Job overview

Lead Clinical Nurse – Community Mental Health Older Adults Team

This role is predominately based within the South Warwickshire locality, depending on service need there will be times when across cover may be required across all three localities including Coventry and North Warwickshire

As a Lead Clinical Nurse within the Community Mental Health Older Adults teams, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high‑quality, person‑centred mental health care to older people with complex needs with both functional and organic mental health needs.  You will provide advanced clinical expertise and professional leadership to ensure safe, effective, and compassionate care is delivered across the older adults community pathway.

This role is ideal for an experienced mental health nurse who thrives on clinical leadership, multidisciplinary collaboration, and driving improvements in care for older adults.

Main duties of the job

·  Provide expert assessment, formulation, and evidence‑based interventions for older adults with complex mental health presentations, including dementia, severe mental illness, and co‑morbid physical health needs.

·  Lead on risk assessment and management, ensuring robust safety planning and crisis response, taking a risk formulation approach to support positive risk taking.  

·  Offer specialist clinical advice and consultation to colleagues, partner agencies, carers, and families.

·  Act as a clinical role model, promoting high standards of practice and compassionate care.

·  Provide day‑to‑day clinical leadership to nursing staff and wider MDT colleagues, supporting effective caseload management and prioritisation.

·  Delivering per to per supervision, mentorship, and reflective practice sessions to support staff development and wellbeing.

·  Supporting the induction of new team members.

·  Foster a positive, inclusive, and learning‑focused team culture.

·  Monitor clinical standards, audit outcomes, and contribute to service evaluation.

·  Support the implementation of new models of care, pathways, and evidence‑based interventions.

·  Advocate for the needs of older adults and their carers, promoting dignity, autonomy, and personalised care.

Working for our organisation

The Community Mental Health Older Adults team is a developing service.  The team is a supportive, collaborative team environment with strong clinical leadership. With opportunities for professional growth, advanced practice development, and involvement in service innovation. The team gives a chance to make a meaningful difference in the lives of older people and their families.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust we put 'people at our heart. This ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us

Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more

Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more

Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes

Wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.