Specialist Mental Health Nurse - Enhanced Care Unit

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., 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.,

• 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.
  
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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.