About this role
Job summary
Are you a passionate and motivated nurse leader? We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as aLead Nurse within our forensic, low secure, and rehabilitation service at Kingsway Hospital, Derby.
Could you help to strengthen our leadership team, inspire colleagues, and help shape the future of our service?
You'll be part of a strong and supportive team based on a 20-bed unit across two wards - Curzon and Scarsdale, providing 24-hour inpatient nursing support at Kedleston.
Our service supports adults with severe and enduring mental illness, often with a forensic or risk history, who need longer-term assessment, treatment, and stabilisation before transitioning back into the community.
In this role, you'll:
Provide visible clinical leadership and support. Champion high-quality, evidence-based care. Supervise and guide colleagues across the wider multi-disciplinary team. Contribute to a service built on hope, compassion, and recovery-focused practice. We're proud of our commitment to least restrictive practice and our dedication to creating an environment where service users feel valued and empowered to achieve their personal goals.
This is a rewarding and dynamic leadership role where you'll join a team that truly cares and have the chance tomake a real difference.
If you're ready to bring your skills, ideas, and passion for rehabilitation to a team that will value and support you (and has just been rated as 'Good' in all CQC domains!), we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
Work with the team, driving change and offering assurance that our care meets the standards not only expected of us, but that our patients, relatives and carers deserve. Be responsible for establishing operational and clinical service mechanisms that support safe and high-quality care throughout the twenty-four-hour period. Have opportunities to take the lead on new developments and will be responsible for ensuring that local and national standards and targets are met. Be responsible for ensuring that the clinical team operates within established legal and operational protocols and that robust clinical rationales exist for planned and delivered interventions. Work effectively within a multi-disciplinary setting and will ensure that effective co-ordination exists and is maintained, between the various stakeholders involved. Be part of our bleep-holder role on a rota basis, which lends itself to bed management, and support of the Kingsway Campus. Deputise for the Senior Nurses where needed.
This post is full time and will involve working shifts, late and early shifts with occasional weekends, bank holidays and at times possible 9-5 shifts on weekdays.
About us
Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.
CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the Trust."
Benefits include:
Commitment to flexible working where this is possible 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training Generous NHS pension scheme Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits Health service discounts and online benefits Incremental pay progression Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7 Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network Health and wellbeing opportunities Structured learning and development opportunities
Job description Job responsibilities
Please review the Job Description and Person Specification.
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Person Specification
Education/Qualifications Essential
Educated to Diploma Level (i.e. Dip HE Nursing) or Degree Level Evidence of up to date Personal Development Plan Professional Portfolio
Desirable
Experience in mentoring and supervising staff Experience working with families and carers
Experience/Skills Essential
Post-registration clinical expertise that will include core competencies around NMC Nurse Competencies Demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate and lead multi-professional teams Demonstrate knowledge and expertise of CPA/Risk Assessment and Management Skills Demonstrate the ability to lead the clinical team in a service user/ career focused way Demonstrate exposure to and a comprehensive knowledge of Clinical Governance in action (audit, research clinical effectiveness etc) Demonstrate operational management skills, including change management, project management etc Demonstrate knowledge of legal and ethical issues relating to clinical practice, including policy and procedure development Demonstrate an understanding of work-based legislation
Desirable
Experience of working in secure and/or rehabilitation settings
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 Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Kedleston Unit
Kingsway Hospital
Derby
DE22 3LZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website http://www.derbyshirehealthcareft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)