Community Mental Health Nurse
| Posting date: | 03 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2026 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE29 8NH |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7743769/319-7743769RW |
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 / secondment to operate as a Community Mental Health Nurse within the Older Adult’s pathway within a specific Geographical area.
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 I high quality, ensuring that person centred care is deliver, risk are managed and appropriate treatment and other interventions (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) are offered within I 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.
• Undertakes effective specialist initial assessment, risk assessment and rating scales to plan, implement and evaluate individualised care plans that are responsive to the needs of the service user.
• Able to work towards recovery model including effective discharge planning and WRAP plans.
• To facilitate in service user involvement / patient participation in area of responsibility.
• Utilise health promotion techniques to support service user’s in optimising their physical and mental health wellbeing.
• Assess manage and evaluate risk as an ongoing process using the risk assessment identified by the Trust. Escalate risks and communicate effectively with senior staff.
• Accurate and up to date record keeping in keeping with NMC guidelines.
• Provide effective care and therapeutic interventions to service user’s presenting with a range of difficulties.
• Work within competence to administer and medication as per route prescribed and document this clearly working within current NMC guidelines.
• Document and communicate medication changes.
• Act as patient advocate in all matters relating to patient welfare acknowledging and incorporating cultural preferences, health beliefs and behaviours.
• Competent decision making on highly complex issues without supervision is required.
This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Feb 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the MHSOP Community Mental Health Team for a 12 month fixed term / secondment to operate as a Community Mental Health Nurse within the Older Adult’s pathway within a specific Geographical area.
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 I high quality, ensuring that person centred care is deliver, risk are managed and appropriate treatment and other interventions (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) are offered within I 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.
• Undertakes effective specialist initial assessment, risk assessment and rating scales to plan, implement and evaluate individualised care plans that are responsive to the needs of the service user.
• Able to work towards recovery model including effective discharge planning and WRAP plans.
• To facilitate in service user involvement / patient participation in area of responsibility.
• Utilise health promotion techniques to support service user’s in optimising their physical and mental health wellbeing.
• Assess manage and evaluate risk as an ongoing process using the risk assessment identified by the Trust. Escalate risks and communicate effectively with senior staff.
• Accurate and up to date record keeping in keeping with NMC guidelines.
• Provide effective care and therapeutic interventions to service user’s presenting with a range of difficulties.
• Work within competence to administer and medication as per route prescribed and document this clearly working within current NMC guidelines.
• Document and communicate medication changes.
• Act as patient advocate in all matters relating to patient welfare acknowledging and incorporating cultural preferences, health beliefs and behaviours.
• Competent decision making on highly complex issues without supervision is required.
This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Feb 2026