Job summary
An exciting opportunity has become available for a Clinical Lead Nurse to support, Lustrum Vale Mental Health Rehabilitation Unit. Lustrum Vale is a 20 bedded unit which offers specialist recovery based interventions to support the transition of patients into the community or prevent patients from being admitted to a Mental Health Acute Hospital setting.
Candidates must have 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework at the time of applying.
Main duties of the job
If successful, you will join a skilled multi-disciplinary team and will work closely with the clinical leadership team to ensure that excellent services are delivered to our patients and staff are developed to reach their potential. You will also be required to lead by example and demonstrate compassionate care and excellent leadership skills. You will provide supervision to staff and work closely with patients, their families and carers to ensure interventions delivered by the team are individualized, patient centred and recovery focused.
We are seeking a confident individual who is keen to contribute to the delivery of high quality nursing care and service development. You should have a strong interest and substantial experience of working with complex patients who may present with behaviours that challenge. You should have a high level of resilience and possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as the ability to demonstrate a warm, patient centred approach to care.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate effective leadership skills and engage in multi-disciplinary team working.
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.
Details
Date posted
30 January 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
346-TSA-005-26-A
Job locations
Lustrum Vale
163 Durham Road
Stockton on Tees
TS19 0EA
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information about the post please contact Kelly Travers, Ward Manager on 01642 358968 /
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
1. 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework)
2. Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
3. Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
4. Supervising or assessing students on practice placement
5. Working in a multi-disciplinary team
6. Quality improvement activities
Knowledge/Skills/Experience
Essential
7. Provide leadership and monitor, coordinate and prioritise the activities of a team
8. Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
9. Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake key worker responsibilities
10. Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
11. Write reports
12. Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
13. Use approved techniques in physical interventions
14. Demonstrate recovery focussed practice
Desirable
15. Experience of working within a range of services, including inpatient and community settings
16. Experience of undertaking or participating in research
17. Specialist knowledge of working within a multidisciplinary/multi-agency community team setting
18. Principles of change management.
19. Principles of project management
Qualifications
Essential
20. Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council. RMNH/RNLD
21. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
22. Recognised Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within 6 months
23. Trained in Clinical Supervision and providing clinical supervision OR willingness to work towards within 6 months