Community Mental Health Nurse
| Posting date: | 14 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 14 December 2025 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE29 8NH |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7575736/319-7575736RW |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the MHSOP Community Mental Health Team for a 12 month fixed term period to operate as a Community Mental Health Nurse within the Older Adult’s pathway within a specific Geographical area.
To provide specialist skills, knowledge and experience for those identified as having Mental Health problems.
To work as part of a Community Team which may be integrated, working collaboratively and in partnership with other services.
To be compassionate in meeting the needs of Service User’s and their carers.
To be professionally accountable and responsible for service user care. To undertake a range of clinical / therapeutic interventions within the service user’s home environment or other community settings.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Please ensure you have prior approval from your current line manager, that a secondment agreement can be facilitated within your current department before applying
Working as a community mental health nurse your role will be to undertake the assessment and management of services users presenting with complex mental health care needs.
You will provide a comprehensive assessment of need, offering intervention, advice and support to service users, family, carers and other professionals involved in their care.
As part of the multidisciplinary team, you will ensure that care and treatment is delivered to a high quality, ensuring that person centred care is deliver, risks are managed and appropriate treatment and other interventions (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) are offered within a timely manner.
You will contribute to the effective care planning of the service user’s needs by providing regular reviews, risk assessment with the goal of working towards safe discharge planning.
You will practice in accordance with the Trust' Values: Respect, Everyone's Contribution Counts, Responsibility & Accountability, Patients First, Safe & High Quality Care.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
• To operate as a Community Mental Health Nurse within the Older Adult’s pathway within a specific Geographical area.
• To provide specialist skills, knowledge and experience for those identified as having Mental Health problems.
• To work as part of a Community Team which may be integrated, working collaboratively and in partnership with other services.
• To be compassionate in meeting the needs of Service User’s and their carers.
• To be professionally accountable and responsible for service user care. To undertake a range of clinical / therapeutic interventions within the service user’s home environment or other community settings.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Monday 1 Dec 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the MHSOP Community Mental Health Team for a 12 month fixed term period to operate as a Community Mental Health Nurse within the Older Adult’s pathway within a specific Geographical area.
To provide specialist skills, knowledge and experience for those identified as having Mental Health problems.
To work as part of a Community Team which may be integrated, working collaboratively and in partnership with other services.
To be compassionate in meeting the needs of Service User’s and their carers.
To be professionally accountable and responsible for service user care. To undertake a range of clinical / therapeutic interventions within the service user’s home environment or other community settings.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Please ensure you have prior approval from your current line manager, that a secondment agreement can be facilitated within your current department before applying
Working as a community mental health nurse your role will be to undertake the assessment and management of services users presenting with complex mental health care needs.
You will provide a comprehensive assessment of need, offering intervention, advice and support to service users, family, carers and other professionals involved in their care.
As part of the multidisciplinary team, you will ensure that care and treatment is delivered to a high quality, ensuring that person centred care is deliver, risks are managed and appropriate treatment and other interventions (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) are offered within a timely manner.
You will contribute to the effective care planning of the service user’s needs by providing regular reviews, risk assessment with the goal of working towards safe discharge planning.
You will practice in accordance with the Trust' Values: Respect, Everyone's Contribution Counts, Responsibility & Accountability, Patients First, Safe & High Quality Care.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
• To operate as a Community Mental Health Nurse within the Older Adult’s pathway within a specific Geographical area.
• To provide specialist skills, knowledge and experience for those identified as having Mental Health problems.
• To work as part of a Community Team which may be integrated, working collaboratively and in partnership with other services.
• To be compassionate in meeting the needs of Service User’s and their carers.
• To be professionally accountable and responsible for service user care. To undertake a range of clinical / therapeutic interventions within the service user’s home environment or other community settings.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Monday 1 Dec 2025