Specialist Community Mental Health Nurse

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you passionate about supporting adults to have good mental health? Are you a recovery focused and creative Mental Health Nurse who wants to work in a supportive multi-disciplinary team? An opportunity has become available to work within the Older Adults Community Mental Health Team as a Band 6 Specialist Community Mental Health Nurse.

As an employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are dedicated to being a best practice example of inter-professional working in mental health. As part of this we encourage and provide opportunities for continued professional development and regular supervision to help develop nursing confidence, skills and career.

You will need ability to effectively transport yourself between multiple addresses/venues on a daily basis including transporting, clients, equipment & clinical stock required for treatment.

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Community Mental Health Nurse you will provide signposting, support and short-term interventions to promote mental health recovery. Establishing therapeutic relationships with service users and their family/carers.

  • Complete initial triage and assessment of needs.
  • Signposting /referring clients to the most appropriate service to meet their needs.
  • Complete risk assessment and care planning documentation
  • Develop and deliver recovery focused care.
  • Provide information and psycho education surrounding mental health conditions and medication.
  • Uphold legal frameworks which underpin service delivery.
  • Assess risks, the management of risks and effectiveness of interventions.
  • Develop good working relationships with neighbouring teams to enable effective co-working and responsive transfers of care if necessary.
  • Monitoring of medication.
  • Supervise other members of the team and students.
  • Leadership to support the team day to day and in meetings.

Person Specification

Qualifiactions & Knowledge

Essential

  • Registered Mental Health Nurse on NMC live register
  • Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
  • Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
  • Basic IT skills

Experience

Essential

  • Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care
  • Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation

Desirable

  • Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
  • Ability to effectively Chair meetings

Skills and Competencies

Essential

  • Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring

Desirable

  • Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change

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).

Closing Date: 2 August 2026

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