Staff Nurse - Secure Inpatients Service

Job summary

Join Ridgeway Secure Inpatient Services as a Registered Nurse.

Ridgeway Secure Inpatient Services is seeking diverse, dynamic, and enthusiastic Registered Nurses to join our dedicated team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting the recovery, rehabilitation, and empowerment of our service users.

At Ridgeway, we provide specialist care for adults with mental health disorders, learning disabilities, or autism who present behaviours that may pose risks to themselves or others. Our service delivers individualised and comprehensive care packages within both Medium and Low Secure inpatient settings, with strong links to High Secure services and the wider justice system.

Our purpose-built facility has been designed to meet the unique needs of our service users, offering:

• Medium and Low Secure standard environments
• Spacious, modern accommodation
• Ensuite bedrooms
• Access to therapeutic, leisure, and outdoor spaces

As part of your role, you may be required to work across any of our three care pathways, with opportunities to support both male and female service users. This offers a varied, rewarding experience and the chance to develop a broad skill set within secure care.

If you're passionate about making a difference and want to work in a supportive, forward-thinking environment, we'd love to hear from you.

*Confirmed ward after successful interview. Part time hours of a minimum 22.5hrs per week may be considered for the right candidate.

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:

• Maintaining patients dignity, privacy and safety at all times. Assessing risk
• Adhering to mental capacity and mental health act.
• Recognising potential signs of harm and ensuring patients are safeguarded.
• Maintaining high professional standards.
• Delivering and planning evidenced based care in collaboration with the patient, families and wider MDT.
• Assessing patient need and delivering appropriate and timely interventions.
• Safe administration and storage of medicines.

About us

At Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV), you can expect exceptional training, development, and career progression opportunities supported through our strong partnerships with local universities.

Our commitment to developing our workforce is strengthened by the Trust's Talent Management and Workforce Development Team, who support colleagues in planning their future career pathways. Whether you are aspiring to leadership and management roles or looking to advance within clinical practice, TEWV provides access to structured development programmes designed to help you excel.

Our service ethos is centred around collaborative, person-centred care. We work closely with service users and carers throughout assessment, treatment, intervention planning and rehabilitation. This ensures a holistic, recovery-focused approach, enabling us to tailor care that truly meets individual needs.

As a valued member of our team, you will have access to a wide range of staff benefits, including:

• NHS Pension Scheme
• Extensive training & development opportunities
• Flexible working options
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Health & Wellbeing support
• Car lease scheme
• Free onsite gym access
• Free parking
• RN & HCA Council membership
• Think On coaching opportunities
• Quality Improvement (QI) training
• ...and many more