Registered Nurse – Mental Health Inpatient: Sponsorship Available

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Newbridges is looking to recruit a Band 5 Nurse, to join an established Multi-Disciplinary Team. Newbridges is an 18 bedded male inpatient unit offering service users intensive, high quality, person-centred interventions and assessment utilising a trauma informed model/approach.

This aids decisions to provide further support in the community or signpost to treatment units for further intervention.

The candidate will be expected to provide supervision to junior staff across the service and have experience of offering evidence-based, value recovery-focused interventions that facilitate recovery.

Main duties of the job

  • Reporting to the Charge Nurse, the post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, co-ordinating with psychiatrist, psychologist, occupational therapists, health care assistants, and allied professionals, to help individuals with specific symptoms of mental illness, and supporting them to overcome challenges.
  • With a passion for positive change, the successful applicant will prepare, develop and maintain individualised patient records, producing care plans and risk assessments, with an aim to maximise care and patients families and other services is a key component of the role, offering education, information and advocacy.
  • Excellent observational skills are required to assess patients, along with the ability to stay calm and think quickly in challenging circumstances. Applicants will also be required to administer medications and facilitate treatment options, monitoring results, recording and escalating any concerns in a timely manner.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Willingness to undertake and complete preceptorship; facilitating the transition for newly qualified nurse booklet and core competency development programme.
  • Appropriate Knowledge and experience of working in a Mental health setting

Desirable

  • Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential

  • Part III or 13 of NMC live register
  • A broad understanding of relevant Policy, legislation and their application to clinical and service area
  • Standard IT skills

Desirable

  • Full understanding of relevant policy, drivers and their application to clinical and service area

Skills and Competencies

Essential

  • Able to demonstrate effective interpersonal/communication skills
  • Evidence of good time management skills
  • Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity

Desirable

  • Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures.

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).

Closing Date: 11 October 2026

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