Community Mental Health Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 22/09/2026
- Closes
- 06/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a motivated and compassionate Band 6 Community Mental Health Nurse within an Older Adults Community Mental Health Team in Gateshead. The post holder will deliver evidence-based, person-centred care, working autonomously while collaborating with a multi-agency team. Key responsibilities include assessing and managing complex mental health caseloads and providing clinical interventions to promote recovery and independence for older people.
Essential criteria
- First Level Registered Nurse RNMH, RMN, RNLD.
Desirable criteria
- Recognised qualification relevant to speciality
- Management Development
- Recruitment and selection training
- Teaching and Assessing qualification
- Knowledge, skills and aptitude
- oHas excellent communication and organisational skills
- oEvidence of time management skills
- oHas a good working knowledge of the Care Programme Approach
- oHas a good working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
- oSubstantial Band 5 experience
- oExperience working with people over 65 yrs with mental health problems.
- oIT skills
- oExperience working in the Community
- oHas experience in interviewing staff
- Disposition
- oDemonstrate clinical expertise
- oDemonstrate leadership skills
- oAble to work as a member of a team
- Special requirements
- oAbility to work flexibly
- oCurrent driving licence
- First Level Registered Nurse RNMH, RMN, RNLD.
- Recognised qualification relevant to speciality
- Management Development
- Recruitment and selection training
- Teaching and Assessing qualification
- Knowledge, skills and aptitude
- oHas excellent communication and organisational skills
- oEvidence of time management skills
- oHas a good working knowledge of the Care Programme Approach
- oHas a good working knowledge of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
- oSubstantial Band 5 experience
- oExperience working with people over 65 yrs with mental health problems.
- oIT skills
- oExperience working in the Community
- oHas experience in interviewing staff
- Disposition
- oDemonstrate clinical expertise
- oDemonstrate leadership skills
- oAble to work as a member of a team
- Special requirements
- oAbility to work flexibly
- oCurrent driving licence
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 14d
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Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Community Mental Health Nurse
The closing date is 06 October 2026
Job summary
Are you motivated, caring, compassionate, highly skilled at delivering mental health interventions with the ability to work autonomously in a community setting?
Would you like to work in a supportive environment as a band 6 in an Older Adults Community Mental Health Team providing evidence based and person-centred care?
We are currently recruiting into our specialist Older Adult Mental Health service which works across the borough of Gateshead.
Staff work autonomously while being part of a wider Multi Agency Team, which includes Psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists and Psychologists.We have strong links with other parts of the service which includes the Memory Hub, Younger Persons with Dementia unit, Mental Health Liaison and the two in patient mental health wards. As part of an acute trust, we work closely with our physical health colleagues.
For the post, you must have a genuine interest in older people with mental health problems and previous experience of working in the community is desirable. You will need the ability to work autonomously while contributing to the team as a whole. You are required to have substantial experience working at Band 5 or equivalent in your professional field and a commitment to service development.
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