Job summary
Band 5 Adult Mental Health Inpatient Staff Nurse - Dale Ward

Are you looking for a new challenge and want to make a direct difference to patients, carers and staff every day? If you are, then this is an exciting time to join our services, which have a strong reputation for innovation and as such you will support us to shape our services.

This is an ideal opportunity for EXPERIENCED BAND 5 nurses

Main duties of the job
As a Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurse, you will:

• Assess service users' mental health, physical health, wellbeing, strengths, risks and individual needs.
• Plan, deliver, coordinate and evaluate evidence-based programmes of care.
• Act as named nurse where allocated and ensure care is appropriately coordinated, reviewed and documented.
• Develop therapeutic relationships with service users while maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
• Work collaboratively with carers, relatives and multidisciplinary colleagues, respecting confidentiality and consent.
• Monitor changes in presentation and respond appropriately to deterioration, increased risk or safeguarding concerns.
• Promote recovery-focused care, choice, dignity, inclusion and least restrictive practice.
• Maintain accurate, timely and confidential clinical records.
• Contribute to effective handovers, multidisciplinary discussions, admission, transfer and discharge planning.
• Undertake medication-related responsibilities within professional competence and relevant medicines policies.
• Support physical health monitoring and escalate concerns for timely assessment and treatment.
• Respond professionally to incidents, emergencies and periods of increased clinical risk.
• Delegate and supervise work appropriately, taking account of competence, experience and patient need.

About us
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country.

Across the whole of the region we provide:

• Adult and older adult mental health services
• Specialist learning disability services
• CAMHS

Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving.

We currently employ over 4,000 members of staff and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds.

Details
Date posted: 15 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 285-5483-MH
Closing date: 29 October 2026

Job responsibilities

• To contribute to quality improvement initiatives, e.g. clinical audit, essence of care.
• To take an active part in developing knowledge ideas and to support evidence based practice.
• To regularly take charge of the ward, taking responsibility for the clinical area in the absence of deputy/ward manager.
• To delegate and supervise the work of junior team members as appropriate to level of ability.
• To contribute to the development of junior members of staff and students, promoting an environment conducive to learning.
• To participate in regular management and supervision from ward manager/deputy ward manager.
• To participate in regular individual performance review (IPRs) and in the production of a personal development plan.
• To attend training courses that are mandatory, indicated in personal development plans or required by the needs of the service.
• To work flexible shifts including Nights, Weekends and Bank Holidays in accordance with service needs.

Person Specification
Qualification
Essential: RMN/RLDN
Desirable: has experience

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. Apply through our website.

Employer details
Employer name: Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Penn Hospital, Penn Road, Wolverhampton, WV4 5HN, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website.

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Interim Ward Manager Sabrena Rattu, Sabrena.rattu@nhs.net, 01902446730

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