Bank 6 clinical Lead Nurse

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider in Coventry is seeking a dedicated Bank Clinical Lead Nurse to join their inpatient mental health team. The role involves ensuring high-quality care, managing junior staff, and leading on quality improvement initiatives. Candidates should possess a nursing qualification and experience in clinical leadership. The position offers generous annual leave, learning opportunities, and wellbeing support, making it ideal for committed healthcare professionals.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Discounts with retailers

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration.
• Experience in a clinical leadership role.
• Ability to supervise and develop junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and coordinate holistic assessments of mental and physical needs.
• Act as Nurse in Charge and manage shifts.
• Lead and maintain a learning environment via mentorship.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Assessment formulation

Mentorship

Risk management

Evidence-based practice

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly dedicated Bank 6 Clinical Lead Nurse to join Swanswell Ward, one of our inpatient mental health teams based at The Caludon Centre, Coventry. The post holder will be part of the Nursing team and work duty shifts including weekends and nights, ensuring a high level of quality care is maintained. The role supports the Ward Manager in all aspects of delivering safe care to patients, with an emphasis on ensuring quality and safety is maintained within the ward at all times. The post holder will work within a multi‑disciplinary age‑independent, MH inpatient service, ensure all organisational systems and processes are adhered to, manage conflicting priorities and change in complex situations, act as a resource of clinical knowledge and competence, support audit, guidelines and quality improvement approaches, undertake trusted assessments, provide evidence‑based interventions and clinical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and coordinate holistic assessment of mental and physical needs.
• Act as Nurse in Charge (NIC) and manage shifts.
• Supervise and develop junior staff members, ensuring competency sign‑off for junior staff, students and trainees.
• Ensure a robust process for care plan formulation, review, evaluation of treatment and safety plans, and report back to the multi‑professional team.
• Contribute to the maintenance and development of the social and physical therapeutic environment.
• Lead all areas of risk management within the ward, ensuring risk—including patient risk, positive risk taking and environmental risk assessment—is embedded and trust processes are adhered to and recorded.
• Maintain high standards of clinical care and deliver service based on evidence, clinical and professional judgement.
• Identify needs to facilitate safe discharge.
• Lead and coordinate the adherence to and reporting of safety & quality issues and report any concerns immediately.
• Have a detailed working knowledge of key partnership services and organisations (e.g., voluntary sector, social services, housing), including eligibility criteria and access procedures.
• Lead and maintain a learning environment via mentorship, supervision and guidance for junior staff and students.
• Lead on Quality Improvement and liaise with the Quality Improvement team to support practice development and coordinate staff training in improvement approaches.
• Support staff training and development in all areas appropriate to inpatient care.
• Lead on improving patient experience and co‑production on the ward.
• Provide senior leadership across the acute system as deemed necessary.

Additional Requirements

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of safe recruitment practice, all newly appointed staff are required to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service. The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications regardless of age, gender, race, disability or sexual orientation. Guidance and criteria on the filtering of criminal cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website.

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About the Trust

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT) provides a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services to communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond. We serve a population of over one million people, offering services to children, young adults, adults and older adults across many sites, including Solihull. We put people at our heart; this ethos is the centre of everything we do, as we care for our staff and colleagues as much as we care for others, offering a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave entitlement which increases with time with us
• Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership, and more
• Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• Wellbeing support, including an in‑house counselling service and external helpline
• Staff networks and support groups