Community Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

We are looking for a motivated and compassionate Band 5 Community Mental Health Nurse to join our Primary Care Mental Health Network (PCMHN) team covering the Harthill and River & Wolds localities.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the front end of community mental health services, supporting individuals with mild to moderate mental health needs within primary care settings.

You will play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care, including:

• Undertaking comprehensive mental health assessments and risk assessments

• Developing and reviewing personalised care plans

• Delivering low-level, evidence-based interventions including structured clinical management and guided self-help

• Providing trauma-informed care, including stabilisation work

• Supporting individuals to build coping strategies and improve wellbeing

You will work as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, with strong links across Humber services including PCMHNs, CMHTs, Crisis Teams, and Talking Therapies.

The role also involves partnership working with external services such as Addiction services, Evolve (eating disorders), and Autism services, including joint working and shared care planning.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake comprehensive mental health assessments, including risk assessment, within a primary care setting.

• To develop, implement, and review person-centred care plans in collaboration with service users, carers, and the wider multidisciplinary team.

• To deliver low-level, evidence-based interventions, including structured clinical management, guided self-help, psychoeducation, and trauma-informed stabilisation work.

• To provide trauma-informed care that is safe, compassionate, and responsive to individual needs.

• To support individuals to develop coping strategies, emotional regulation skills, and improve overall mental wellbeing.

• To work collaboratively within the Primary Care Mental Health Network and wider Humber services, including CMHTs, Crisis Teams, and Talking Therapies.

• To engage in partnership working with external services such as Addiction services, Evolve (eating disorders), and Autism services, including joint working and shared care planning.

• To participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, case discussions, and joint assessments to ensure coordinated and effective care.

• To manage a defined caseload, prioritising workload effectively and working both independently and as part of a team.

• To work flexibly across a range of settings, including GP practices, community venues, and remote/home working.

• To travel across the East Riding area as required to meet service needs.

About us

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.

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