Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Community Mental Health Nurse
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9am-5pm)
- Job ref
- 338-7209591-25
- Employer
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bridlington and Driffield Mental Health Team
- Town
- Bridlington
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Specialist Community Mental Health Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
Are you passionate about supporting working aged adults to have good mental health? Are you a recovery focused and creative mental health nurse who wants to work in a supportive and well established multi-disciplinary team? An opportunity has become available to work at the Bridlington and Driffield Mental Health Team.
As an employer Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are dedicated to being a best practice example of inter-professional working in mental health. As part of this we encourage and provide opportunities for continued professional development and regular supervision to help develop nursing confidence, skills and career.
This post will be based in Bridlington with expectation to work into Driffield when service demand requires. Due to the geographical nature of the post it is essential that you can drive and have access to a car.
Main duties of the job
As a key worker / care coordinator you will provide support and interventions to promote mental health recovery. Establishing therapeutic relationships with service users and their family / carers.
- Develop and deliver recovery focused care in collaboration with service users and their family /carers.
- Provide information and psycho education surrounding mental health conditions and medication.
- Uphold legal frameworks which underpin service delivery.
- Assess risks, the management of risks and effectiveness of interventions.
- Deliver recovery based and risk management interventions with complex clients.
- Signposting / referral to external services when required.
- Develop good working relationships with neighbouring teams to enable effective co-working and responsive transfers of care if necessary.
- Act as duty officer on a rota basis
- Involvement in Clozapine Clinic
- Administration and monitoring of medication.
- Supervise other members of the team and students.
- Leadership to support the team day to day and in meetings.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information for this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifiactions & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse on NMC live register
- Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. The Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act.
- IT skills for learning systems required for role e.g. electronic patient record, clinical stock ordering systems, incident reporting systems.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous community based experience or band 6 experience transferrable to community setting Experience of leading on complex care delivery
- Experience of leading on complex care delivery
- Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
Desirable criteria
- Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
- Ability to effectively Chair meetings
Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria
- Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
- Ability to effectively transport self between multiple addresses/venues on a daily basis including transporting, clients, equipment & clinical stock required for treatment.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Cole
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01262 401292
- Additional information
If you have any questions about this post or would like to meet the team please do get in touch and contact Louise Cole (Team Manager) or Katie Shaw (Clinical Lead) on 01262 401292.
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