Clinical Lead Nurse

Inclusion; Redditch; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in the UK seeks a Clinical Nurse Lead at HMP Hewell to deliver expert care and lead a dedicated team. The role involves providing clinical knowledge, monitoring practices, and promoting integrated care between prison and community services. Ideal candidates must be Registered Nurses with mental health expertise and strong leadership skills. Join a progressive team committed to recovery-focused approaches and continuous improvement for service users.

Benefits

Commitment to professional development

Inclusive culture

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with evidence of clinical expertise in Mental Health Nursing.
• Experience at Band 6 or equivalent level with the client group.
• Demonstrable experience of initiating and evaluating service developments.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical knowledge to colleagues and service users.
• Responsible for leadership to deliver evidence-based care.
• Monitor and evaluate practice based on contemporary trends.
• Promote integration between prison and community services.

Skills

Clinical expertise in Mental Health Nursing

Leadership

Multi-agency collaboration

Education

Registered Nurse

Evidence of clinical expertise in Mental Health Nursing (level 3 degree equivalent or above)

Job description

Inclusion (Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse) Clinical Nurse Lead - HMP Hewell

Are you seeking a Clinical Nurse Lead position that truly makes a difference? Ready to bring your expertise into a unique and rewarding environment? Join us in prison healthcare and lead meaningful change at HMP Hewell.

Our Integrated Mental Health and Substance Misuse Service at HMP Hewell is looking for a dynamic, experienced, and qualified Mental Health Professional--ideally with experience in a prison or forensic setting--to join our progressive team.

Why HMP Hewell?

We maintain excellent working relationships with a range of partner agencies, including hospitals, community mental health teams, and substance misuse services. This collaborative approach ensures genuinely integrated care and seamless support for our service users, both within the prison and as they transition back into the community. We have introduced a targeted care pathway and a standardised approach to acute mental health and neurodiversity needs, making certain that the right support is delivered at the right time. Our innovative and forward-thinking team is committed to a recovery-focused approach, working collaboratively from initial assessment through to discharge. You will be joining a service recognised for its inclusive culture, professional development opportunities, and commitment to continuous improvement, including recent investment in autism and neurodiversity training for staff.

Main duties of the job

You will provide expert clinical knowledge and interventions, advice, support and supervision in the multi-disciplinary pathway, to colleagues, service users and carers.

The post holder will be responsible for providing leadership to deliver evidence based care and interventions and providing professional nursing leadership within the pathway team.

You will lead the team in expert assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for a specific group of service users, supervising and teaching service users and carers, professionals from the multi-disciplinary teams, qualified and unqualified staff and the general public.

The post holder will work in partnership with service users, carers and other agencies to ensure effectiveness of outcomes anddevelop, with specialists, non-medical prescribing clinics within the team.

About us

Inclusion, created in 2002 is part of the Specialist Services Care Group of Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT). We provide caring and effective services across England, including, West Yorkshire, West Midlands, East Midlands, West Mercia, Thames Valley, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Thurrock, Essex.We support individuals, families and communities who are affected by addiction, crime, mental health or need treatment for their sexual health. We believe that the individuals and families who use our services should receive high quality, committed and inclusive care, realising all the benefits a modern NHS organisation can provide.We work with patients and our staff teams to achieve the best outcomes we can. We invest heavily in training and development, and the wellbeing of our people, both staff and service users is central to who we are. Here at MPFT, we are proud of the comprehensive wellbeing and lifestyle support offer available, in addition to in-house training and coaching support. Our services are robustly governed, evidence-based, inclusive, and designed and provided in conjunction with service users. We are committed to providing the best service we can, and if you share our values, we want you on our team!

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description & Person Spec for all responsibilities, a summary is below:

• To provide appropriate advice to team staff, multi-disciplinary and Management Groups.
• To monitor and evaluate practice based on contemporary and current trends and initiate changes in the light of these findings.
• To ensure that all statutory and professional responsibilities of the NMC Codes of Conduct are met alongside other professional related bodies
• To promote, encourage and develop integration between Prison and Community services.
• Facilitate effective recovery focussed care.
• Encourage and facilitate multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
• To act/train as a supplementary nurse prescriber to the team or work to ensure supplementary prescribing can be undertaken.
• To act as an autonomous practitioner in requesting the input from other professionals and pathways

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Evidence of clinical expertise in Mental Health Nursing (level 3 degree equivalent or above)

Experience

• Experience post qualifying at Band 6 or equivalent level with the client group.
• Demonstrable experience of initiating, implementing and evaluating service developments and improving the quality of clinical care.

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.