# Community Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-nurse/d5ee40fd-baba-4fd1-b42a-c9f8a6159933 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/community-nurse/d5ee40fd-baba-4fd1-b42a-c9f8a6159933.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St Nicholas Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (community and district) - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum - **Contract type:** 24 months (24 months Fixed Term) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-25T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-21T08:00:30.762Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/Ashington/Cumbria_Northumberland_Tyne_Wear_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Mental_Health/Mental_Health-v8382629 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8382629?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cntw.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Northumberland Recovery Partnership have an exciting opportunity for a band 5 registered nurse to join our team. The team consists of a well-established mix of professionals that work collaboratively to deliver individualised care. The role involves individualised clinical assessment, care planning, formulation, and collaborative working across the multi-agency team. The applicant will be expected to demonstrate leadership within the team, providing supervision and supporting students. The post holder will represent the Trust in a number of forums and develop links with external agencies to ensure that service users have clear pathways into appropriate services. You will have excellent communication, time management and organisational skills. You must have a strong commitment to the delivery of high-quality safe care. You should have an interest in working within a busy and challenging environment as well as the ability to demonstrate a warm, person centred approach to care. You will work in a highly supported environment and will be provided with training opportunities to further develop your knowledge and skills. ### Main duties of the job Physical health Nurse The opportunity to work within our physical health pathway The role entails working with those affected by substance and alcohol misuse that may have a range of physical health needs alongside. The role will be to provide safe and effective interventions, harm reduction advice and use of psychosocial interventions to support service users to consider and achieve recovery. The post holder will work within a multi-disciplinary team to provide care to those affected by substance use. The post holder will complete comprehensive physical health assessments in line with Trust standards and offer appropriate interventions, onward referrals and monitoring of health. Your role will be pivotal in addressing health inequalities within areas of deprivation, delivering essential care to those who’s physical health is negatively impacted by substance and alcohol misuse. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please find attached job description for full details. Advertising date : 21st October 2026 Closing date : 25th October 2026 We welcome your application. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Skills and Competencies **Essential** - Ability to use IT system - Comprehensive continuous assessment of skills - Risk Assessment skills. - Risk Management and Safety Planning skills. - Ability to establish a rapport and demonstrate engagement skills with service users ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Knowledge of relevant contemporary professional theories of mental health care and evidence based interventions. - Understanding of the statutory issues which impact on service users. - Nursing Degree ### Education and Qualifications **Essential** - First Level Registration RMN/RNMH/RNLD Qualification - Experience of working with service users and carers in successful delivery of treatment plans - Complete preceptorship programme for newly qualified nurses - Multi-disciplinary team work. - Proven ability to develop therapeutic partnership with service users and carers. - Proven ability to be able to communicate interventions to service users. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 471.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10711602) ## 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.