Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Consultant Nurse Hospitals (Mental Health)

The closing date is 09 April 2026

Job summary

We are seeking two exceptional Consultant Nurses to drive high-quality, evidence-based care across our inpatient mental health services. This senior clinical leader will combine expert practice, education, professional leadership, and service development/research to improve outcomes and shape the future of our all ages inpatient mental health wards.

As a Consultant Nurse, you will:

o Provide advanced, autonomous clinical practice, working directly with individuals, families, and communities at least 50% of the time.

o Act as a catalyst for innovation, driving improvements in safety, quality, and compassionate care pathways across the inpatient teams.

o Offer expert guidance to clinicians, services, and system partners, influencing strategic decision-making and policy development.

o Lead and contribute to education, training, mentorship, and professional development, strengthening the nursing workforce and promoting excellence.

o Shape service design through research, evaluation, and evidence-based practice, ensuring consistent, high-quality support for people with mental health and neurodevelopmental needs.

This is a unique opportunity to have a profound impact within inpatient services and across systems--enhancing integration, elevating nursing leadership, and improving outcomes for patients, carers, families, and staff across the division.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide professional nursing leadership, strategic direction, supervision and expert consultancy, on all aspects of clinical nursing practice and care of people with mental health issues across the Division. The post holder will support staff and have a specific remit to develop practices and services. This will involve working across professional and organisational boundaries, collaborating with service users and other professionals including carers, health professionals, social workers, voluntary sector staff and local education providers.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Date posted

31 March 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8c

Salary

£72,428 to £83,149 a year Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

325-7900119-HOSP

Job locations

Farnham Road Hospital

Farnham Road

Surrey

GU2 7LX

Job description

Job responsibilities

My job makes better lives by providing inspiring nurse leadership for our operational services to achieve better outcomes and experience for people, their families and staff through the strategic development, sustained systems and excellent nurse leadership of our quality improvement programs. As an experienced and credible clinician, you will influence and support the development of nurses in the delivery and improvement of services to people using services, families and carers.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NMC Registration
Master's degree or equivalent in a nursing related subject
Teaching qualification eg; ENB998, or City and Guilds 730

Desirable

Quality improvement methodology skills
Professional Nurse Advocacy qualification

Experience

Essential

Extensive successful experience in Senior Nurse role (Band 8b or above) or equivalent managerial role at a senior level within the NHS (Band 8b or above)
Significant experience of working within inpatient mental health settings, community settings and specialist pathways.
Significant evidence of successful implementation of a range of clinical governance initiatives to develop practice.
Evidence of managing clinical risk, assessment and case formulation of complex patients.
Nurse leadership including knowledge and skills regarding revalidation.
Detailed working knowledge of NHS practices, developing new policies across service and experience of implementing these.

Desirable

Successful delivery of quality improvement initiatives.
Expertise in research methodology and evidence-based practice and implementation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NMC Registration
Master's degree or equivalent in a nursing related subject
Teaching qualification eg; ENB998, or City and Guilds 730

Desirable

Quality improvement methodology skills
Professional Nurse Advocacy qualification

Experience

Essential

Extensive successful experience in Senior Nurse role (Band 8b or above) or equivalent managerial role at a senior level within the NHS (Band 8b or above)
Significant experience of working within inpatient mental health settings, community settings and specialist pathways.
Significant evidence of successful implementation of a range of clinical governance initiatives to develop practice.
Evidence of managing clinical risk, assessment and case formulation of complex patients.
Nurse leadership including knowledge and skills regarding revalidation.
Detailed working knowledge of NHS practices, developing new policies across service and experience of implementing these.

Desirable

Successful delivery of quality improvement initiatives.
Expertise in research methodology and evidence-based practice and implementation.

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.