Registered Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 19/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Registered Nurse on Powell Ward, providing direct personal care to service users without direct supervision. The post holder will deliver high-quality, safe nursing care, ensuring clinical excellence and compliance with NMC standards. Key responsibilities include leading comprehensive service user assessments, planning and evaluating person-centred care, and coordinating care with the multi-disciplinary team. The role also involves supervising junior staff, maintaining a safe environment, and accurate record-keeping.
Key responsibilities
- Co-ordinating and evaluating collaborative patient-centred care, incorporating feedback from the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
- Providing accurate and accessible information about care to patients and their relatives.
- Administering and monitoring medication, including side-effects, and ensuring safe custody of medicines and clinical equipment.
- Leading and directing junior staff in providing hands-on care, including 1-1 engagement with service users.
- Developing care plans that reflect service user needs, working in partnership with service users, MDT, and family.
- Monitoring and recording service user clinical observations, escalating any signs of deterioration, and promoting healthy lifestyles.
Essential criteria
- Degree in Mental Health Nurse
- Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice.
- Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation
- Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user's needs, without close supervision.
- Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
- Self-aware, self-confident and intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others.
- Forms very effective working relationships with colleagues.
- Advocates for all individuals, particularly those with protected characteristics; promotes equality and diversity
Desirable criteria
- NMC PIN (UK License) only.
- Experience of shift co-ordination
- Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students
- IT skills, Skilled. Skilled in supervision of others, and in providing critical and constructive feedback.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £38,488 – £46,852 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Registered Nurse
The closing date is 19 September 2026
Job summary
We have a vacancy in Powell Ward for a registered nurse. As a registered nurse you provide direct personal care to service users/ patients, without direct supervision, and co-ordinate the care given by colleagues.
The post holder will deliver high quality safe nursing care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct.
The role includes leading the delivery of comprehensive service user assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of person-cantered care in a collaborative way. The post holder will co-ordinate a first class service that includes assessment and monitoring of physical health, maintaining service users rights, supervising junior staff and students, working collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and maintaining a safe and therapeutic working environment and accurate records.
Main duties of the job
Co-ordinating and evaluating collaborative patient-centred care; getting feedback and improving plans with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
Providing accurate information about care in an accessible format to patients and their relatives .
Liaising and working positively with members of the multi- discipli
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