Senior Community Mental Health Nurse - Dementia

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Telford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is looking for a Senior Community Mental Health Nurse to join their Dementia Assessment and Support Service. This role involves supporting service users with complex needs, managing a caseload, and working closely with a multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will be a registered nurse with experience in dementia care and excellent communication skills. This is a full-time position offering flexible working hours.

Benefits

Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave

Up to 27 days annual leave

Flexible working options

Extensive Health and Wellbeing support

Free car parking at all trust sites

Qualifications

• Experience in undertaking cognitive assessments.
• Evidence of professional development.
• Knowledge of the assessment and diagnosis of dementia.

Responsibilities

• Manage a complex caseload.
• Assess individual care needs and implement care programmes.
• Participate in the development of the service.
• Contribute to risk assessments and management plans.

Skills

Registered Mental Health Nurse on NMC Register

Experience of working with those living with dementia

Experience of working in the community

Excellent communication skills

Education

Post‑registration experience

Independent Non‑Medical Prescriber (or willingness to work towards)

Job description

Senior Community Mental Health Nurse - Dementia

The closing date is 07 December 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Senior Community Mental Health Nurse to join the Assessment and Diagnosis team within the Dementia Assessment and Support Service.

This role will involve the assessment and support of service users in the community who have high level or complex clinical needs and will support the incoming referrals to the service via triage. The postholder will work within an MDT with Consultant input, but is mainly led by our Specialist Dementia Nurse Practitioners.

The service can be very fast paced and therefore the ability to work efficiently under pressure and respond to high service demand is essential. Additionally, the post holder needs to be confident to work autonomously and organize their time effectively. You will be highly motivated, have excellent communication skills and work well as part of a team, they will also have determination and drive committed to working holistically to improve the quality of life for people with dementia, their family and carers and also demonstrate a range of therapeutic interventions.

A good positive attitude towards this specialised client group needs to be demonstrated and also the aptitude to contribute to continual development of the service incorporating evidence-based practice.

Main duties of the job

• Take responsibility for the management of a complex caseload
• Participate in the setting of quality standards
• Assess patient's individual care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care
• Deliver a range of interventions in accordance with the agreed plan of care and Pathway guidance including pharmacological and psychologically informed interventions
• Contribute to robust risk assessments and risk management plans and promote positive risk taking where appropriate to improve quality of life and maximise occupational performance/independence
• Maintain an effective reporting system by observing and reporting verbally and in writing on patient conditions
• Utilise agreed outcome measures to review the effectiveness of interventions, as part of the care planning and evaluation process
• Participate in the development of the service to ensure clinical governance processes are actively implemented at team level
• Assist in ensuring that the aims and objectives of the department are fulfilled and identify factors which may inhibit these from being achieved
• Work within the NMC Code of Practice and professional guidelines
• Maintain an up-to-date level of professional competence within the specific environment

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like‑minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Job responsibilities

For further information relating to this position please refer to the attached job description and job specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse on NMC Register
• Post‑registration experience and evidence of professional development
• Practice Supervisor / Practice Assessor
• Independent Non‑Medical Prescriber (or willingness to work towards)

Experience

• Experience of working with those living with dementia
• Experience of working in the community and making autonomous decisions
• Experience in undertaking cognitive assessments

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the assessment and diagnosis of dementia

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.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Full‑time, Flexible working, Compressed hours