The closing date is 21 April 2026
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year per annum
Job summary
The Primary care routine pathway within the Comprehensive Emotional Care Mental Health Team has an exciting opportunity for an experienced adult mental health nurse to join our team.
Do you have a passion for working within adult mental health? Then come and join the team and meet likeminded people.
This role will involve offering triage, assessments, reviews and interventions for patients referred to the team, in accessible locations across North Lincolnshire. Networking between Primary Care and Secondary Care Services is a central part of the role to ensure the patients journey between services is seamless and care and treatment is provided in a timely manner. The role will also involve working with the wider team to triage and offer routine mental health assessments to adults experiencing mental health problems within Primary Care.
Main duties of the job
As a member of the Team the post holder will provide high quality nursing assessment and interventions within the primary care routine Pathway.
The post holder will be an enthusiastic, highly organised and motivated mental health professional who can provide high quality nursing expertise and support to patients.
It is essential that the applicant can demonstrate post registration experience as an RMN, which may include inpatient and community settings.
The following tasks and duties will also form part of the role, however this list is not exhaustive:
- Triage of incoming referrals to establish urgency / risk.
- Holistic mental health assessment.
- Development of appropriate treatment plans / signposting to relevant third sector organisations.
- Recruitment, supervision, and deployment of staff.
- Advice, training and induction and mentorship of learners.
- Audit, research and service monitoring.
- Ordering, storage, monitoring and administration of medication.
- Liaison within the multi-disciplinary care team, including carers, voluntary agencies etc.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post registration experience as an RMN
- Professional experience of working in an older adults’ setting
- Experience of MDT working
- Skills in coordinating and planning interagency approaches in mental health care.
- Experience of assessing and managing risk
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health
- Willingness to undertake additional training
- Evidence of post registration training
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Ability to use initiative and work without immediate supervision
- Knowledge of cognitive testing processes.
- Knowledge and understanding of the legislative framework for mental health services
- Ability to work as part of a multiprofessional team
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding, empathic approach
- Skills in co-ordinating and planning interagency approaches in mental health care
- An understanding of current mental health issues
- An understanding of a range of mental health diagnoses and associated treatment options and nursing interventions required
- Excellent report writing skills
- IT Skills
- Excellent assessment skills communication skills, establishing a rapport, focusing on gathering pertinent information, probing questions and ability to assimilate within your mental health knowledge to agree an appropriate outcome and plan.
- Completing robust, initial risk assessments and ability to review historic risk.
- Understanding of the importance of user/carer involvement in care planning
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).