Senior Mental Health Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
“This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role is for an experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) to join the Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Team at HMP Long Lartin. You will manage a caseload, undertake assessments and reviews, and act as a care coordinator within a recovery-focused approach. The position involves delivering evidence-based interventions, facilitating therapeutic group work, and working collaboratively with patients, carers, and multi-disciplinary teams to provide high-quality mental health care within a prison environment.
Key responsibilities
- Take a Recovery focused and holistic approach in working with service users.
- Deliver care and interventions utilising the stepped care model, including provision of the CPA Framework.
- Assess people's needs to develop, implement and evaluate personalised care plans.
- Facilitate therapeutic group work, taking the lead where appropriate.
- Deliver evidenced based interventions.
- Identify people requiring hospital treatment and facilitate the timely transfer under The Mental Health Act.
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Register
- Evidence of recent CPD and compliance with NMC revalidation.
- Teaching Certificate including annual update (ENB 603) or related mentoring / coaching qualification
- Considerable experience of working in the mental health field.
- Experience of providing specialist interventions for those with mental health problems, counselling techniques, CBT, motivational interviewing.
- Experience of providing supervision and line management of staff.
- Must have cat A clearance or be prepared to apply for this.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Senior Mental Health Nurse
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an experienced RMN (Registered Mental Health Nurse) looking to advance and diversify your career as a nurse? Why not break into prison healthcare?
Our Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Team at HMP Long Lartin is looking for a dynamic and experienced registered mental health nurse. Our team is innovative, forward thinking and committed to a recovery focused approach.This is an exciting and diverse role for an individual who is passionate about providing excellent quality nursing care. You will have the privilege to influence and shape the provision of high-quality mental health care to some of society's most vulnerable members.If you:o are an experienced RMN who has a flexible approach, with a drive to clinically innovate;o share our values and are committed to providing high quality care and developing your skills;o have confidence in dealing with a wide range of situations and working with partner agencies to provide the best care to people within the prison;o are enthusiastic about working within an ever-changing prison environment;o enjoy collaborating and working within a full multi-disciplinary team to ensure varied and comprehensive interventions are delivered in-line with the stepped care model;o have an excellent working knowledge of the Mental Hea
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