Staff Nurse - Registered Mental Health Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This Staff Nurse position is based at HMP Swaleside, working within the Primary Care Nursing Team, with occasional cross-cover at nearby Kent prisons. The role involves delivering high-quality, personalised care to service users, providing specialist interventions, and ensuring clinical excellence in line with NMC standards. The post holder will lead assessments, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient-centred care, and provide clinical supervision to junior colleagues. This role requires a registered Mental Health Nurse to support an integrated care service.
Essential criteria
- Professional NMC Qualification (Registered Mental Health Nurse)
- Professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree level or equivalent.
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing healthcare in chosen area of specialism
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
- Experience of research-based/reflective practice.
- Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to present ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
- Ability to work effectively and autonomously
- Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and plan ahead.
- Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers, and colleagues.
- Education/Qualifications
- Professional NMC Qualification (Registered Mental Health Nurse)
- Professional, clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree level or equivalent.
- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- Working knowledge of current issues/agendas facing healthcare in chosen area of specialism
- Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care.
- Experience of research-based/reflective practice.
- Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to present ideas with clarity in a persuasive and influential style.
- Ability to work effectively and autonomously
- Ability to lead and empower people to make decisions and plan ahead.
- Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers, and colleagues.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £34,073 – £41,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse - Registered Mental Health Nurse
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
This position is located at HMP Swaleisde within the Primary Care Nursing Team. The post holder will also need to collaborate closely with colleagues at nearby Kent prisons, including HMP Emley and HMP Standford Hill, and may occasionally provide cross-cover between sites.
The Staff Nurse will deliver high quality, personalised, compassionate care to service users, providing a range of specialist interventions.
Ensure consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence, which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct.
Lead the delivery of comprehensive service user assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of patient-centred care in a range of settings.
Provide clinical supervision and support to junior colleagues, including students.
Assist and support the manager, as directed, to deliver a nurse-led integrated care service and develop a specialist practice-based clinical model of care.
Maintain a safe and therapeutic working environment, working collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and maintaining accurate records.
Band 5 Nursing roles are only open to staff with a Nursing registration, obtained as a result of completing a qualification recognised by the Nursing
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