Overview
Job summary: An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Warwick Hospital as we establish a brand-new Enhanced Care Team. We are looking for two experienced and motivated Band 6 Enhanced Care Team Leads to help shape and lead this important new service. As an Enhanced Care Team Lead, you will provide clinical and operational leadership to the Enhanced Care Support Team, ensuring that patients with complex needs receive safe, effective, and person-centred care across the hospital. You will coordinate the daily running of the service, including staff allocation and rota management, while supporting colleagues to deliver high standards of enhanced care. Working collaboratively with nursing and medical teams, you will offer professional advice, guidance, and oversight. You will be responsible for reviewing and assessing patients who require enhanced care, contributing to risk assessments and care planning, and assisting with mental health assessments where appropriate. You will also play a key role in developing and standardising enhanced care processes to ensure safe, consistent, and compassionate care delivery. We are seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) or Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with a current NMC registration and experience of providing enhanced care, ideally within an acute hospital setting. Apply now and be part of developing our Enhanced Care Team. Interviews will be taking place on 12th December 2025.
Responsibilities
* The Enhanced Care Team has been established to deliver specialist support to patients requiring an enhanced level of care, and to provide operational leadership and coordination for the Enhanced Care Support Team. The post holder will participate in a rota to provide cover seven days a week.
* The Enhanced Care Team is responsible for delivering direct care and support – including therapeutic activities, observation, and supervision – for patients with complex needs.
* The post holder will contribute to the development and standardisation of enhanced care processes, ensuring that safe and effective care is consistently delivered. They will work closely with Nursing and Medical staff, offering professional leadership and maintaining high standards of patient care in line with statutory and professional guidelines.
* A key part of the role is to influence and improve the quality of enhanced care across the acute hospital setting. This includes supporting patients with mental health conditions, dementia, learning disabilities, autism, and other complex needs.
Qualifications and experience
* Essential: Registered RMN or RN with the NMC
* Masters level study or equivalent
* Teaching/Mentoring qualification or equivalent experience
* Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of professional portfolio and registration revalidation
* Essential: Significant experience in the acute clinical setting
* Experience of working with patients who are experiencing complexities in their health and wellbeing such as dementia, mental health issues including eating disorders, learning disabilities
* Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act
* Experience of supporting patients who may be in distress or have escalating and deregulated behaviours
* Evidence of recent teaching experience and appropriate proven leadership and management experience
Skills and personal qualities
* Highly effective communication skills - verbally and written to staff, patients and relatives including in situations of conflict or distress
* Strong organisational skills - prioritising complex situations
* Ability to act as a role model, mentor, and assessor
* Able to advise on and implement improvements to the quality and efficiency of care for patients
* Ability to cope with sensitive and sometimes distressing emotional issues, and to support others
* Ability to work alone or as part of a team
* Aware of current national changes in nursing/NHS
Details
* Date posted: 30 October 2025
* Band: Band 6
* Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year Per annum
* Contract: Permanent
* Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
* Reference number: 203-CR147
* Job locations: Warwick Hospital, Lakin Road, Warwick, CV34 5BW
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are \'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care\'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:
We are committed to equal opportunity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
Details regarding the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion survey are available in the job description, and any links have been removed here.
Other information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service 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 see the UK Visas and Immigration website.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see the NHS Careers website.
Employer details: South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust, Warwick Hospital, Lakin Road, Warwick, CV34 5BW.
Website: https://www.swft.nhs.uk/
#J-18808-Ljbffr