The closing date is 04 November 2026
Salary: £51,657 to £58,785 a year per annum (Incl. of HCAS)
Job summary
Berkshire Healthcare is developing an innovative Assertive Outreach service to provide intensive, flexible and compassionate support to people living with severe and enduring mental health conditions who find it difficult to engage with traditional services. To support this, we are looking for a Specialist Staff Nurse.
This is an exciting Band 7 opportunity to join a newly established specialist multidisciplinary team and play a key role in leading and shaping how Assertive Outreach is delivered across Berkshire. Working from our Slough hub, you will support individuals with complex needs, helping them remain engaged with services, avoid crisis and admission, and achieve the outcomes that matter most to them.
Location: Prospect House OR New Horizons, Slough
Main duties of the job
As a Specialist Staff Nurse, you will:
- Manage a protected caseload of individuals with complex mental health needs, significant risk factors and multi-agency involvement.
- Deliver proactive and persistent outreach, including community visits and flexible engagement approaches.
- Develop collaborative care plans focused on recovery, relapse prevention and admission avoidance.
- Work closely with carers, families and partner agencies including housing, social care, primary care, police and voluntary services.
- Act as an expert practitioner within the multidisciplinary team, providing clinical leadership, supervision and specialist advice.
- Contribute to service development, quality improvement and the implementation of innovative approaches to engagement and care.
Person Specification
Education, qualifications or training
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- NMC Registration
- Mentorship Qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Highly specialist knowledge acquired through education to Masters level, training or equivalent experience, in your relevant specialty
Continuous Professional Development
Desirable
- Evidence of highly developed continuous professional development relevant to your area of specialism
Previous Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working autonomously to deliver high quality and evidence-based nursing care.
- Experience in providing supervision to junior colleagues and students in the completion of routine nursing and clinical skills.
- Uphold the Trust’s values of being caring, committed and working as team through demonstrable examples and experience.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to demonstrate highly specialist clinical nursing skills relevant to the role.
- Demonstrable ability to effectively identify risks or deviations from normal and escalate concerns in a timely way.
- Ability to prioritise workload to meet conflicting demands, where there may be a variety of conflicting pressures.
- Advanced use of digital tools and applications including Word, Outlook and patient management systems.
- Ability to maintain written records which are tailored for the situation, such as patient notes, patient reports or presentations.
- Ability to travel between multiple Trust sites and non-Trust locations, including patient homes, some of which may be challenging to access via public transport.
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).