Registered Mental Health Nurse

NHS; Bromley; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 51,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks an experienced Registered Mental Nurse to join a multidisciplinary Older Adults Community Mental Health Team. The role focuses on delivering high-quality care, managing complex cases, and providing mentorship within a dynamic environment, particularly for older adults with mental health challenges. This permanent part-time position offers competitive pay and opportunities for professional development.

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered RMN with at least 3 years post qualifying experience.
• Experience providing nursing assessment for families affected by mental health issues.
• Ability to work across various sites.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage a complex caseload focusing on older adults with mental health challenges.
• Ensure adherence to clinical standards and act as a lead for case management.
• Participate in clinical supervision and mentorship for junior staff.

Skills

Assessment

Clinical Practice

Risk Management

Leadership

Education

Registered Mental Nurse (RMN)

Job description

Job summary

Work as an effective professional in a multidisciplinary Older Adults Community Mental Health Team. To prioritise and respond to urgent referrals for assessments as required and deliver high quality health and social care within the Care Programme Approach framework and to participate in the duty rota.

Hold care coordinator responsibility for a complex caseload of services users and their carers.

Responsibility for assessing individual care needs and the planning, implementation and evaluation of care plans, in line with Oxleas Foundation Trust CPA policy.

Provide supervision, mentorship & leadership for support workers and Student Nurses, as appropriate.

Demonstrate understanding and use of clinical supervision to reflect upon and modify own and others practice.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to coordinate and mange a complex caseload with particular focus on:

Responsibility for maintaining high standards of professional and clinical practice in all disciplines.

To ensure that all the organisational policies, procedures and guidelines are adhered to as well as contributing to the development of local ones.

The post holder will be expected to ensure the development of services that are comprehensive, flexible and promote a culture of service users and carers' involvement at every stage of the care pathway.

The post holder is expected to have experience of working in a complex and challenging environment.

The post holder will be expected to have a particular focus on:

• Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team.
• Take a lead on management of complex cases and supporting less experienced staff with the management of such cases.
• Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation.
• Respond to Safeguarding Adult alerts as appropriate.
• Ensure complaints are investigated fully, within the time limits ensuring a proactive approach is standard and in accordance with trust policies.
• Respond to communications regarding team issues.
• Promote and display via personal actions support for the Trust's key policies on Equality and Diversity and use of the recovery orientated approach for people with longer term problems.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Details Date posted

13 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£42,939 to £50,697 a year pro rata pa inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

277-7257047-CMH

Job locations

Bridgeways

Turpington Lane

Bromley

BR2 8JA

Job description Job responsibilities

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation.

Job description Job responsibilities

Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Registered RMN with minimum 3 years post qualifying experience

Clinical Essential

• Experience of providing nursing assessment for carers/families affected by mental health/dementia

Other Requirements Essential

• Must be able to travel and work/cover across sites

Desirable

• Car user is desirable due to the wide expanse of area covered

Experience Essential

• Experience of working within a Health or Social Care setting, with older adults with enduring mental health problems including dementia and associated conditions

Desirable

• Experience of working within community MDT as Care Co-ordinator.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Registered RMN with minimum 3 years post qualifying experience

Clinical Essential

• Experience of providing nursing assessment for carers/families affected by mental health/dementia

Other Requirements Essential

• Must be able to travel and work/cover across sites

Desirable

• Car user is desirable due to the wide expanse of area covered

Experience Essential

• Experience of working within a Health or Social Care setting, with older adults with enduring mental health problems including dementia and associated conditions

Desirable

• Experience of working within community MDT as Care Co-ordinator.

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).

Additional information 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).

Employer details Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bridgeways

Turpington Lane

Bromley

BR2 8JA

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bridgeways

Turpington Lane

Bromley

BR2 8JA

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)