Senior Specialist Nurse Advisor - Mental Health
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves delivering occupational health services, focusing on mental health support for staff. The post holder will provide professional nursing leadership, manage nursing staff, and contribute to policy development within the Occupational Health, Wellbeing and Staff Psychology department. It requires a registered clinician with significant mental health nursing experience, ideally in occupational health.
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse _ if applying as a mental health nurse
- Registered Nurse (SCPH-OH) - if applying as a Senior OHA with extensive mental health complex case experience
- Occupational Health Certificate/Diploma/BSc.
- Management qualification
- Knowledge and Experience
- Drafting policies and procedures or service guidelines using evidence-based practice
- Supervising, teaching and mentorship skills
- Health and Safety legislation
- Experience of working with a variety of complex psychiatric, psychological and neurodivergent cases within an MDT structure
- Skills and Competencies
- Leadership and influencing skills
- Experience in writing reports and collating statistics
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to assess and support five cases per day on a 7.5hrs shift
- Ability to manage own boundaries and resilience when supporting complex mental health cases, some of whom will require a degree of safeguarding referrals onwards
- Education and Qualifications
- Registered Mental Health Nurse _ if applying as a mental health nurse
- Registered Nurse (SCPH-OH) - if applying as a Senior OHA with extensive mental health complex case experience
- Occupational Health Certificate/Diploma/BSc.
- Management qualification
- Knowledge and Experience
- Drafting policies and procedures or service guidelines using evidence-based practice
- Supervising, teaching and mentorship skills
- Health and Safety legislation
- Experience of working with a variety of complex psychiatric, psychological and neurodivergent cases within an MDT structure
- Skills and Competencies
- Leadership and influencing skills
- Experience in writing reports and collating statistics
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to assess and support five cases per day on a 7.5hrs shift
- Ability to manage own boundaries and resilience when supporting complex mental health cases, some of whom will require a degree of safeguarding referrals onwards
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
- Evidence of OH post qualification study at BSc/MSc level
- Knowledge and Experience Essential
- Drafting policies and procedures or service guidelines using evidence-based practice
- Supervising, teaching and mentorship skills
- Health and Safety legislation
- Safeguarding in complex mental health and general health cases
- Skills and Competencies Essential
- Leadership and influencing skills
- Experience in writing reports and collating statistics
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- The ability to act dynamically and respond to work challenges with high levels of personal resilience and the maintenance of professional standards.
- Job description
- Job responsibilities
- To deputise for the Deputy Head of Nursing as required.
- Provide professional mentorship to the Occupational Health nursing staff.
- Act as a team leader, maintaining clinical responsibility for overseeing the Band 6 special nurse advisors, Band 5 practice nurses, administrators and bank/agency staff work on a day-to-day basis, ensuring clinical activity is delivered.
- Carry out supervision, support, and appraisal and lead on any project work as directed by the HoN/GM and Deputy Head of Nursing.
- To monitor the work of all Occupational Health Nurses in training and practice nurses to ensure high clinical standards are maintained.
- To lead in the development of policies, procedures, SOPs and clinical operating guidelines which are in line with evidence-based best practice.
- To ensure agreed standards are met by participating in clinical audit.
- To monitor Occupational Health activity and produce activity reports as directed by the HoN/GM.
- To attend Infection Control, Risk Management and Health & Safety forums for the Trust, and undertake advisory work on behalf of these as directed by the HoN/GM and Deputy Head of Nursing.
- To ensure active and effective delivery of Occupational Health services to the Trust and external clients.
- Work with the HoN/GM to be responsible for rolling out National initiatives and standards produced by the Department of health and other Government bodies.
- Promote equity and valuing diversity.
- To work closely with the Occupational Health Physicians and OH therapists to case manage referrals and implement care within prescribed parameters.
- Contract management and assistance with SLA development as directed by the Service Manager.
- To delegate work streams to junior staff as appropriate.
- Person Specification Education and Qualification Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse/Registered Nurse with SCPHN(OH) and extensive complex mental health case experience
- Occupational Health Certificate/Diploma/BSc.
- Management qualification
- Evidence of OH post qualification study at BSc/MSc level
- Knowledge and Experience Essential
- Drafting policies and procedures or service guidelines using evidence-based practice
- Supervising, teaching and mentorship skills
- Health and Safety legislation
- Safeguarding in complex mental health and general health cases
- Skills and Competencies Essential
- Leadership and influencing skills
- Experience in writing reports and collating statistics
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- The ability to act dynamically and respond to work challenges with high levels of personal resilience and the maintenance of professional standards.
- Education and Qualifications
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Specialist Nurse Advisor - Mental Health
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
The post holder is a key team member in the delivery of occupational health services to Kings College Hospital NHS Trust and associated external contracts. The post holder will ensure that a proactive, comprehensive Occupational Health Service is provided and delivered to the highest standard of evidence-based best practice.
The post holder will work with the wider service multidisciplinary team:
OH medical consultants, OH psychiatrist, OH Staff Psychology, OH Allied Healthcare Practitioners, OH Advisers and the business support team.
The postholder will be required to travel across our sites as required and should, ideally, have access to a car and a full driving licence.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a registered and practicing clinician with significant knowledge and specialist experience in Mental Health Nursing and ideally, in an occupational health nursing.
This post is needed to support the prevalence of staff cases impacted by mental health as a leading condition(s), alongside other comorbidities. As an organisation, we are genuinely committed to helping our staff be enabled in their employment journey.
The post holder will provide professional nursing leadership and take responsibility fo
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