Community Mental Health Nurse

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 users 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 service 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 delivered, risks are managed, and appropriate treatment and other interventions (pharmacological and non-pharmacological) are offered in a timely manner.

You will contribute to the effective care planning of the service user’s needs by providing regular reviews and risk assessments with the goal of working towards safe discharge planning.

You will practice in accordance with the Trust's 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.