# In reach Care Home Nurse > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/in-reach-care-home-nurse/50d3f6ad-a886-4bef-a721-e894d3a90f90 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/in-reach-care-home-nurse/50d3f6ad-a886-4bef-a721-e894d3a90f90.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust - **Location:** Caludon Centre - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children) - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-15T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-01T08:24:01.881Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Warwickshire/Stratford_Upon_Avon/Coventry_Warwickshire_Partnership_NHS_Trust/Registered_Mental_Health_Nurse/Registered_Mental_Health_Nurse-v8225614 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8225614?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Care Home In Reach Nurse This is a cross county post, covering Coventry and North and South Warwickshire, within the community Older Adults Team working with functional mental illness and dementia This post supports our Hospital at Home Pathway which is a 7 day a week service working between the hours of 08.00-20.00 The focus of this position is: Triage care home referrals- completing a full review at point of triage, to identify needs fully, respond to urgent needs quicker and improve service response time in both routine and urgent referrals . Care Home Liaison- building relationships with care homes across trust ensuring better communication, relationships and improving outcomes for service users who have complex needs Reducing admission to both General and Mental Health Hospital Better response time to urgent situations- as an in reach nurse to be able to respond within 1-2 working days for urgent contacts which will lead to better outcomes for both services and service users Reducing impact on Older Adult Community Mental Health clinicians- as an reach nurse being able to support junior staff Nurses with community care home referrals ### Main duties of the job The main functions of the care home in reach nurse is to support patients within the care home setting to try and prevent placement break and reduction in admission to both general and mental health hospitals In addition the care home in reach nurse will lead on completing Diadems assessments using the Diadem tool to reduce waiting times for patients within care homes who do not have a diagnosis of dementia and support with an increase diagnostic rates within care homes The care home in reach nurse will provide a quicker response to patients to improve the service response time in both routine and urgent referrals . The care home in reach nurse will promote collaborative working with care homes across Coventry and Warwickshire, supporting them to meet the needs of Older Adult patients through enhanced communication, modelling of good practice, skills and knowledge. The care home in reach nurse will deliver strategies and support to enable residents to remain in the care home through crisis avoidance and stabilisation. Reducing placement breakdown and improved patient flow of dementia/ Older Adult patients to care homes. The role reduces the impact on Older Adult Community Mental Health clinicians by providing support with formulation and care planning. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The successful applicant will work across Coventry and Warwickshire to support patients within a care home setting with a focus on placement breakdown, admission avoidance and increase memory assessment using the Diadem assessment tool. As a clinician within the team, we will ensure that you have clinical and professional support from the relevant professionals to support the maintenance of your professional registration. This support will be alongside the supervision and management. Communicate with both internal and external stakeholders, such as service users, carers, other teams, third sector and voluntary organisations on matters which may be complex and/or contentious. Communicate effectively across a wide variety of settings, using tact and diplomacy in response to situations that may be complex and sensitive and may have resulted from conflict. Providing advice and use their initiative and follow organisational procedures in routine and crisis situations Apply communication skills which take account of other communication needs and differences, in order to plan, deliver and evaluate care. Apply enhanced communication skills both oral and written to communicate information within records and reports within their service area. This may also include the need to respond to and offer and reassurance to questions and concerns from a variety of groups, such as service users, carers and other staff/teams. Comply with and implement local and Trust policies and procedures regarding appropriate communication. Be required to lead client reviews within the multi-disciplinary team and act as an advocate for service users Analyse and act on multiple and complex information assuring adherence to local and national guidance, legislation and policy Act within the limits of their competency and authority in line with their professional code of conduct. Will manage and organise competing and conflicting priorities. Review, evaluate and adjust activities in response to changing demands Have the ability to use I.T. systems sensibly and purposefully to meet the needs of the role and will be required to utilise systems safely and securely in line with organisational guidelines. Detailed job description and main responsibilities see separate JD. ### 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 ### Other **Essential** - Must have full driving licence and access to a motor vehicle for business use ### Knowledge **Essential** - Considerable post registration/qualification experience - Highly developed specialist knowledge of safety and quality underpinned by theory and experience. - Supervisory Experience and evidence of supervision training - Evidence of Multi disciplinary and multi-agency working - Evidence of developing the performance of services ### Experience **Essential** - Leadership and supervisory skills - Project management skills - Time management skills - Evidence of Service user/ carer involvement - Extensive knowledge of Clinical Governance, safety and quality measures and Clinical Supervision - Be able to prioritise and manage conflicting demands - Knowledge of Best Practice - Knowledge of Recovery Model focussed ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered Mental Health Nurse - Management Qualification - Degree/Diploma or equivalent - Evidence of CPD - Professional knowledge acquired through degree/ diploma supplemented by specialist training/experience, short courses to masters level equivalent ## Documents - [flexible working policy (pdf, 347.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1155) - [application guidance notes (pdf, 157.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1157) - [terms and conditions nhs jobs (pdf, 19.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1158) - [equality and diversity leaflets (pdf, 838.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1159) - [260093 care home in reach nurse band 7 (pdf, 544.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10555897) - [the prince's trust help 16-30 year olds into work (pdf, 192.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2706) ## 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.