Overview
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 15 February 2026
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.
Applicants 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.
Job responsibilities
For further information about the post please contact Kelly Travers, Ward Manager on 01642 358968 / Kellytravers@nhs.net.
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
* 18 months post qualifying experience including sign off of appropriate preceptorship or competency framework)
* Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
* Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
* Supervising or assessing students on practice placement
* Working in a multi-disciplinary team
* Quality improvement activities
Knowledge/Skills/Experience
* Provide leadership and monitor, coordinate and prioritise the activities of a team
* Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers/families and all members of the multidisciplinary team
* Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and undertake key worker responsibilities
* Provide effective clinical supervision, teaching, training and assessing in clinical practice
* Write reports
* Use multimedia materials for presentations in professional settings
* Use approved techniques in physical interventions
* Demonstrate recovery focussed practice
* Experience of working within a range of services, including inpatient and community settings
* Experience of undertaking or participating in research
* Specialist knowledge of working within a multidisciplinary/multi-agency community team setting
* Principles of change management.
* Principles of project management
Qualifications
* Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council. RMNH/RNLD
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
* Recognised Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within 6 months
* Trained in Clinical Supervision and providing clinical supervision OR willingness to work towards within 6 months
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.
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