Community Mental Health Nurse

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare trust in Stoke-on-Trent seeks a full-time Community Mental Health Nurse to join its supportive team. Responsibilities include providing care and therapeutic interventions while actively participating in multi-disciplinary team meetings. The role requires a registered nurse qualification and prior experience in community mental health care. The trust is dedicated to staff development, wellbeing, and the promotion of diversity within its workforce while actively working toward sustainability goals.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Wellness programs

Focus on sustainability and diversity

Qualifications

• Must have completed a 12-month preceptorship since qualifying.
• Experience in community mental health settings is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide care as a keyworker for clients within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Conduct assessments and deliver therapeutic interventions.
• Liaise with professionals and participate in MDT meetings.

Skills

Team collaboration

Community mental health care

Clinical assessment

Therapeutic intervention

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

About the Role

The Sutherland Centre is a busy, fast‑based adult community mental health team within Stoke on Trent. We are a large, supportive team who take pride in our sense of team and prioritise development and staff wellbeing. The local CMHTs are constantly changing and developing, in order to meet the needs of our local community, and so a willingness to work with change and have a positive mindset is essential. We are looking to recruit a full‑time B6 Community Mental Health Nurse.

Recruitment Criteria

NOTE: We are unable to accept applications from newly qualified nurses who have not completed a 12‑month preceptorship since qualifying.

Key Responsibilities

• Work within a fast‑paced, supportive multi‑disciplinary team as a keyworker for a specific group of clients.
• Provide care and therapeutic intervention which might include assessments, 1:1 or group‑based interventions; depots and physical health‑based tasks, management of complex SMI patients.
• Caseloads will be varied and you will be offered supervision from the caseload manager/clinical lead.
• Required to liaise with other professionals, agencies both statutory and non‑statutory, to provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services and attend MDT meetings regarding progress and outcomes.
• Ensure that practice remains abreast of new developments and to develop and maintain standards and implement change in respect of this, to act as named nurse for a specific group of clients and provide care under the supervision of the caseload manager.
• Conduct assessments and deliver specific therapeutic interventions to this group of clients and liaise with other professionals regarding progress and outcomes.
• Ensure that practice remains abreast of new developments and to develop and maintain standards and implement change in respect of this.
• Liaise with other professionals and agencies both statutory and non‑statutory and provide a link between hospital and community and/or primary and secondary services.
• Operate a duty role in the screening of referrals and allocation for assessment.
• Provide support and guidance to colleagues over issues of risks and/or complex clinical presentation.
• Act as named nurse with responsibility for the assessment, planning and delivery of care to the identified patient group.

Our Commitments

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care. We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working. We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045. As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. We will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under‑represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.