Job summary
Are you ready to take the next step in your career in mental health nursing while living on a beautiful island? We are inviting an experienced Band 7 Physical Health Lead Nurse to join our Inpatient Teams at Sevenacres, where collaborative, individualised care is at the heart of what we do.
Located on the stunning Isle of Wight, this role offers more than just professional fulfilment. As a close-knit island community, the Isle of Wight provides an excellent quality of life for families and individuals alike. With its unspoiled beaches, scenic countryside, and year-round family-friendly activities, it's the perfect place to build both your career and personal life.
About the Role
The post holder will have a high degree of autonomy and complex clinical decision making in Physical Health Nursing, leadership and management, education of teams/individuals with demonstration of core capabilities in Physical health care management
They will manage, under supervision, clinical care in partnership with Multidisciplinary team, individuals, families and carers, which will include the analysis and synthesis of complex problems across a range of settings, enabling innovative solutions to enhance people's experience and improve physical health outcomes.
They will practice autonomously using supervision structures and decision making in a context of complexity, uncertainty and varying levels of risk relating to physical health, holding accountability for decisions made.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work collaboratively with, and under supervision of the matron
- Establish values-based, professional and evidence-based physical health practice across pathways, services, organisations, and system working with individuals, families, carers and others.
- Develop values-based leadership skills within the nursing team and developing across the care pathway, services, and systems in complex and changing situations.
- Develop staff potential, add to, and transform the workforce, and help people to learn, develop and improve physical health care to promote excellence.
- Contribute to a 'knowledge-rich and inquiry' culture across the service and system that contributes to research outputs and has a positive effect on development, quality, innovation, increasing capacity and capability, and making systems more effective.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate professional qualification (nursing or allied health professional) that allows registration with the NMC
- Professional UK registration as a Registered General Nurse
- Degree level award (level 6) plus post graduate specialist training, experience, short courses to masters equivalent level.
- Able to demonstrate a good command of the English Language both written and verbal
- Computer Literate in both data entry and communicating via IT - emails and report
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of developing specialised clinical skills across the relevant speciality
- Evidence of implementing change to promote high quality practice
- Evidence of establishing values based professional and evidence-based practice across pathways, services, and organisations.
- System working with individuals, families, carers, communities, and others for population health and reducing inequalities.
- Contribution to service development, e.g. applying quality improvement methodology.
- Demonstratable experience of working within related areas and working at an appropriate senior level
- A positive attitude and ability to self reflect and to act on feedback from others
- Ability to praise, support, and empower others in their development
- Experience of clinical leadership
- Work with an increasing level of autonomy within own competencies
- Awareness of local and national agendas across area of speciality
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of current clinical and professional issues relevant to the field.
- Evidence of developing ability to perform multidisciplinary tasks and work across multi disciplinary boundaries.
- Evidence of participation in development of clinical practice, starting to be supported by advanced theoretical, practical knowledge and skills.
- High level planning, leadership and communication skills, including the ability to prioritise competing tasks in a highly complex and dynamic environment.
- Ability to develop positive relationship with a range of internal and external stakeholders
- Engagement in evaluation, audit or research activity
- Confidence in the application and analysis of data.
- Demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values
- Organisational and self management skills including those relating to own workload and those of others in an unpredictable environment
- Good communication skills including to communicate complex, sensitive or confidential information in an appropriate manner; to liaise effectively; to understand and disseminate multifaceted information
- Understanding of effective clinical governance including implications, quality and audit
- Evidence of the ability to deliver learning sessions (formal or informal) to groups of professionals
- Applies a good understanding of Equality & Diversity in all areas of work
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate professional qualification (nursing or allied health professional) that allows registration with the NMC
- Professional UK registration as a Registered General Nurse
- Degree level award (level 6) plus post graduate specialist training, experience, short courses to masters equivalent level.
- Able to demonstrate a good command of the English Language both written and verbal
- Computer Literate in both data entry and communicating via IT - emails and report
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of developing specialised clinical skills across the relevant speciality
- Evidence of implementing change to promote high quality practice
- Evidence of establishing values based professional and evidence-based practice across pathways, services, and organisations.
- System working with individuals, families, carers, communities, and others for population health and reducing inequalities.
- Contribution to service development, e.g. applying quality improvement methodology.
- Demonstratable experience of working within related areas and working at an appropriate senior level
- A positive attitude and ability to self reflect and to act on feedback from others
- Ability to praise, support, and empower others in their development
- Experience of clinical leadership
- Work with an increasing level of autonomy within own competencies
- Awareness of local and national agendas across area of speciality
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Detailed knowledge of current clinical and professional issues relevant to the field.
- Evidence of developing ability to perform multidisciplinary tasks and work across multi disciplinary boundaries.
- Evidence of participation in development of clinical practice, starting to be supported by advanced theoretical, practical knowledge and skills.
- High level planning, leadership and communication skills, including the ability to prioritise competing tasks in a highly complex and dynamic environment.
- Ability to develop positive relationship with a range of internal and external stakeholders
- Engagement in evaluation, audit or research activity
- Confidence in the application and analysis of data.
- Demonstrate the required behaviour in keeping with the Trust values
- Organisational and self management skills including those relating to own workload and those of others in an unpredictable environment
- Good communication skills including to communicate complex, sensitive or confidential information in an appropriate manner; to liaise effectively; to understand and disseminate multifaceted information
- Understanding of effective clinical governance including implications, quality and audit
- Evidence of the ability to deliver learning sessions (formal or informal) to groups of professionals
- Applies a good understanding of Equality & Diversity in all areas of work
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
