Staff Nurse - Secure Inpatients Service

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; Presencial; GBP 32.000 - 39.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

NHS Pension Scheme

Extensive training & development

Flexible working options

Employee Assistance Programme

Health & Wellbeing support

Descripción de la vacante

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Registered Nurse to join the Ridgeway Secure Inpatient Services. The role involves delivering comprehensive psychiatric care, risk assessment, and collaborative treatment planning within a secure inpatient setting.

We offer extensive training, flexible working options, and an NHS Pension. Applicants should have current NMC registration (RNMH/RNLD) and be prepared for shift work, including nights, across a multidisciplinary team.

Formación

• Professional registration with NMC as RNMH or RNLD is required.
• Evidence of CPD and continuing professional development.
• Experience in mental health or learning disability settings preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain patients' dignity, privacy and safety at all times.
• Safely administer and store medicines according to policy.
• Collaborate within MDT and with partners to plan and deliver care.
• Provide evidenced-based care and participate in risk assessment.

Conocimientos

Communication

Teamwork

Clinical skills

Educación

NMC Registration RNMH/RNLD

Practice assessor/mentorship (training plan)

Descripción del empleo

Go back Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Staff Nurse - Secure Inpatients Service

The closing date is 18 November 2026

Join Ridgeway Secure Inpatient Services as a Registered Nurse.

Ridgeway Secure Inpatient Services is seeking diverse, dynamic, and enthusiastic Registered Nurses to join our dedicated team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting the recovery, rehabilitation, and empowerment of our service users.

At Ridgeway, we provide specialist care for adults with mental health disorders, learning disabilities, or autism who present behaviours that may pose risks to themselves or others. Our service delivers individualised and comprehensive care packages within both Medium and Low Secure inpatient settings, with strong links to High Secure services and the wider justice system.

This role may be eligible for sponsorship under the UK Visas & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker route. However, sponsorship can only be provided where applicants meet the specific requirements, therefore, we recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. Visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

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 evidenced 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

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.

Job responsibilities

Whether you're an experiencedRegistered Nurseor a Newly Registered Nurse, this is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a service that puts patient care first.You will have the time and support to make a real difference every day.

Student Nurse's that are due to register in the next 3 months are very welcome to apply. Full training and Preceptorship programme will be provided to help you build confidence and develop your career in this specialist area.

At Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV), you can expect exceptional training, development, and career progression opportunities supported through our strong partnerships with local universities.

Our commitment to developing our workforce is strengthened by the Trusts Talent Management and Workforce Development Team, who support colleagues in planning their future career pathways. Whether you are aspiring to leadership and management roles or looking to advance within clinical practice, TEWV provides access to structured development programmes designed to help you excel.

Our service ethos is centred around collaborative, personcentred care. We work closely with service users and carers throughout assessment, treatment, intervention planning and rehabilitation. This ensures a holistic, recoveryfocused approach, enabling us to tailor care that truly meets individual needs.

Benefits of Working for TEWV

As a valued member of our team, you will have access to a wide range of staff benefits, including:

NHS Pension SchemeExtensive training & development opportunitiesFlexible working optionsEmployee Assistance ProgrammeHealth & Wellbeing supportCar lease schemeFree onsite gym accessFree parkingRN & HCA Council membershipThink On coaching opportunitiesQuality Improvement (QI) trainingand many more

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

Interviews will take place at Roseberry Park Hospital and will be face to face.

Confirmed ward after successful interview. Part time hours of a minimum 22.5hrs per week may be considered for the right candidate.

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 or work towards in an agreed timescale
• 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.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

£32,073 to £39,043 a year(pro rata), per annum