The closing date is 31 May 2026
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
Job summary
We currently have an opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Nurse post accross our South and Central West Manchester Specialist Community Mental Health Teams based at Kingslea House.
Mental health services in Manchester are commencing their journey around Community Transformation. Working towards a new community mental health framework vision for a place-based community mental health model.
As part of this new model, we are looking for a skilled and enthusiastic individual with strong clinical skills who is motivated to support the development of our Specialist CMHTs; with the focus on monitoring and improving the physical health and wellbeing of our patients, using the PHIT assessment tool, as well as safe and effective administration and delivery of medication interventions.
The successful candidate will be an experienced RMN or RGN who will play a key role in the development of a new Physical Health and Medication Management Hub across clinics in our South Manchester and Central West CMHTs.
If you enjoy working within an MDT, are compassionate, hardworking and motivated this is the role for you.
Main duties of the job
Working in a dedicated pathway within a Specialist Community Mental Health Team, the post holder will deliver on all the aspects of physical health care and medication management which includes managing depot clinics. The post holder will be a qualified Registered Mental Health Nurse.
The post holder will work closely with the Senior Practitioners for Nursing, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Medical staff and Care Coordinators and the wider MDT to deliver high quality, safepatient care. The post holder will always work to promote parity of esteem.
They will be responsible for the Infection Prevention and control of the physical health clinics. The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their Carers. The post holder will hold effective communication skills and work closely with a wide network of services such as GP’s, other mental health services and third sector providers.
This will respect individuality, values, culture and religious diversity of clients and colleagues and thus contributing to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs.
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- RMN/ RGN with NMC
- Qualified to degree level in Mental Health Nursing
- Willingness to participate in own continuing professional development within this specialist field
Desirable
- Additional training on blood and ECG interpretation.
- Additional training on health promotion.
- Additional training on common physical health disorders such as diabetes
- Trained smoking cessation advisor.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of managing depot clinics.
- Experience of delivering a full physical health assessment.
- Experience of working independently and managing and prioritising own workload
- Ability to establish good working relationships with a range of providers including GP’s.
- Ability to participate in Clinical Supervision, both as Supervisee and Supervisor
- Involvement in Service development.
Desirable
- Experience of working in dedicated physical health or medicines management roles.
Knowledge
Essential
- Good Knowledge of normal physical health parameters.
- Good Knowledge of a range of interventions to promote physical health for those suffering with mental health problems.
- Good knowledge of the medications used in depot and long-acting injection form along with a good knowledge of the common side effects.
- Good Knowledge and application of Risk Management.
- Good Knowledge of Safeguarding Procedures
- Understanding of current national policy and initiatives in relation to enduring mental health issues and substance misuse.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).