Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Staff Nurse to join the multidisciplinary team at Sherwood Ward in Melbury Lodge, Winchester. The role involves providing care and treatment to service users experiencing acute mental health crises. The successful applicant will be an experienced RMN committed to leading and delivering high-quality patient care and supporting service users and their families with their recovery.
Essential criteria
- Qualified registered nurse
- Newly qualified nurses are welcomed
Desirable criteria
- Computer skills
- Able to attend and participate in all statutory training events, including manual handling and management of aggression
- Commitment to lifelong learning
- Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding
- Ability to recognise and respond to behaviour that challenges
- Full and detailed knowledge of all legislation relating to mental health care
- Good facilitation skills
- Evidence of effective people skills
- Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks
- Ability to supervise students and staff
- Practice accessor
- Qualified registered nurse
- Newly qualified nurses are welcomed
- Computer skills
- Able to attend and participate in all statutory training events, including manual handling and management of aggression
- Commitment to lifelong learning
- Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding
- Ability to recognise and respond to behaviour that challenges
- Full and detailed knowledge of all legislation relating to mental health care
- Good facilitation skills
- Evidence of effective people skills
- Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks
- Ability to supervise students and staff
- Practice accessor
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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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for 2 enthusiastic and motivated Staff Nurse to join our lively and busy multidisciplinary team at Sherwood Ward in Melbury Lodge. Melbury Lodge has two adult acute wards: Rosemary Ward offering care for up to 13 female patients and Sherwood Ward offering care for up to 13 male patients. It also houses Snowdrop Ward (Older Person Mental Health Ward) and Clover Ward (Mother and Baby Ward).
Melbury Lodge is based in Winchester and provides cares for the needs of service users across Hampshire.
We provide care and treatment to service users who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis and require a period of hospital care to support their recovery.
We are looking to appoint an experienced RMN who is committed to leading and delivering high quality patient care. The successful applicant will be committed to supporting service users and their families with their recovery and will be based on Sherwood ward.
Main duties of the job
To lead the clinical management of a designated group of service users in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care
To ensure that junior staff and students are actively engaged in patient activity
To observe, report and record changes in the service user physica
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