Bank Registered Mental Health/Learning Disability Nurse

NHS; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Tees Valley seeks Bank Registered Mental Health/Learning Disability Nurses. This role involves supporting mental health and learning disability care, engaging in a multi-disciplinary team, and requires NMC registration. Candidates must have experience in therapeutic settings. The position is flexible, allowing nurses to pick up shifts as needed, providing an opportunity to make a difference in patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council.
• Evidence of experience with mental ill health or learning disabilities.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Involvement in discharge planning for patients.
• Engaging in a multi-disciplinary team approach.
• Providing support and training for junior staff.

Skills

Compassion

Responsibility

Evidence based knowledge

Understanding of relevant legislation

Education

Current professional registration with NMC RNMH or RNLD

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Tools

Clinical Risk Assessment

Clinical Governance

Job description

Go back Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Bank Registered Mental Health/Learning Disability Nurse

The closing date is 31 January 2026

Calling Registered Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurses. Are you passionate about mental health and learning disability care and ready for a new challenge? We are working differently and innovatively to optimise holistic and patient centred care. If you have a particular interest in mental health and want to develop your mental health skills then this role provides an exciting opportunity for you. TEWV is developing a forward thinking nursing vision and robust defined career pathways. As an RMN you may be responsible for the day to day running of the ward.

This post is only open to those candidates who already have their NMC registration in place and have successfully completed the preceptorship programme.

You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under any visa, as it is a Bank/zero hours contract and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.

Main duties of the job

As a Staff Nurse on our inpatient units, you will be encouraged to become involved in the large multi-disciplinary team approach striving towards excellent patient care. You will be involved in formulation to discharge planning for patients on the ward as part of our dynamic team.

Each inpatient ward is fully equipped with activity and therapeutic spaces to enable patients to recover in a timely way so that they can be safely discharged back into their community with identified support packages.

About us

The Trust is a strongly value based, person-centred organisation which has taken a strategic approach to continued service improvement, the modernisation of clinical roles and the introduction of care pathways embedded within a functioning system of governance.

The most important way we will get there is by living our values all of the time. These are:

• Compassion - kind, supporting, recognising and celebrating
• Responsibility - honest, learning, ambitious

As a bank Nurse you will be able to pick up shifts as and when and be made to feel a welcome member of our team.

Job responsibilities

We will support you by offering regular supervision, training opportunities and encourage your development within the unit.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council RNMH or RNLD (RNSC - CAMHS only ) - RGN (If appropriate - Advert must indicate if the role is open to RGN nurses to apply)
• To be recognised practice assessor / mentor or work towards in an agreed timescale
• Trained Clinical Supervisor (within 6 month probationary period)
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Experience

• Working with people with mental ill health / learning disabilities
• Working in a person centred therapeutic organisation
• Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Working in partnership with other agencies

Knowledge

• Evidence based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
• Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act)
• Understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
• Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
• Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
• Confident working knowledge of clinical medicines management, including administration of injections

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer and operates a no smoking policy.