Capacity and Flow Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
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Role summary
The Capacity and Flow Nurse acts as the primary contact for referrals into the secondary mental health team within HMP Forest Bank. This role involves communicating with various clinical and non-clinical professionals, utilizing nursing skills to provide high-quality care to clients and carers, and developing care programmes to promote health and independence. Key duties include processing referrals, obtaining clinical information from external agencies, conducting risk assessments, and coordinating transfers to and from external care settings.
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Post registration experience working within a clinical setting
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of prison needs providing care within the step care model
- Completed preceptorship
- Recent relevant experience of team working
- Experience of working with offenders in prison, an inpatient setting or in the community
- Specialist needs of service users within the prison environment and criminal justice system
- Skills and Abilities
- able to manage change good interpersonal skills knowledge of the MHA/CPA process
- Ability to write reports and present information
- Ability to prioritise workload work at a fast pace and meet deadline
- skills and abilities
- Experience of working with and using a variety of models and approaches. Lone working
- Education Qualfications
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Post registration experience working within a clinical setting
- Knowledge of prison needs providing care within the step care model
- Completed preceptorship
- Recent relevant experience of team working
- Experience of working with offenders in prison, an inpatient setting or in the community
- Specialist needs of service users within the prison environment and criminal justice system
- Skills and Abilities
- able to manage change good interpersonal skills knowledge of the MHA/CPA process
- Ability to write reports and present information
- Ability to prioritise workload work at a fast pace and meet deadline
- skills and abilities
- Experience of working with and using a variety of models and approaches. Lone working
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
Capacity and Flow Nurse
The closing date is 17 September 2026
Job summary
The post holder will be the point of contact for referrals into the secondary mental health team and, as such, will demonstrate a high standard of ability in communicating with a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professionals within the criminal justice team.
Effective communication is essential. To utilise nursing skills and resources to provide a high quality service to all clients and carers along with all professionals within multi-agency network.
Main duties of the job
To develop planned programmes of care to promote health gains and maximize independence in all types of clients within the prison community.
To undertake the duty role in processing referrals into the secondary mental health team within HMP Forest Bank.
Obtaining relevant clinical information from external agencies to inform the prison mental health team in establishing the level of care need required.
Risk assessments clear and precise documentation in accordance with Trust and national professional policies and guidelines.
Coordinating the process of referrals to external care settings in preparation for transfer under the mental health act and also managing requests from care settings to remit service users back to prison custody.
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