Job summary
Exciting Opportunities to Join Our Forward-Thinking Multidisciplinary Team - Women's Mental Health Enhanced Care Unit (ECU)

The Band 6 Specialist Nurse provides expert clinical and operational leadership within the Women's Mental Health Enhanced Care Unit, delivering safe, effective, person-centred, and recovery-focused care.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will lead on the assessment, planning, and delivery of care for women with complex mental health needs. You will support risk management, safeguarding, physical healthcare, and evidence-based interventions, ensuring care remains trauma-informed and least restrictive.

As a clinical leader and role model, you will promote excellence in nursing practice, provide supervision and support to staff, and contribute to service improvement, governance, and workforce development.

This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative service and make a meaningful difference to the recovery and wellbeing of women receiving specialist mental health care.

Main duties of the job
As a specialist practitioner, the post holder will champion innovation, quality improvement, and best practice, ensuring the Enhanced Care Unit delivers high-quality therapeutic care alongside effective medical treatment, supporting positive outcomes and recovery for women accessing the service and overall support of the women's pathway.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide specialist clinical leadership and expert mental health nursing practice.
• Lead the delivery of a therapeutic and medically informed model of care.
• Maintain oversight of operational service delivery, patient flow, staffing, and resource management.
• Support the assessment and management of complex clinical presentations and risk.
• Promote trauma-informed, recovery-focused, and least restrictive approaches.
• Provide professional leadership, supervision, and development for nursing and support staff.
• Work in partnership with patients, carers, families, and the multidisciplinary team.
• Lead quality improvement, audit, governance, and service development initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with professional, organisational, and regulatory standards.
• Foster a positive ward culture that promotes safety, wellbeing, therapeutic engagement, and outstanding patient experience.

About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Date posted: 05 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 338-8317756-26-A

Job responsibilities
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you will find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential

• Part III or 13 of NMC live register
• Post registration/graduate diploma or equivalent experience in related work area, to demonstrate advanced level of practice.
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers, and their application to clinical and service area, e.g., Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion

Desirable

• Leadership training/qualification/experience
• Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility.

Experience
Essential

• Evidence of development of specialist practice nursing skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held.
• Development of specialist/advanced level of practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice.
• Working within a PBS framework.

Skills and Competencies
Essential

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring.
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills.
• Good time management skills

Desirable

• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change.
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures to effectively lead and manage others

Employer details
Employer name: Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Townend Court, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 8QR, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.humber.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact: Team Lead Naomi Anderson, naomi.anderson3@nhs.net, 01482335646

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. 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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)