Community Mental Health Nurse - Memory Service
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Community Mental Health Nurse to join the Memory Team in Redcar. The role involves delivering high-quality, effective, and place-based Memory Services, focusing on timely diagnosis of dementia and associated conditions. You will undertake detailed holistic memory assessments, record clinical discussions, and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, service users, and their families. The position is part of a quality improvement initiative and the trust's Dementia pathway refresh.
Key responsibilities
- Make initial contact to support service users and families in understanding the memory pathway.
- Undertake detailed holistic memory assessments, collating clinically relevant individual service user information.
- Promote positive experience and clinical outcomes from the beginning of the service journey.
- Accurately record and document clinical discussions and assessment details on the clinical system.
- Ensure all individual service user documentation is up to date to inform clinical meetings and aid decision-making.
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council RNMH or RNLD (RNSC - CAMHS only ) - RGN (If appropriate)
- To be recognised practice assessor / mentor or work towards in an agreed timescale
- Trained Clinical Supervisor (within 6 month probationary period)
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Working with people with mental ill health / learning disabilities
- Working in a person centred therapeutic organisation
- Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Working in partnership with other agencies
- Evidence based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
- Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act)
- Understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
- Clinical Governance and its application in practice
- Confident working knowledge of clinical medicines management, including administration of injections
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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Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Community Mental Health Nurse - Memory Service
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Mental Health Nurse to join our Memory Team in Redcar, based at Reed Marsh House. We are looking for a dynamic, positive and forward-thinking clinician with a passion for caring for people with cognitive impairment, their families and carers, and with a specialist interest in delivering high quality, effective and place-based Memory Services. This is an exciting time to join our team and locality - this role is an important part of a quality improvement initiative, alongside the trust Dementia pathway refresh. We deliver our memory services to broaden access and ensure delivery of specialist memory assessment in a timely manner. This is essential to enable timely diagnosis of dementia and associated needs and conditions, which supports access to early treatment and support, decision making and aids optimal management and life outcomes for those in need.
This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit **https://www.gov.uk/skilled-
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