# Community Mental Health Nurse band 5-6 transition post > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-mental-health-nurse-band-5-6-transition-post/821669db-8c9a-4e6c-9751-f19d223a2e9b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-mental-health-nurse-band-5-6-transition-post/821669db-8c9a-4e6c-9751-f19d223a2e9b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Stafford - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 PA - **Contract type:** Permanent: Band 5-6 progression post - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00) - **Closing date:** 2026-07-13T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-29T15:13:08.662Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Staffordshire/Telford/Midlands_Partnership_University_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health_Nursing/Mental_Health_Nursing-v8091443 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8091443?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.mpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview A rewarding opportunity has arisen for a Community Mental Health Nurse within the Intensive Life Skills Team based in Shropshire. We are a specialist community team working within the area of complex emotional needs providing assessment, formulation and intervention primarily using a Structured Clinical Management (SCM) framework. Our focus is on treatment, recovery and enablement to increase emotional social and practical functioning, through a combination of group skill based learning and individual therapy. The post is a band 5-6 development role and the appointed applicant will have the opportunity to access further development and training within this role. ### Main duties of the job - As part of this role, you will be working in a specialist adult community mental health pathway, providing evidenced based interventions for an identified caseload of service users. - You will be responsible for undertaking assessments in accordance with the clinical pathway, to establish the person’s needs, goals, risks, and strengths, to inform and generate a formulation-based care plan, agreed with all involved. - Responsibility for delivering evidenced based therapeutic interventions on a 1:1 and group basis, in accordance with an agreed care plan. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The ideal candidate: - A relevant mental health nursing qualification -RMN - Post qualification experience, such as evidence of formal courses or training relevant to working with people with complex mental health needs, related to emotional instability. - Ability to deliver group and individual interventions. - Ability to work with service users expressing high levels of distress. - A positive attitude and a caring and compassionate approach. - Good communication skills - Passionate about working within this area of care Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications Before applying for this exciting and rewarding job opportunity, we encourage you to view the attached job description and person specification. For further details / informal visits contact: Name Stephanie Leach Job title ILS Shropshire Operational Lead Email address \[email protected\] ## Job Details A rewarding opportunity has arisen for a Community Mental Health Nurse within the Intensive Life Skills Team based in Shropshire. We are a specialist community team working within the area of complex emotional needs providing assessment, formulation and intervention primarily using a Structured Clinical Management (SCM) framework. Our focus is on treatment, recovery and enablement to increase emotional social and practical functioning, through a combination of group skill based learning and individual therapy. The post is a band 5-6 development role and the appointed applicant will have the opportunity to access further development and training within this role. ## Job Description As part of this role, you will be working in a specialist adult community mental health pathway, providing evidenced based interventions for an identified caseload of service users. You will be responsible for undertaking assessments in accordance with the clinical pathway, to establish the person’s needs, goals, risks, and strengths, to inform and generate a formulation-based care plan, agreed with all involved. Responsibility for delivering evidenced based therapeutic interventions on a 1:1 and group basis, in accordance with an agreed care plan. ## Responsibilities The ideal candidate: A relevant mental health nursing qualification -RMN Post qualification experience, such as evidence of formal courses or training relevant to working with people with complex mental health needs, related to emotional instability. Ability to deliver group and individual interventions. Ability to work with service users expressing high levels of distress. A positive attitude and a caring and compassionate approach. Good communication skills Passionate about working within this area of care Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications Before applying for this exciting and rewarding job opportunity, we encourage you to view the attached job description and person specification. For further details / informal visits contact: Name Stephanie Leach Job title ILS Shropshire Operational Lead Email address \[email protected\] ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - - Post registration experience with working with adults experiencing mental health related difficulties. **Desirable** - Experience of working with people who have difficulty in engaging with services and who have complex emotional mental health needs - Experience working in a community mental health setting - Experience of assessing, planning and working alongside people with mental health problems in a community setting. - Experience delivering groups ### Qualifications **Essential** - A relevant mental health Nursing qualification and NMC registration **Desirable** - Post qualification experience, such as evidence of formal courses or training relevant to working with people with complex mental health needs related to emotional instability. - - Psychological intervention Qualification / training, including EMDR, CBT, MBT, Family Interventions, CAT, DBT, SCM. ## Documents - [benefits booklet (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2957) - [job description and person specification band 5-6 (pdf, 520.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10400586) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.