In reach Care Home Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Care Home In Reach Nurse covering Coventry and North and South Warwickshire, focusing on older adults with functional mental illness and dementia. The nurse will triage care home referrals, build relationships with care homes, and work to reduce hospital admissions. The position supports a 7-day a week Hospital at Home Pathway, operating between 08:00-20:00. Key responsibilities include conducting Diadems assessments to improve dementia diagnosis rates and providing quicker responses to urgent situations.
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Management Qualification
- Degree/Diploma or equivalent
- Evidence of CPD
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/ diploma supplemented by specialist training/experience, short courses to masters level equivalent
- Considerable post registration/qualification experience
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of safety and quality underpinned by theory and experience.
- Supervisory Experience and evidence of supervision training
- Evidence of Multi disciplinary and multi-agency working
- Evidence of developing the performance of services
- Leadership and supervisory skills
- Project management skills
- Time management skills
- Evidence of Service user/ carer involvement
- Extensive knowledge of Clinical Governance, safety and quality measures and Clinical Supervision
- Be able to prioritise and manage conflicting demands
- Knowledge of Best Practice
- Knowledge of Recovery Model focussed
- Other
- Must have full driving licence and access to a motor vehicle for business use
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Management Qualification
- Degree/Diploma or equivalent
- Evidence of CPD
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/ diploma supplemented by specialist training/experience, short courses to masters level equivalent
- Considerable post registration/qualification experience
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of safety and quality underpinned by theory and experience.
- Supervisory Experience and evidence of supervision training
- Evidence of Multi disciplinary and multi-agency working
- Evidence of developing the performance of services
- Leadership and supervisory skills
- Project management skills
- Time management skills
- Evidence of Service user/ carer involvement
- Extensive knowledge of Clinical Governance, safety and quality measures and Clinical Supervision
- Be able to prioritise and manage conflicting demands
- Knowledge of Best Practice
- Knowledge of Recovery Model focussed
- Other
- Must have full driving licence and access to a motor vehicle for business use
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £49,387 – £56,515 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
Care Home In Reach Nurse
This is a cross county post, covering Coventry and North and South Warwickshire, within the community Older Adults Team working with functional mental illness and dementia
This post supports our Hospital at Home Pathway which is a 7 day a week service working between the hours of 08.00-20.00
The focus of this position is:
Triage care home referrals- completing a full review at point of triage, to identify needs fully, respond to urgent needs quicker and improve service response time in both routine and urgent referrals .
Care Home Liaison- building relationships with care homes across trust ensuring better communication, relationships and improving outcomes for service users who have complex needs
Reducing admission to both General and Mental Health Hospital
Better response time to urgent situations- as an in reach nurse to be able to respond within 1-2 working days for urgent contacts which will lead to better outcomes for both services and service users
Reducing impact on Older Adult Community Mental Health clinicians- as an reach nurse being able to support junior staff Nurses with community care home referrals
Main duties of the job
The main functions of the care home in reach nurse is to support patients within the care home setting to try and prevent placement break and reduction in admission to both general
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