Specialist Mental Health Nurse – Enhanced Care Unit
NHS AfC: Band 6
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
Exciting Opportunities to Join Our Forward-Thinking Multidisciplinary Team – Women’s Mental Health Enhanced Care Unit (ECU)
The Band 6 Specialist Nurse provides expert clinical and operational leadership within the Women’s Mental Health Enhanced Care Unit, delivering safe, effective, person-centred, and recovery-focused care.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will lead on the assessment, planning, and delivery of care for women with complex mental health needs. You will support risk management, safeguarding, physical healthcare, and evidence-based interventions, ensuring care remains trauma-informed and least restrictive.
As a clinical leader and role model, you will promote excellence in nursing practice, provide supervision and support to staff, and contribute to service improvement, governance, and workforce development.
This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative service and make a meaningful difference to the recovery and wellbeing of women receiving specialist mental health care.
Main duties of the job
As a specialist practitioner, the post holder will champion innovation, quality improvement, and best practice, ensuring the Enhanced Care Unit delivers high-quality therapeutic care alongside effective medical treatment, supporting positive outcomes and recovery for women accessing the service and overall support of the women’s pathway.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide specialist clinical leadership and expert mental health nursing practice.
- Lead the delivery of a therapeutic and medically informed model of care.
- Maintain oversight of operational service delivery, patient flow, staffing, and resource management.
- Support the assessment and management of complex clinical presentations and risk.
- Promote trauma-informed, recovery-focused, and least restrictive approaches.
- Provide professional leadership, supervision, and development for nursing and support staff.
- Work in partnership with patients, carers, families, and the multidisciplinary team.
- Lead quality improvement, audit, governance, and service development initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with professional, organisational, and regulatory standards.
- Foster a positive ward culture that promotes safety, wellbeing, therapeutic engagement, and outstanding patient experience.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
- Post registration/graduate diploma or equivalent experience in related work area, to demonstrate advanced level of practice.
- Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers, and their application to clinical and service area, e.g., Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
- Leadership training/qualification/experience
- Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility.
Experience
- Evidence of development of specialist practice nursing skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
- Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
- Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held.
- Development of specialist/advanced level of practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
- Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice.
- Working within a PBS framework.
Skills and Competencies
- Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring.
- Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change.
- Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures to effectively lead and manage others
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trusts geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post.Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you’ve shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aide career development.
To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria)
This change supports exiting NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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