Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 10/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Staff Nurse to join Lamesley Ward, a female adult acute inpatient ward at Bamburgh Clinic, St Nicholas Hospital. The role involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based care for individuals experiencing acute mental health difficulties. You will work collaboratively with patients, carers, and multidisciplinary colleagues to deliver individualised care plans, ensuring safety, wellbeing, and recovery. The post requires working flexibly across a full shift pattern, including days, nights, weekends, and bank holidays.
Key responsibilities
- Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate evidence-based care.
- Work collaboratively with patients, carers, and multidisciplinary colleagues to develop and deliver individualised care plans.
- Support patients through periods of acute mental ill health, ensuring their safety, wellbeing, and recovery.
- Make sound clinical decisions and respond positively to changing service demands.
- Provide support and guidance to Nursing Assistants, students, and less experienced staff.
- Coordinate and deliver clinical care, maintaining high standards of nursing practice.
Essential criteria
- Professional Nursing qualification e.g.RMN/RNMH/ RNLD
- Continued professional development
- Experience of working with service users with complex mental health/learning disability needs
- Clinical Supervision
- Mental Health/ Learning Disabilities needs
- Care Co-ordination
- Safeguarding
- Carer needs
- PMVA
- Risk management and Health and Safety legislation
- Mental health legislation
- NMC standards and professional accountability
- Good interpersonal and Communication skills
- Collaborative working
- Time Management
- Risk Assessment/ Management
Desirable criteria
- Therapy Based Training qualification
- Qualification to Degree level
- ENB 998 / P126/127 or equivalent.
- Student Assessor /Mentor
- Post registration clinical experience
- Clinical Audit
- Patient information system(RIO)
- Leadership
- Presentation
- Debriefing
- Change Management
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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Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse
The closing date is 10 September 2026
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Staff Nurse to join Lamesley Ward , our female adult acute inpatient ward based at Bamburgh Clinic, St Nicholas Hospital , part of Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW).
We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic, and compassionate Registered Nurse who is committed to delivering high-quality, person-centred care to individuals experiencing acute mental health difficulties. This is an excellent opportunity to join a supportive and dynamic multidisciplinary team dedicated to promoting recovery and achieving positive outcomes for patients.
As a Staff Nurse, you will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based care, working collaboratively with patients, carers, and multidisciplinary colleagues to develop and deliver individualised care plans. You will support patients through periods of acute mental ill health, ensuring their safety, wellbeing, and recovery remain at the centre of care delivery.
You will need to be able to work calmly and effectively in challenging situations, make sound clinical decisions, and respond positively to changing service demands while maintaining a compassionate and recovery-focused appr
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