Job Overview

We are seeking a motivated and compassionate mental health nurse to join our Mental Health & Wellness Team (North), providing high-quality, person-centred care within a community setting. This role offers an exciting opportunity to support individuals experiencing a range of mental health and wellbeing needs, working as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver timely, responsive, and recovery-focused interventions.

The post holder will play a key role in assessing needs, planning and delivering interventions, and supporting individuals to improve their mental health, resilience, and overall wellbeing. You will work collaboratively with service users, carers, and partner agencies to ensure a holistic approach to care, promoting recovery, independence and reducing reliance on secondary services.

The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills, sound clinical judgement, and a commitment to delivering safe, effective, and compassionate care.

This role is ideal for someone who is proactive, flexible, and passionate about improving access to mental health support within the community, while contributing to continuous service development and innovation.

Main Duties of the Job

• You will be working as part of our multi-disciplinary team and will coordinate a caseload of service users that have complex and challenging needs.
• As a nurse, you will have the opportunity to work within the wellness clinic to deliver physical and mental health interventions.
• We require good IT skills and knowledge of using electronic recording systems.
• It is essential that you are willing to work flexibly within the demands of the service.
• You will work closely within a multi-disciplinary team and other agencies to deliver recovery-focused health and social care interventions that includes managing risk and the Safeguarding of vulnerable adults.
• The successful candidate will be expected to provide managerial supervision to junior colleagues, mentor MDT students and participate in ongoing educational and research programmes.
• To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
• To deputise when required in the team manager's absence and delegate appropriately to health care assistants.
• To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling.
• To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
• To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
• To supervise pre-registration students.
• To employ professional curiosity in your day-to-day role and act upon any findings appropriately.
• Provide a range of interventions and assessments of patients, including those with multiple pathologies and complex mental health needs, taking into consideration the patient’s physical/cognitive/perceptual skills to identify the patient’s abilities and areas of difficulty.