Senior Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 31/08/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) to join Shakespeare ward at the Harbour as a Band 6 Clinical Lead. The successful candidate will join an established leadership team, developing their leadership skills in a supportive environment. They will provide excellent role modelling, support junior colleagues, and contribute to quality improvement projects to enhance patient care and staff wellbeing. The role involves nursing people with acute mental health needs, providing supervision, and utilising audit data for improvements.
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification.
- Post graduate qualification or experience.
- Specialist qualification or equivalent level in skills and development.
- Understanding of Health and Safety policies and procedures.
- Knowledge and practice of Mental Health Act 1983.
- Knowledge of common mental health problems and medication used in relation to these.
- Experience of assessing, planning and implementing and reviewing care needs.
- Experience of interacting therapeutically with distress and /or disturbed individuals.
- Education / Qualifications
- Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification.
- Post graduate qualification or experience.
- Specialist qualification or equivalent level in skills and development.
- Understanding of Health and Safety policies and procedures.
- Knowledge and practice of Mental Health Act 1983.
- Knowledge of common mental health problems and medication used in relation to these.
- Experience of assessing, planning and implementing and reviewing care needs.
- Experience of interacting therapeutically with distress and /or disturbed individuals.
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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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen on Shakespeare ward at the Harbour for highly motivated and professional RMN to join the wards as band 6 clinical lead. In coming into this roles, the successful candidates will join an already established leadership team, and will have opportunity to further develop their leadership skills in a supportive environment.
The successful candidate will bring excellent role modelling skills, a passion for supporting and developing junior colleagues, including student nurses and preceptors, and they should have a keen interest in quality improvement projects that can lead to improvements in patient care and staff wellbeing.
You should bring with you experience of nursing people with acute mental health needs, as well as some experience of providing high quality supervision, an awareness of not just how to complete an audit but what to do with the data an audit provides us with, and be keen to develop your own skills once in post.
Main duties of the job
Inpatient wards and units are designed to meet the acute holistic needs of service users and patients and carers, in a recovery focussed environment. This working environment is conducive to staff development and wellbeing. The post holder will support staff members in the assessment, planning and provision of care in line with national and local nursing and health and safety poli
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