Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a Staff Nurse at Lee Mill Low Secure Unit, a 12-bed male inpatient ward specializing in complex mental health care. The nurse will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care programmes for patients, acting as a named nurse and taking charge of the unit regularly. The position involves working with a multidisciplinary team to support patients in transitioning back to the community, focusing on building social networks and increasing participation in meaningful activities. It requires working a 24/7 shift pattern and attending physical interventions training.
Essential criteria
- RMN/Dip HE BSc Mental Health RNLD NMC Registration.
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship qualification
- Specific Skills
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner within a team including: -Assessment skills.
- -Communication and liaison skills.
- -Leadership skills/ Supervisory skills.
- -Team working skills.
- \- Self-management ability.
- -Prioritising workload/resources
- -Administration skills.
- -Interpersonal skills.
- -Computer skills.
- \- Risk assessment management.
- -Crisis management.
- \- Lone working.
- -De-escalation skills
- -Ability to recognise and support stress in others.
- -Group Interaction Skills.
- -Specific Therapeutic interventions.
- -Positive risk management.
- -Good working knowledge of the Care Quality Commission.
- -Car driver
- \- Multi-disciplinary working
- \- Relevant transferable healthcare experience of working with adults with a history of mental health issues.
- -Supervising junior staff
- -Undertake line Management and appraisals
- -Networking with other agencies.
- -Team working
- -Confidentiality.
- -Knowledge base of mental illnesses
- -Current knowledge of developments and nursing in healthcare -Safeguarding and MCA processes and frameworks
- -Mental Health Act
- -MCA/DOLS.
- -Completion of CPA and Care Co-ordination competencies
- \- Physically fit and able to undertake physical Intervention training and annual updates
- -Knowledge of NICE guidelines in relation to mental health and the ability to apply evidence-based practice.
- -Physical Health/Health promotion initiatives
- -Ethical issues in relation to Mental Health.
- -Familiarisation in working with electronic patient record systems
- -Interest and awareness of national and local services developments.
- -Knowledge of substance misuse and the impact of this on mental and physical health.
- RMN/Dip HE BSc Mental Health RNLD NMC Registration.
- Mentorship qualification
- Specific Skills
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner within a team including: -Assessment skills.
- -Communication and liaison skills.
- -Leadership skills/ Supervisory skills.
- -Team working skills.
- \- Self-management ability.
- -Prioritising workload/resources
- -Administration skills.
- -Interpersonal skills.
- -Computer skills.
- \- Risk assessment management.
- -Crisis management.
- \- Lone working.
- -De-escalation skills
- -Ability to recognise and support stress in others.
- -Group Interaction Skills.
- -Specific Therapeutic interventions.
- -Positive risk management.
- -Good working knowledge of the Care Quality Commission.
- -Car driver
- \- Multi-disciplinary working
- \- Relevant transferable healthcare experience of working with adults with a history of mental health issues.
- -Supervising junior staff
- -Undertake line Management and appraisals
- -Networking with other agencies.
- -Team working
- -Confidentiality.
- -Knowledge base of mental illnesses
- -Current knowledge of developments and nursing in healthcare -Safeguarding and MCA processes and frameworks
- -Mental Health Act
- -MCA/DOLS.
- -Completion of CPA and Care Co-ordination competencies
- \- Physically fit and able to undertake physical Intervention training and annual updates
- -Knowledge of NICE guidelines in relation to mental health and the ability to apply evidence-based practice.
- -Physical Health/Health promotion initiatives
- -Ethical issues in relation to Mental Health.
- -Familiarisation in working with electronic patient record systems
- -Interest and awareness of national and local services developments.
- -Knowledge of substance misuse and the impact of this on mental and physical health.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
37.5 hours per week.
Are you a qualified nurse who is looking for an exciting and challenging role supporting gentlemen with complex mental health and additional associated risks to transition back to the community? Would you like to join our highly skilled and supportive team providing excellent levels of care and robust clinical risk management?
Are you motivated, creative and passionate about supporting individuals to make positive changes to their lives, often after early trauma and adverse childhood experiences? If so we would like to hear from you.
Lee Mill Low Secure Unit is a 12-bed male inpatient ward just outside of Plymouth. We provide specialist mental health care for men who have often been involved in the legal system due to their mental health needs. The staff at Lee Mill are passionate about providing the highest level of patient centred care to an often challenging and disadvantaged patient group.
As a valued member of the team, you will receive regular supervision and support from psychological services along with continuing professional development. We offer training in relevant therapies and approaches for this client group including essential training for staff working within secure services.
Due to the nature of the role, all staff are required to attend a physical interventions training session to ensure we can meet the needs of our pati
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