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In reach Care Home Nurse

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Stratford Upon Avon, CV37 6NQ £49,387 – £56,515 a year Permanent Posted 1 September 2026 Apply by 15 September 2026

Home Office register entry: Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Coventry

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Closest occupation match: SOC 2237, Other registered nursing professionals. Pay for this occupation is set by national pay scales (NHS bands), so no single Home Office going rate applies.

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Role description

Job summary

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.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

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.

  • 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
  • staff networks and support group

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.

Details

Date posted

01 September 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

444-8225614-MH

Job locations

Stratford Healthcare

Arden Street

Stratford Upon Avon

CV37 6NQ

United Kingdom


Job description

Job 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.

Person Specification

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

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

Other

Essential

  • Must have full driving licence and access to a motor vehicle for business use

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Address

Stratford Healthcare

Arden Street

Stratford Upon Avon

CV37 6NQ

United Kingdom


Employer's website

https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/

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