues providing feedback to the team to ensure lessons learned are shared and inform practice development.
• Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team.
• Operate an honest and open listening culture within the team, positively inviting and responding to feedback from both staff and service users.

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 and selecting 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 our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

• Date posted: 29 January 2026
• Pay scheme:
  Agenda for Change
• Band:
  Band 7
• Salary: £48,527 to £55,532 a year per annum
• Contract:
  
  Permanent
• Working pattern:
  Full-time
• Reference number: 110-NMR
  018-0126
• Job locations:
  Ysybty George Thomas Hospital, The Mattie Collins Way, Treorchy, CF42 6YG

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.

Essential

• Qualifications
• Registered mental health nurse
• Evidence of post- registration continuing professional development activity.
• Ability to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and awareness of current evidence base relevant to the area of practice
• Sound working knowledge of the legal and policy framework underpinning mental health provision e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, National Service Frameworks, Mental Health Measures
• Knowledge of safeguarding procedures for children and adults

Desirable

• Experience of MDT working
• Community mental health nurse experience

Skills

• Organisational ability and time management skills
• Clinical assessment and formulation skills
• People management and leadership skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Keyboard/word processing skills
• Ability to present information clearly

Desirable

• I.T. skills
• Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.

Experience

• Evidence of achievement in clinical practice within the area of speciality e.g. adult mental health, older person’s mental health.
• Experience of working within a multi-agency community mental health setting.
• Management experience.
• Ward/Team management experience
• Teaching experience

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. 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. UK Registration:
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. See NHS Careers website for details.

Employer details:
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board;
Address:
Ysybty George Thomas Hospital, The Mattie Collins Way, Treorchy, CF42 6YG
;
Employer's website: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./