Lead Nurse (Low Secure Unit)

Job summary

Are you a passionate and motivated nurse leader? We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as aLead 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 20-bed unit across two wards - Curzon and Scarsdale, providing 24-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:

• Provide visible clinical leadership and support.
• Champion high-quality, evidence-based care.
• Supervise and guide colleagues across the wider multi-disciplinary team.
• 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 tomake 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:

• 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.
• Be responsible for establishing operational and clinical service mechanisms that support safe and high-quality care throughout the twenty-four-hour period.
• Have opportunities to take the lead on new developments and will be responsible for ensuring that local and national standards and targets are met.
• 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.
• Work effectively within a multi-disciplinary setting and will ensure that effective co-ordination exists and is maintained, between the various stakeholders involved.
• Be part of our bleep-holder role on a rota basis, which lends itself to bed management, and support of the Kingsway Campus.
• 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.

About us

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:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities