Community Mental Health Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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 an experienced Community Mental Health Nurse to join the Older Adults Mental Health Team. The post holder will provide high-quality nursing interventions within the Dementia Pathway, offering reviews and conducting routine mental health assessments for older adults. It involves networking between primary and secondary care services to ensure seamless patient journeys and timely care. The nurse will also contribute to triage, assessment, treatment planning, and staff supervision.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post registration experience as an RMN
- Professional experience of working in an older adults' setting
- Experience of MDT working
- Skills in coordinating and planning interagency approaches in mental health care.
- Experience of assessing and managing risk
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of working with statutory and non- statutory agencies.
- Experience of working at Band 6 level
- Experience of managing risk
- Experience of delivering evidence-based treatments.
- Experience of cognitive testing
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Willingness to undertake additional training
- Evidence of post registration training
- Non-medical Prescriber (or will to undertake this training)
- Counselling Qualification Venepuncture Qualification PSI Training
- Skills/Knowledge
- Ability to use initiative and work without immediate supervision
- Knowledge of cognitive testing processes
- Knowledge and understanding of the legislative framework for mental health services, particularly the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act & NICE Guidelines.
- Ability to work as part of a multiprofessional team
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding, empathic approach
- Skills in co-ordinating and planning interagency approaches in mental health care
- An understanding of current mental health issues
- An understanding of dementia diagnoses and associated treatment options and nursing interventions required
- Excellent report writing skills
- IT skills
- Excellent assessment skills- communication skills, establishing a rapport, focusing on gathering pertinent information, probing questions and ability to assimilate within your mental health knowledge to agree an appropriate outcome and plan.
- Completing robust, initial risk assessments and ability to review historic risk
- Understanding of the importance of user/carer involvement in care planning
- Understanding of local Safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Ability to prioritise workload when conflicting demands are made
- Skills in CBT
- Ability to work in a changing environment
- Knowledge and understanding of the roles of other professionals working within mental health
- Ability to elaborate on the translation of personal and professional skills into practice
- Understanding of the CPA process
- Demonstrable post registration experience as an RMN
- Professional experience of working in an older adults' setting
- Experience of MDT working
- Skills in coordinating and planning interagency approaches in mental health care.
- Experience of assessing and managing risk
- Experience of working in the community
- Experience of working with statutory and non- statutory agencies.
- Experience of working at Band 6 level
- Experience of managing risk
- Experience of delivering evidence-based treatments.
- Experience of cognitive testing
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Willingness to undertake additional training
- Evidence of post registration training
- Non-medical Prescriber (or will to undertake this training)
- Counselling Qualification Venepuncture Qualification PSI Training
- Skills/Knowledge
- Ability to use initiative and work without immediate supervision
- Knowledge of cognitive testing processes
- Knowledge and understanding of the legislative framework for mental health services, particularly the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act & NICE Guidelines.
- Ability to work as part of a multiprofessional team
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding, empathic approach
- Skills in co-ordinating and planning interagency approaches in mental health care
- An understanding of current mental health issues
- An understanding of dementia diagnoses and associated treatment options and nursing interventions required
- Excellent report writing skills
- IT skills
- Excellent assessment skills- communication skills, establishing a rapport, focusing on gathering pertinent information, probing questions and ability to assimilate within your mental health knowledge to agree an appropriate outcome and plan.
- Completing robust, initial risk assessments and ability to review historic risk
- Understanding of the importance of user/carer involvement in care planning
- Understanding of local Safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Ability to pri
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Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHSFT
Community Mental Health Nurse
The closing date is 15 September 2026
Job summary
The Older Adults Mental Health Team has an exciting opportunity for an experienced older adult mental health nurse to join our team.
Do you have a passion for working within older adult mental health? Then come and join the team and meet likeminded people.
The Older Adults Team is working with GPs, offering advice and guidance to support patients living with Dementia.
This role will involve offering reviews for patients within the Dementia Pathway, in accessible locations across North Lincolnshire. Networking between Primary Care and Secondary Care Services is a central part of the role to ensure the patients journey between services is seamless and care and treatment is provided in a timely manner. The role will also involve working with the wider team to triage and offer routine mental health assessments to older adults experiencing mental health problems within Primary Care.
Main duties of the job
As a member of the Older Adults Mental Health Team the post holder will provide high quality nursing interventions within the Dementia Pathway.
The post holder will be an enthusiastic, highly organised and motivated mental health professional who can provide high quality nursing expertise and support to those affected by dementia.
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