Clinical Lead Nurse

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health organization is seeking a Clinical Lead Nurse to support the Lustrum Vale Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit. This role involves supervising staff, providing patient-centered care, and contributing to service development for complex cases. Applicants should possess strong leadership and communication skills, and have a minimum of 18 months experience post-qualification. The trust offers a supportive environment focusing on patient recovery and team collaboration.

Benefits

Visa sponsorship available

Dedicated onboarding process

No-smoking policy at workplace

Qualifications

• 18 months post-qualifying experience with signoff on a preceptorship or competency framework.

Responsibilities

• Provide supervision to staff and individualised patient care.
• Engage in multi-disciplinary team working.
• Contribute to high-quality nursing care and service development.

Skills

Leadership skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Patient-centered care

Resilience

Job description

Clinical Lead Nurse – Lustrum Vale Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit

An exciting opportunity has become available for a Clinical Lead Nurse to support Lustrum Vale Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit. Lustrum Vale is a 20-bed unit which offers specialist recovery-based interventions to support the transition of patients into the community or prevent patients from being admitted to a Mental Health Acute Hospital setting. If successful, you will join a skilled multi‑disciplinary team and will work closely with the clinical leadership team to ensure that excellent services are delivered to our patients and staff are developed to reach their potential. You will also be required to lead by example and demonstrate compassionate care and excellent leadership skills. You will provide supervision to staff and work closely with patients, their families and carers to ensure interventions delivered by the team are individualised, patient-centred and recovery focused.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a confident individual who is keen to contribute to the delivery of high quality nursing care and service development. You should have a strong interest and substantial experience of working with complex patients who may present with behaviours that challenge. You should have a high level of resilience and possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as the ability to demonstrate a warm, patient-centred approach to care. Applicants must be able to demonstrate effective leadership skills and engage in multi-disciplinary team working.

Qualifications

Candidates must have 18 months post-qualifying experience including sign off of an appropriate preceptorship or competency framework at the time of applying.

Working for our Organisation

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby. From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care, our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for. We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health. We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it. We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Additional Information

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the protection of staff, service users and visitors from second‑hand smoke and currently operates a no‑smoking policy which ensures all buildings and grounds are smoke free.

We are able to offer sponsorship for a Health and Care Worker or Skilled Worker visa, subject to candidate and position eligibility. Please review the job eligibility guidance for skilled workers: Skilled Worker visa: Your job – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and for the Health and Care Worker visa – Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Here at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys Foundation NHS Trust, we want you to have a positive experience when you start your new role with us. To ensure you have a great welcome, for all new starters joining the Trust, we offer two start dates per month on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of that month.