Community Nurse

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne And Wear Nhs Foundation Trust; Horsham; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumberland Recovery Partnership is seeking a Band 5 registered nurse to join our team. You will perform individualised clinical assessments, care planning, formulation, and work across the multi-agency team, providing supervision and supporting students.

You will represent the Trust in forums and build links with external agencies to ensure clear service pathways. You will have strong communication, time management and organisational skills with a commitment to high-quality safe care.

Qualifications

• Ability to use IT systems.
• Competent in comprehensive continuous assessment.
• Ability to perform risk assessments and plan safety.
• Experience in risk management and safety planning.
• Ability to establish rapport and engage with service users.

Responsibilities

• Provide care within the physical health pathway for substance/alcohol misuse.
• Collaborate within a multi-disciplinary team to support service users.
• Perform comprehensive physical health assessments per Trust standards and arrange referrals.
• Deliver harm reduction advice and psychosocial interventions to aid recovery.
• Address health inequalities in deprived areas and ensure access to essential care.

Skills

IT systems

Continuous assessment

Risk assessment

Risk management

Rapport building

Education

RMN/RNLD registration

Experience with service users

Preceptorship programme

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Communication of interventions

Job description

Job summary

Northumberland Recovery Partnership have an exciting opportunity for a band 5 registered nurse to join our team.
The team consists of a well-established mix of professionals that work collaboratively to deliver individualised care. The role involves individualised clinical assessment, care planning, formulation, and collaborative working across the multi-agency team.
The applicant will be expected to demonstrate leadership within the team, providing supervision and supporting students.
The post holder will represent the Trust in a number of forums and develop links with external agencies to ensure that service users have clear pathways into appropriate services.
You will have excellent communication, time management and organisational skills.
You must have a strong commitment to the delivery of high-quality safe care.
You should have an interest in working within a busy and challenging environment as well as the ability to demonstrate a warm, person centred approach to care.
You will work in a highly supported environment and will be provided with training opportunities to further develop your knowledge and skills.

Main duties of the job

Physical health Nurse
The opportunity to work within our physical health pathway
The role entails working with those affected by substance and alcohol misuse that may have a range of physical health needs alongside. The role will be to provide safe and effective interventions, harm reduction advice and use of psychosocial interventions to support service users to consider and achieve recovery.
The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary team to provide care to those affected by substance use.
The post holder will complete comprehensive physical health assessments in line with Trust standards and offer appropriate interventions, onward referrals and monitoring of health. Your role will be pivotal in addressing health inequalities within areas of deprivation, delivering essential care to those who's physical health is negatively impacted by substance and alcohol misuse.

About us

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.

Job responsibilities

Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 13th October 2026
Closing date : 27th October 2026

Person Specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Knowledge of relevant contemporary professional theories of mental health care and evidence based interventions.
• Understanding of the statutory issues which impact on service users.
• Nursing Degree

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Ability to use IT system
• Comprehensive continuous assessment of skills
• Risk Assessment skills.
• Risk Management and Safety Planning skills.
• Ability to establish a rapport and demonstrate engagement skills with service users

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• First Level Registration RMN/RNMH/RNLD Qualification
• Experience of working with service users and carers in successful delivery of treatment plans
• Complete preceptorship programme for newly qualified nurses
• Multi-disciplinary team work.
• Proven ability to develop therapeutic partnership with service users and carers.
• Proven ability to be able to communicate interventions to service users.

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.
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).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).