Staff Nurse - Secure Inpatients Service

NHS; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is looking for a Staff Nurse for the Secure Inpatients Service. The role involves providing high-quality care for adults with mental health disorders and learning disabilities. Candidates should have current registration with the Nursing & Midwifery Council and experience working in therapeutic settings. Shift work is required, including nights. Excellent training and development opportunities are offered.

Benefits

Access to Employee Assistance & Health & Wellbeing programmes

Car lease scheme

Free onsite gymnasium access

Free Parking

Coaching opportunities

QI Training

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with experience in mental health or learning disabilities.
• Working collaboratively with service users and their families.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.

Responsibilities

• Maintain patients dignity, privacy and safety.
• Assess risk and deliver evidence based care.
• Work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Teamwork ethos

Clinical Risk Assessment

Evidence based care delivery

Education

Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council RNMH or RNLD

To be a recognised practice assessor

Trained Clinical Supervisor (within 6 months)

Job description

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Staff Nurse - Secure Inpatients Service

The closing date is 30 October 2025

Ridgeway Secure inpatient Services are looking to recruit diverse, dynamic and enthusiastic registered nurses to support the recovery and rehabilitation of our service users.

Ridgeway provides a specialist service for adults with a mental health disorder, learning disability or autism who exhibit behaviours of concern to others and to themselves. The service provides individualised, comprehensive packages of care within Medium and Low Secure inpatient settings and has links to High Secure services and prisons.

Ridgeway facility has been carefully designed and constructed to meet specific needs of the service. Buildings are built to medium / low secure standards, maintain a spacious environment, ensuite bedrooms, outdoor, leisure and therapeutic space.

The post holder may be required to work on any of the 3 Pathway's outside their offered post. The 3 pathways are:

• Group 1 – Male
• Group 2 – Male Autism/Rehab
• Group 3 – Female

All 3 pathways have both low and medium secure wards, covering mental health and learning disability or autism.

*There are no guarantees of a specific ward if successful at interview. Ward TBC after interview.

Main duties of the job

Our vision is to provide a centre of excellence within secure inpatient care that is busy, rewarding, where you will get to practice a full range of psychiatric skills & interventions from assessment, treatment, and recovery.

You will have opportunities to develop professionally and to expand your professional portfolio through PDP and extensive training opportunities. The team will consist of a range of multi‑disciplinary professions and will provide high quality care and treatment to patients with Mental Health and or a Learning Disability. Working with internal and external partners including working collaboratively and closely with prison colleagues, probation and existing services within Ridgeway Hospital.

You will need excellent communication skills and a teamwork ethos.

The position requires shift work, including occasional nights, on a rotational basis.

• Maintaining patients dignity, privacy and safety at all times. Assessing risk
• Adhering to mental capacity and mental health act.
• Recognising potential signs of harm and ensuring patients are safeguarded.
• Maintaining high professional standards.
• Delivering and planning evidence based care in collaboration with the patient, families and wider MDT.
• Assessing patient need and delivering appropriate and timely interventions.
• Safe administration and storage of medicines.

About us

Working for TEWV NHS Trust you can expect fantastic training & development opportunities with the strong links we have developed at our local universities.

Future planning is supported by the Trust's Talent Management and Workforce Development Team, so we can continue to build upon our commitment of being well led and to deliver excellent care to our communities in either leadership & management or clinical practice modules.

The ethos of the service is to work collaboratively with service users and carers in the completion of assessments, treatment, intervention planning and rehabilitation to enable a person‑centred recovery‑focused approach to care, meeting their needs in a holistic manner.

The Trust offers a variety of staff benefits and rewards packages, including:

• Access to Employee Assistance & Health & Wellbeing programmes
• Car lease scheme
• Free onsite gymnasium access
• Free Parking
• Think On Coaching opportunities
• QI Training
• Plus Many more…

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person Specification

Qualification

• Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council RNMH or RNLD
• 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.