Staff Nurse - Secure Inpatients Service
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Hours / week
- 22.5
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
Join Ridgeway Secure Inpatient Services as a Registered Nurse, supporting the recovery, rehabilitation, and empowerment of service users with mental health disorders, learning disabilities, or autism. This role involves providing specialist care within Medium and Low Secure inpatient settings, working collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team. You will practice a full range of psychiatric skills and interventions, from assessment to treatment and recovery. The position requires shift work, including occasional nights, on a rotational basis.
Key responsibilities
- Maintaining patients' dignity, privacy and safety at all times; assessing risk.
- Adhering to mental capacity and mental health act.
- Recognising potential signs of harm and ensuring patients are safeguarded.
- Maintaining high professional standards.
- Delivering and planning evidenced based care in collaboration with the patient, families and wider MDT.
- Assessing patient need and delivering appropriate and timely interventions.
- Safe administration and storage of medicines.
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council RNMH or RNLD
- To be recognised practice assessor / mentor or work towards in an agreed timescale
- Trained Clinical Supervisor (within 6 month probationary period)
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Working with people with mental ill health / learning disabilities
- Working in a person centred therapeutic organisation
- Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Working in partnership with other agencies
- Evidence based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
- Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act)
- Understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
- Clinical Governance and its application in practice
- Confident working knowledge of clinical medicines management, including administration of injections
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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Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse - Secure Inpatients Service
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
Join Ridgeway Secure Inpatient Services as a Registered Nurse.
Ridgeway Secure Inpatient Services is seeking diverse, dynamic, and enthusiastic Registered Nurses to join our dedicated team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting the recovery, rehabilitation, and empowerment of our service users.
At Ridgeway, we provide specialist care for adults with mental health disorders, learning disabilities, or autism who present behaviours that may pose risks to themselves or others. Our service delivers individualised and comprehensive care packages within both Medium and Low Secure inpatient settings, with strong links to High Secure services and the wider justice system.
This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa
Main duties of the job
Our vision is to provide a centre of excellence within secure inpatient care that is busy, rewarding, where you will get to practice a full range of psychiatric skills & inte
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