Care Home In Reach Nurse

Care Home In Reach Nurse

30 HOURS PER WEEK

The closing date is 17 June 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for a Qualified RMN or RGN to join our well established care home in reach team, a countywide service.

The team supports residents of care homes living with dementia or those over 65 with a functional mental health illness.

The service operates Monday to Friday, 9-5, excluding bank holidays. Flexible working patterns will be considered. The team is based at the grounds of Belmont Abbey, a peaceful rural location 2 miles from Hereford, with plenty of free parking.

We pride ourselves on providing outstanding care to patients.

We will provide you with resources to progress a long term career and flexibility, continual professional development, wellbeing and support.

We welcome informal discussion/visits-please contact Vicki Newman .

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of patients to ensure timely assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
• Monitor treatments and implement changes to improve effectiveness.
• Perform effective and timely discharge planning and coordination.
• Undertake and understand physical health observations, taking appropriate action when necessary.
• Monitor, evaluate and modify treatments to measure progress.
• Apply high-level understanding of dementia and mental health conditions, providing advice on management, healthy lifestyles and wellbeing.
• Carry out complex risk assessment.
• Provide timely and accurate reporting and escalation of incidents and safeguarding concerns.
• Attend weekly multidisciplinary meetings.
• Act consistently with the values and beliefs of the organisation and promote these on a day to day basis.
• Serve as a role model to colleagues, maintaining the highest standards of professionalism.
• Use initiative and take responsibility for own work and service quality.
• Work as part of the multidisciplinary team across clinical pathways.
• Manage complex needs using evidence based, patient centred principles.
• Support patients and carers to achieve outcomes via the recovery model.
• Provide leadership for junior staff through supervision and appraisal.
• Participate in planning, development and evaluation of services and manage defined projects.
• Supervise students on practice placement.

About us

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust delivers community hospitals and health services across Worcestershire and provides mental health and learning disability services across both counties.

Our 4,500+ staff serve people of all ages and conditions from over 100 sites.

What we offer

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 days with long service.
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay for unsocial hours.
• Flexible and agile working opportunities.
• Great maternity, paternity and adoption support.
• Wide range of supportive staff networks.
• Health and wellbeing opportunities.

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
• A positive attitude and ability to act on feedback.
• Ability to praise and support others.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English, verbally and in written formats.
• Ability to work autonomously and set own priorities.
• Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues.
• Supervisory and appraisal skills.
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise performance.
• Ability to organise and respond efficiently to complex information.
• Ability to build effective working relationships.
• Ability to use a variety of IT systems and databases.
• Presentation and training skills.

Experience

• Documented evidence of continuing professional development.
• Significant post registration experience in mental health.
• Minimum 1 year within related specialty.
• Extensive clinical experience, including individual and group work.
• Experience in varied mental health settings.
• Supervision of junior staff and students.
• Leadership and first line management experience.
• Implementation of psychological therapies.

Knowledge

• Specialist knowledge and application of relevant interventions.
• Knowledge and experience of audit procedures.
• Detailed knowledge of mental health legislation and current practice.
• Knowledge of clinical governance principles and application.
• Knowledge of Person Centred Care.
• Knowledge of risk assessment.
• Multidisciplinary team working.
• Knowledge and application of standardised assessments.

Qualifications

• RMN (Degree/Diploma and working towards degree).
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Dementia training.

Additional Criteria

• Commitment to patient centred non discriminatory practice.
• Commitment to lifelong learning.
• Able to meet travel requirements.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous convictions.

Equal Opportunities

We value diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities.

Data Sharing

Sharing your data - As a data controller we may process your data to pursue our legitimate business interests, for example to request a survey (optional), to support the Trust's understanding of where you gained interest in working for the Trust.