Lead Nurse

Getat Elysium Healthcare; Crookham; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £63,408

33 days annual leave

Career development

Blue Light Card

Pension

Free meals

Onsite parking

Wellbeing support

Job summary

Elysium Healthcare is seeking a Lead Nurse at Thornford Park to lead and develop a high-performing nursing team within a 141-bed independent hospital. You will provide strong clinical leadership across the hospital, ensuring safe, person-centred care for service users in medium and low secure mental health services, including PICU pathways.

The role requires RNM/RMN registration with substantial post-qualification experience, leadership and management skills, and a commitment to

Qualifications

• RNM/RMN qualification and experience in a senior nursing role.
• Postgraduate healthcare degree or equivalent.
• Management qualification (DMS or equivalent) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership to the hospital-wide nursing team.
• Promote wellbeing and interests of service users, staff and visitors.
• Lead and manage nursing services within budget and policy frameworks.
• Supervise senior nurses and deputise for the Unit Manager.
• Oversee preadmission assessment and liaison with contracts.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical leadership

Staff mentoring

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Communication

Nursing management

Education

Postgraduate healthcare degree

Management qualification (DMS)

Registered Nurse RMN/RMN

Job description

Lead Nurse

Date: 2026-08-13T10:42:02

Location: Crookham, Northumberland, GB, TD12 4

Application Deadline: 2026-09-15T03:37:23.547

Job Description

Are you a Senior Nurse looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you to develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? If so, join the team at Thornford Park as a Lead Nurse and change lives for the better.

As a senior member of the nursing team, you will have experience within a similar setting from the NHS and/or Private Care. You will lead and guide a team of nurses to provide exceptional care.

Your career within Elysium will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society. It's a career that you can take pride in and enjoy. It's what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

What you will be doing

As a qualified RMN/RNLD you will provide a high profile, visible clinical leadership to the hospital-wide nursing team. You will promote and safeguard the well-being and interests of all service users, employees, and visitors. You will ensure that standards of patient care are maintained at all times within the parameters of operational policies and governing legislation.

No two days are the same, with plenty to keep you engaged and motivated, but also a good amount of routine. There are also career development opportunities, with a huge range of courses that will help you grow and succeed. If you have the aspiration, capability, and dedication, we can give you the support and opportunities to help you achieve your career goals.

Other responsibilities:

• To actively promote multidisciplinary working.
• Participate in the Senior Nurse on call arrangement
• Provide the Director of Nurses with relevant, accurate, and timely information required for effective decision making
• Leadership of Nursing Services ensuring highest possible professional standards
• Management of resources within budget allocation
• Supervision of senior nurses
• Direct involvement in the preadmission assessment process
• Direct customer and contract liaison in conjunction with the unit manager
• Deputising for the Unit Manager
• To comply with individual responsibilities of relevant legislation

Things that you will have

• RMN or RNMH
• Post Graduate qualification at degree level relevant to healthcare
• Management qualification (DMS or equivalent preferred)
• Registered Nurse RMN/RMN
• 7 years post qualification experience
• Budgetary and financial management
• Project management
• 2 years operational Management at senior level

Where you will be working

Location: Thornford Park, Crookham Hill, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG19 8ET.

You will be working at Thornford Park, a 141 bedded independent hospital which supports service users that require medium and low secure Forensic Mental Health Services. In addition to these services, there is also a PICU Mental Health Service.

The service provides a seamless internal care pathway supporting and empowering people in their recovery and rehabilitation. Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will provide personalised assessment and treatment programmes for males with mental illness/complex care needs as well as those with personality disorder, and females and males in a PICU service.

What You'll Get

At Elysium Healthcare, we believe in taking care of the people who care for others. You'll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and future:

• Annual base salary of £63,408
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) - plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave, in our annual selection window.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals
• Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts
• Life Assurance, for added peace of mind
• Stream - instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
• 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be
• Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time
• Pension contribution, to help secure your future
• Free meals and onsite free parking

About your next employer

Elysium Healthcare has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it's each person's individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.