Lead Clinical Nurse – Community Mental Health Older Adults Team
This role is predominately based within the South Warwickshire locality, depending on service need there will be times when across cover may be required across all three localities including Coventry and North Warwickshire.
As a Lead Clinical Nurse within the Community Mental Health Older Adults teams, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high‑quality, person‑centred mental health care to older people with complex needs with both functional and organic mental health needs. You will provide advanced clinical expertise and professional leadership to ensure safe, effective, and compassionate care is delivered across the older adults community pathway.
This role is ideal for an experienced mental health nurse who thrives on clinical leadership, multidisciplinary collaboration, and driving improvements in care for older adults.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert assessment, formulation, and evidence‑based interventions for older adults with complex mental health presentations, including dementia, severe mental illness, and co‑morbid physical health needs.
- Lead on risk assessment and management, ensuring robust safety planning and crisis response, taking a risk formulation approach to support positive risk taking.
- Offer specialist clinical advice and consultation to colleagues, partner agencies, carers, and families.
- Act as a clinical role model, promoting high standards of practice and compassionate care.
- Provide day‑to‑day clinical leadership to nursing staff and wider MDT colleagues, supporting effective caseload management and prioritisation.
- Deliver per to per supervision, mentorship, and reflective practice sessions to support staff development and wellbeing.
- Support the induction of new team members.
- Foster a positive, inclusive, and learning‑focused team culture.
- Monitor clinical standards, audit outcomes, and contribute to service evaluation.
- Support the implementation of new models of care, pathways, and evidence‑based interventions.
- Advocate for the needs of older adults and their carers, promoting dignity, autonomy, and personalised care.
Qualifications
- Registered Mental Health Nurse (NMC) with substantial post‑registration experience.
- Demonstrated expertise in older adult mental health, dementia care, or complex community mental health.
- Strong leadership skills with experience supervising or mentoring staff.
- Advanced assessment, formulation, and risk‑management capabilities.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work autonomously while contributing to a multidisciplinary team.
- Commitment to equality, diversity, and trauma‑informed, person‑centred care.
- Non‑medical prescribing qualification (or willingness to work towards it).
- Experience working across integrated health and social care systems.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust we put ‘people at our heart. This ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
Benefits
- Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us.
- Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more.
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more.
- Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes.
- Wellbeing support, including an in‑house counselling service, external helpline and more.
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Apr 2026.
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