Duty Senior Nurse

NHS; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The Campbell Centre is seeking a Charge Nurse / Duty Senior Nurse to lead the nursing team and ensure high-quality patient care. This role involves clinical and managerial leadership, supporting staff development, and collaborating with external agencies to facilitate patient assessments. The position offers opportunities for career advancement within the NHS.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Support for staff health and wellbeing

Qualifications

• Maintains current registration with the NMC.
• Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding.
• Further specialist knowledge/post registration experience in specific service area.

Responsibilities

• Lead the nursing team and ensure high quality of patient care.
• Provide education and supervision to junior staff members.
• Liaise with internal and external agencies.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Expertise

Communication

Education

Professional Qualification in Mental Health/Learning Disabilities/General

Job description

Job summary

The Campbell Centre are looking to recruit into the Charge Nurse / Duty Senior Nurse role.

The postholder will be responsible for leading the nursing team and ensuring a high quality of patient care and will work with the staff to ensure that the process of assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation of care is of an excellent standard.

The post holder will demonstrate active clinical and managerial leadership skills within the team, providing education and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Duty Senior Nurse will be tooffer leadership, support, advice and expertise to the clinical teams, leading on clinical and managerial issues when the staff teams themselves are unable to do so, reporting all relevant information to the Senior Management, leading on admission processes, ensuring effective patient care and patient flow.

The Duty Senior Nurse will also work collaboratively with the police officers to facilitate access to the HBPoS and organise Mental Health Assessment with Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) for individuals who have been detained.

CNWL are committed to progressing and supporting their staff with career development and training, and ensuring staff health and wellbeing and job satisfaction, as part of the role you will have the opportunity to attend the band 6 development programme.

About us

We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.

We are always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we are hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working in our healthcare settings.

Details Date posted

22 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per Annum (pro rata if P/T)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

333-D-MK-MH-1253

Job locations

Campbell Centre

Hospitals Campus Eaglestone Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes

MK6 5NG

Job description Job responsibilities

The postholder will be responsible for leading the nursing team and ensuring a high quality of patient care. The Charge Nurse will work with the staff to ensure that the process of assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation of care is of an excellent standard.

The postholder will work to support the Ward Manager by active involvement in service development.

The post holder will demonstrate active clinical and managerial leadership skills within the team, providing education and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals

The post holder will undertake the role Duty Senior Nurse and have responsibility for liaising with internal and external agencies.

The main role of the DSN is to offer leadership, support, advice and expertise to the clinical teams, leading on clinical and managerial issues when the staff teams themselves are unable to do so, reporting all relevant information to the Senior Management, leading on admission processes, ensuring effective patients care and patient flow. The DSN will also work collaboratively with the police officers to facilitate access to the HBPoS and organise Mental Health Assessment with Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) for individuals who have been detained.

Job description Job responsibilities

The postholder will be responsible for leading the nursing team and ensuring a high quality of patient care. The Charge Nurse will work with the staff to ensure that the process of assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation of care is of an excellent standard.

The postholder will work to support the Ward Manager by active involvement in service development.

The post holder will demonstrate active clinical and managerial leadership skills within the team, providing education and supervision to junior staff members and other professionals

The post holder will undertake the role Duty Senior Nurse and have responsibility for liaising with internal and external agencies.

The main role of the DSN is to offer leadership, support, advice and expertise to the clinical teams, leading on clinical and managerial issues when the staff teams themselves are unable to do so, reporting all relevant information to the Senior Management, leading on admission processes, ensuring effective patients care and patient flow. The DSN will also work collaboratively with the police officers to facilitate access to the HBPoS and organise Mental Health Assessment with Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP) for individuals who have been detained.

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Professional Qualification (Mental Health/Learning Disabilities/General) to degree level or equivalent. Maintains current registration with the NMC.
• Further specialist knowledge/post registration experience in specific service area or other formal training

Desirable

• Demonstrate continued professional development to maintain professional registration.

Experience Essential

• Can demonstrate post registration experience.
• Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding.

Desirable

• Specialist and area specific experience.

Knowledge Essential

• Knowledge and understanding of current legislation and understanding of clinical risk assessments
• Understands & promotes equality, diversity and human rights in accordance with legislation, policy and procedures relating to recruitment (KSF 6.2)*
• Understanding of confidentiality in the workplace

Person Specification Qualifications Essential

• Professional Qualification (Mental Health/Learning Disabilities/General) to degree level or equivalent. Maintains current registration with the NMC.
• Further specialist knowledge/post registration experience in specific service area or other formal training

Desirable

• Demonstrate continued professional development to maintain professional registration.

Experience Essential

• Can demonstrate post registration experience.
• Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding.

Desirable

• Specialist and area specific experience.

Knowledge Essential

• Knowledge and understanding of current legislation and understanding of clinical risk assessments
• Understands & promotes equality, diversity and human rights in accordance with legislation, policy and procedures relating to recruitment (KSF 6.2)*
• Understanding of confidentiality in the workplace

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information 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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Campbell Centre

Hospitals Campus Eaglestone Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes

MK6 5NG

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Campbell Centre

Hospitals Campus Eaglestone Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes

MK6 5NG

Employer's website

https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)