Lead Nurse (Low Secure Unit)
NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area Mental Health Rehabilitation Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract 6 months (6 months fixed term with the possibility to extend or become permanent. Please seek approval from your current employer/line manager before making a secondment application) Hours Full time - hours per week Job ref -SPE-0- Site Kedleston Unit Town Derby Salary £, - £, pa, pro-rata Salary period Yearly Closing //5 :
Want to make a real difference and have a truly rewarding career? Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.
We’ve been rated ‘good’ overall by the CQC, with some outstanding services. The CQC commented at our most recent inspection on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the trust.
We are passionate about making equality, diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We take pride in our “People First Culture” which creates a workplace where everyone feels a genuine sense of belonging, difference is celebrated, and people are comfortable to bring their whole selves to work. We value the richness that comes from having colleagues that are fully representative of the local community. We welcome people who identify as Black, Asian or from a Minority Ethnic background, protected characteristics, and with all backgrounds and experiences.
Job overview
Are you a passionate and motivated nurse leader? We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Lead Nurse within our forensic, low secure, and rehabilitation service at Kingsway Hospital, Derby.
Could you help to strengthen our leadership team, inspire colleagues, and help shape the future of our service?
You’ll be part of a strong and supportive team based on a -bed unit across two wards – Curzon and Scarsdale, providing -hour inpatient nursing support at Kedleston.
Our service supports adults with severe and enduring mental illness, often with a forensic or risk history, who need longer-term assessment, treatment, and stabilisation before transitioning back into the community.
In this role, you’ll:
1. Provide visible clinical leadership and support.
2. Champion high-quality, evidence-based care.
3. Supervise and guide colleagues across the wider multi-disciplinary team.
4. Contribute to a service built on hope, compassion, and recovery-focused practice.
We’re proud of our commitment to least restrictive practice and our dedication to creating an environment where service users feel valued and empowered to achieve their personal goals.
This is a rewarding and dynamic leadership role where you’ll join a team that truly cares and have the chance to make a real difference.
If you’re ready to bring your skills, ideas, and passion for rehabilitation to a team that will value and support you (and has just been rated as ‘Good’in all CQC domains!), we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
5. Work with the team, driving change and offering assurance that our care meets the standards not only expected of us, but that our patients, relatives and carers deserve.
6. Be responsible for establishing operational and clinical service mechanisms that support safe and high-quality care throughout the twenty-four-hour period.
7. Have opportunities to take the lead on new developments and will be responsible for ensuring that local and national standards and targets are met.
8. Be responsible for ensuring that the clinical team operates within established legal and operational protocols and that robust clinical rationales exist for planned and delivered interventions.
9. Work effectively within a multi-disciplinary setting and will ensure that effective co-ordination exists and is maintained, between the various stakeholders involved.
10. Be part of our bleep-holder role on a rota basis, which lends itself to bed management, and support of the Kingsway Campus.
11. Deputise for the Senior Nurses where needed.
This post is full time and will involve working shifts, late and early shifts with occasional weekends, bank holidays and at times possible 9-5 shifts on weekdays.
Working for our organisation
Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of ‘making a positive difference in people's lives’.
CQC rated us as 'GOOD’ overall, commenting on how our colleagues “treated patients with compassion and kindness” and “felt positive and proud about working for the Trust.”
Benefits include:
12. Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
13. days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to days after 5 years & days after years’ service
14. Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
15. Generous NHS pension scheme
16. Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
17. Health service discounts and online benefits
18. Incremental pay progression
19. Free confidential employee assistance programme /7
20. Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
21. Health and wellbeing opportunities
22. Structured learning and development opportunities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the Job Description and Person Specification.
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Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
23. Educated to Diploma Level Dip HE Nursing) or Degree Level
24. Evidence of up to date Personal Development Plan Professional Portfolio
Desirable criteria
25. Experience in mentoring and supervising staff
26. Experience working with families and carers
Experience/Skills
Essential criteria
27. Post-registration clinical expertise that will include core competencies around NMC Nurse Competencies
28. Demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate and lead multi-professional teams
29. Demonstrate knowledge and expertise of CPA/Risk Assessment and Management Skills
30. Demonstrate the ability to lead the clinical team in a service user/ career focused way
31. Demonstrate exposure to and a comprehensive knowledge of Clinical Governance in action (audit, research clinical effectiveness etc)
32. Demonstrate operational management skills, including change management, project management etc
33. Demonstrate knowledge of legal and ethical issues relating to clinical practice, including policy and procedure development
34. Demonstrate an understanding of work-based legislation
Desirable criteria
35. Experience of working in secure and/or rehabilitation settings
Further details / informal visits contact
NameJoe KirkhamJob titleDeputy Area Service Manager, F&REmail numberAdditional information
Daudi Shaban, Acting Unit Manager ->
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Recruitment Team
Kingsway Hospital
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