Clinical Practice Lead
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse to join the Mother & Baby Unit Team. The role involves supporting the Clinical Nurse Manager with 24-hour operational responsibility for high-quality nursing care and treatment of service users. You will contribute to service development, support care delivery, and work with service users and staff to ensure effective practices. The post holder will also contribute to the wider unit and may cover other acute wards, including the Duty Senior Nurse role.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (Mental Health)
- Mentorship certification
- Completion of Preceptorship
- Significant experience at band 5 level or above
- Working with people with mental health problems
- Managing challenging and aggressive behaviour
- Working within a multidisciplinary team environment
- Experience of providing individualized and culturally sensitive care
Desirable criteria
- Supporting and supervising students and junior staff
- Knowledge and Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for complex patients
- Minimising clinical risk and reducing restrictive practices
- Able to work systematically and objectively in an environment with patients who can present high risk behaviours
- Able to manage time so that deadlines are met
- Ability to recognize and manage stress, in self and others
- Knowledge of quality improvement practices
- Education/ Qualification/ Training
- Registered Nurse (Mental Health)
- Mentorship certification
- Completion of Preceptorship
- Significant experience at band 5 level or above
- Working with people with mental health problems
- Managing challenging and aggressive behaviour
- Working within a multidisciplinary team environment
- Experience of providing individualized and culturally sensitive care
- Supporting and supervising students and junior staff
- Knowledge and Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for complex patients
- Minimising clinical risk and reducing restrictive practices
- Able to work systematically and objectively in an environment with patients who can present high risk behaviours
- Able to manage time so that deadlines are met
- Ability to recognize and manage stress, in self and others
- Knowledge of quality improvement practices
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity for an experienced RMN to join the Mother & Baby Unit Team. You should have a willingness to work towards developing your understanding of this specialist field and of infant care and development whilst working within a multidisciplinary team.
The East London Mother and Baby Unit is a specialist service that aims to provide mental health care for mothers and support in the care of their infants. The unit provides an integrated approach to care planning and promotes recovery.
We provide care and treatment for women with a pre-existing mental illness who suffer a relapse during pregnancy or after giving birth, such as bi-polar affective disorder, schizophrenia, recurrent depressive disorder, severe anxiety disorder and schizo-affective disorder
Women who develop an acute mental illness such as puerperal psychosis or depression during or afterpregnancy
Women who are at significant risk of becoming unwell in the perinatal period (prophylactic admissions) who have established diagnosis of mental illness and are already known to mental health services - referrals will be considered from 32 weeks gestation.
The aim of the unit is to ensure that all women who have young infants and who require admission can remain with their baby, enabling the special bond between mother and baby to be unbroken at a critical time in the life of a young family.
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