Community Nurse
The closing date is 13 November 2025
Job summary
We are excited to offer a full-time Band 5 Community Nurse post within the Gateshead Community Treatment Team in the West of Gateshead. The postholder must obtain a nursing and midwifery council registration and hold a nursing degree or qualification equivalent.
We are committed to delivering high quality patient centred care and pride ourselves on good team working skills. It is therefore important that the successful candidate holds excellent interpersonal and communication skills to meet the needs of the patients, carers, families and the partners with whom we work.
As a Community Nurse, you will have a genuine interest in collaborative working with adults with severe and enduring mental health needs.
As a registered professional under the NMC, this is an ideal opportunity for someone who wants to develop their community clinical skills.
As a core member of the team, you will also be responsible for your own caseload, providing ongoing assessment, safety planning, agreeing collaborative care plans as a Key Worker, and delivering evidence based intervention in the community.
Part of your role will involve working within the teams depot clinic & clozapine clinic, which provides medication management, monitoring and administration.
Main duties of the job
- Provide direct care and therapeutic support to individuals with mental health conditions.
- Creating collaborative care plans with service users.
- Arranging review appointments in keeping with service specification and the service user's point in their care pathway.
- In collaboration with service users, reviewing their mental and physical health, wellbeing and progress towards goals.
- Producing written records of reviews in the electronic patient record and completing all relevant paperwork associated with reviews, including letters.
- Work as part of a multidisciplinary team, coordinating with doctors, social workers, psychologists, and other healthcare providers.
- Complete referral's to other services for further ongoing support where needed.
- Using clinical supervision effectively.
- Conducting risk assessments andde-escalating crisis situations.
- Building therapeutic relationships with patients.
- Collaborating with families and other healthcare professionals.
- Administering and handling of depot injection medications.
- Promote recovery.
- Have awareness of the mental health act & support patient by providing in reach support to wards.
About us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.
Details
Date posted
30 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
263-CCG25-361-MG
Job locations
Dryden Road Clinic
134 Dryden Rd
Gateshead
NE9 5BY
Employer details
Employer name
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Dryden Road Clinic
134 Dryden Rd
Gateshead
NE9 5BY
Employer's website
https://www.cntw.nhs.uk/careers/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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