Job summary
Ridgeway Secure inpatient Services are looking to recruit diverse, dynamic and enthusiastic registered nurses to support the recovery and rehabilitation of our service users.
From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care, our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities, carers, and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in, and cared for.
Ridgeway provides a specialist service for adults with a mental health disorder, learning disability or autism who exhibit behaviours of concern to others and to themselves. The service provides individualised, comprehensive packages of care within Medium and Low Secure inpatient settings and has links to High Secure services and prisons.
Ridgeway facility has been carefully designed and constructed to meet specific needs of the service. Buildings are built to medium / low secure standards, maintain a spacious environment, ensuite bedrooms, outdoor, leisure and therapeutic space.
The post holder may be required to work on any of the 3 Pathway's outside their offered post *. The 3 pathways are; Group 1 - Male, Group 2-Male Autism/Rehab or Group 3 - Female. All 3 pathways have both low and medium secure wards, covering mental health and learning disability or autism .
*There are no guarantees of a specific ward if successful at interview. Ward TBC after interview.
Main duties of the job
Our vision is to provide a centre of excellence within secure inpatient care that is busy, rewarding, where you will get to practice a full range of psychiatric skills & interventions from assessment, treatment, and recovery.
You will have opportunities to develop professionally and to expand your professional portfolio through PDP and extensive training opportunities. The team will consist of a range of multi-disciplinary professions and will provide high quality care and treatment to patients with Mental Health and or a Learning Disability. Working with internal and external partners including working collaboratively and closely with prison colleagues, probation and existing services within Ridgeway Hospital.
You will need excellent communication skills and a teamwork ethos.
The position requires shift work, including occasional nights, on a rotational basis.
Main duties include:
1. Maintaining patients dignity, privacy and safety at all times. Assessing risk
2. Adhering to mental capacity and mental health act.
3. Recognising potential signs of harm and ensuring patients are safeguarded.
4. Maintaining high professional standards.
5. Delivering and planning evidenced based care in collaboration with the patient, families and wider MDT.
6. Assessing patient need and delivering appropriate and timely interventions.
7. Safe administration and storage of medicines.
About us
Working for TEWV NHS Trust you can expect fantastic training & development opportunities with the strong links we have developed at our local universities'.
Future planning is supported by the Trust's Talent Management and Workforce Development Team, so we can continue to build upon our commitment of being well led and to deliver excellent care to our communities in either leadership & management or clinical practice modules.
The ethos of the service is to work collaboratively with service users and carers in the completion of assessments, treatment, intervention planning and rehabilitation to enable a person-centered recovery-focused approach to care, meeting their needs in a holistic manner.
The Trust offer a variety of staff benefits and rewards packages including:
8. NHS Pension
9. Training & development opportunities
10. Flexible working
11. Access to Employee Assistance & Health & Wellbeing programmes
12. Car lease scheme
13. Free onsite gymnasium access
14. Free Parking
15. RN & HCA Council member
16. Think On Coaching opportunities
17. QI Training
18. Plus Many more...
Details
Date posted
16 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
346-FMH-118-25-A
Job locations
Roseberry Park Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3AF
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
This post is only open to those candidates who already have their NMC registration in place and have successfully completed the preceptorship programme. Please note: Newly qualified applicants or those due to qualify will be recruited via a separate process.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
19. Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council RNMH or RNLD
20. To be recognised practice assessor / mentor or work towards in an agreed timescale
21. Trained Clinical Supervisor (within 6 month probationary period)
22. Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Experience
Essential
23. Working with people with mental ill health / learning disabilities
24. Working in a person centred therapeutic organisation
25. Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
26. Working in a multi-disciplinary team
27. Working in partnership with other agencies
Knowledge
Essential
28. Evidence based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
29. Understanding of relevant legislation (. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act)
30. Understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
31. Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
32. Clinical Governance and its application in practice
33. Confident working knowledge of clinical medicines management, including administration of injections