Bank B5 Registered Nurse

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Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the UK is seeking Bank Registered Mental Health Nurses and Registered Learning Disability Nurses. This role offers flexible hours and responsibilities including direct patient care, mentoring junior staff, and contributing to service development. Ideal candidates will possess the required NMC registration and have relevant experience in mental health. The Trust prides itself on staff morale and commitment to quality care with opportunities for personal development and flexible working.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Relevant experience with mental health needs.
• Understanding of clinical and risk assessment principles.

Responsibilities

• Help manage accountability for service users.
• Act as an advocate for service users.
• Monitor service user progress against objectives.

Skills

Clinical reasoning skills

Engagement with service users

Sound knowledge of mental health

Effective communication

Education

1st Level Registration (NMC) or equivalent degree

Evidence of professional training in clinical practice

Job description

Main area Bank Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) / Bank Registered Learning Disability Nurse (RNLD) Grade Band 5 Contract Bank Hours Flexible working Job ref 274-BankRN26-A

Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site BN Bank Nurses L00900 Town Lincolnshire - Bank Salary per annum pro rata Closing 08/01/2026 23:59

Bank B5 Registered Nurse

Band 5

Job overview

THIS POST IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR SPONSORSHIP

Job Title: Nurse: Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Learning Disability Nurse (RMN / RNLD)

Pay Band: 5

Reports to: Ward Manager / Senior Nurse / Temporary Staffing - LPFT

Accountable to: Ward Manager

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities for direct/indirect patient care

• Accept ongoing accountability for service users.
• Act as an advocate, support service users through their care programme both physically and psychologically.
• Monitor and review service user progress where frequent concentration is required, against planned objectives and use initiative to act on results within own sphere of responsibility.
• Assist service users with personal care as need arises.
• Contribute to case conferences and review.
• Undertake reviews of care programmes with service users, carers and team members.

Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation

• Carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.

Responsibilities for human resources (including training)

• Manage delegated caseload (complex cases) and supervise junior staff as required in the provision of nursing care.
• Act as a mentor in accordance with NMC standards.
• Provide ongoing work‑based staff support.
• Participate in performance review, supervision and undertake mandatory training and personal development as required of the post including competency development.

Responsibilities for information resources

• Record all self‑generated information within the service users’ clinical notes and/or using the Trust’s clinical information system (Maracis).

Responsibilities for research and development

• Participate in audit and research as required

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well‑led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi‑million‑pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Qualifications:

• RMN or RNLD: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.

Experience:

• Relevant experience of working with mental health needs.
• Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Government principles.
• Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information and barriers to effective communication whilst being considerate of client confidentiality.

Skills and Competencies:

• Sound clinical reasoning skills.
• Highly motivated and able to engage with service users and carers to improve outcomes.
• Ability to work independently and collectively.

Person specification

Qualification

• Detailed, clear and well written role application form.

We are leading the way with mental health transformation projects. Multi-million‑pound schemes to transform patient environments and radically redesign community services are currently underway, as part of our commitment to reshaping the future of mental healthcare.

We believe the key to high quality patient care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in the Care Quality Commission rating us as ‘outstanding’ for well led and ‘good’ overall, and 75% of our staff recommending us as a place to work.
We offer options for flexible working and provide development pathways and opportunities. We have a proud partnership with the University of Lincoln and the Lincoln Medical School, which has expanded our academic offerings to nurture talent across the Trust.

We are committed to ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels. We are currently under‑represented particularly at senior leadership level, so we welcome applications from women, people with disabilities, people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, and those from the LGBT communities.

We support and celebrate diversity. We have active staff network groups for Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) staff, Lesbian Gay Bi Trans (LGBT+) staff, staff with Mental and Physical Lived Experience (MAPLE) and our dedicated staff groups for men and women. We are a Silver Standard Employer with ENEI, were in the top 100 organisations in the country within the Stonewall Index (in 2019), and have been a finalist for the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Mental Health Trust of the Year Award two years in a row.

We offer 24‑hour services within our Inpatient, Crisis and SPA teams, if you are successfully appointed to posts in these areas or others that might have specified, you will be required to work unsociable hours and shift patterns.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.