Lead Nursery Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 07/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced Lead Nursery Nurse to join the Brockington Parent and Baby Unit in Stafford. The successful candidate will support mothers with severe mental health difficulties and ensure the safety and development of their infants. Key responsibilities include leading a team of nursery nurses, collaborating with multidisciplinary colleagues, and developing parent-infant relationship support programmes. The role involves maintaining a therapeutic environment and contributing to care planning.
Key responsibilities
- Lead, supervise, and support a team of nursery nurses and support staff.
- Deliver high-quality care to infants, ensuring their safety, emotional wellbeing, and developmental needs are met.
- Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues, including nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists, and occupational therapists.
- Provide guidance and modelling to parents, supporting positive bonding and parenting skills.
- Contribute to care planning and safeguarding processes.
- Maintain a therapeutic, nurturing, and safe environment on the unit.
Essential criteria
- NNEB or equivalent qualification i.e. relevant NVQ level 3
- Educated to Degree level in, leadership or management, or equivalent demonstrable knowledge and experience
- Significant experience of working as a qualified nursery nurse within pre-school provision.
- Previous experience of accurately inputting data into electronic system
- Experience of maintaining confidential records
- Experience of managing a Team
- Experience of delivering clinical supervision
- Experience of working in a multi disciplinary Team
- Knowledge of Child Protection procedures
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of effective team working
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of confidentiality
- High level communication skills (written and verbal)
- Excellent organisational skills and time management skills
- Able to prioritise and meet deadlines
- Ability to Problem solve
- Good standard of keyboard skills
- Good observation skills
- Ability to relate well to others - children, parents, carers and other professionals
Desirable criteria
- Advanced Nursery Nurse qualification
- Counselling qualification
- Previous NHS Experience
- Motivated and committed to work in mental health
- Undertaken development assessments
- Confidence to deliver parenting groups and discussions
- Working with members of multi-disciplinary agencies within and outside of the organisation
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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Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Nursery Nurse
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of mothers and their infants?
We're looking for an experienced and compassionateLead Nursery Nurse to join our dedicated team on Brockington Parent and baby Unit in Stafford.
This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in supporting mothers experiencing severe mental health difficulties, while ensuring the safety, wellbeing, and healthy development of their infants during admission.
You will lead the team of Inpatient Nursery Nurses, holding a professional leadership role jointly with their Team Managers who retain oversight of management, supervision and an overview of job planning and service development.
You will liaise with other members of the clinical team with regard to the spectrum of care for babies. You will also participate in monthly service performance, delivery and business meetings, multi- professional team meetings, handover meetings and other opportunities for feedback and discussion, as required.
You will alongside the Team Psychologist to develop and implement programmes of parent-infant relationship support for the mothers and families within the service. You will alsooversee the organisation and planning of structures play and stay groups for services users and
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