Job summary
We're looking for passionate, dedicated individuals who genuinely want to make a difference. If you bring compassion, expertise, and a positive outlook to your work, you'll feel right at home on Rowan Ward.

Rowan Ward is a 15-bed, mixed-gender acute mental health ward based at the Summerlands Site in Yeovil, with an integrated Health-Based Place of Safety. Proudly AIMS accredited and recently reaccredited, we are committed to delivering high standards of care. With an additional purpose-built acute ward currently in development, this is an exciting time to join a service that is growing, evolving, and investing in the future.

Your Role as a Band 5 Staff Nurse
As a valued member of our multidisciplinary team, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality, compassionate care to adults experiencing acute mental health challenges. You'll work collaboratively and creatively, using approaches centred on engagement, recovery, and proactive care to enhance both patient experience and outcomes.

Why Join Us?
We believe that when our staff feel supported, they thrive-and so do our patients. That's why we offer:

• A welcoming, supportive team environment
• A strong focus on staff wellbeing
• Regular supervision and annual appraisal
• Psychology-led reflective practice groups
• A wide range of training and development opportunities to help you grow your career

If you're looking for a role where you can develop, feel valued, and truly make an impact every day, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver safe, effective and compassionate nursing care to adults experiencing acute mental health needs.
• Act as a named nurse / keyworker for designated service users, coordinating care and contributing to recovery planning.
• Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate care.
• Promote therapeutic engagement, risk management and positive clinical outcomes.
• Support and supervise junior staff, students and healthcare support workers.

About us
At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we're committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:

• Flexible working options to help you balance work and life
• NHS pension scheme for long-term financial security
• Generous annual leave allowance to recharge and relax
• A strong focus on career development to help you grow and achieve your potential

Additionally, you'll gain access to our Blue Light Card, unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work.

We are proud to foster a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

Why Somerset? Somerset offers the perfect blend of idyllic countryside, outstanding areas of natural beauty, and breathtaking coastlines, with vibrant cities like Bristol, Bath, and Exeter just a short drive away - and only two hours to London.

The region is home to excellent educational facilities, and with affordable housing compared to other parts of the country, it's a great place to build both your career and your future.

Somerset truly has it all - the peaceful countryside and cosmopolitan city life, with something for everyone to enjoy.

Job responsibilities

• Accept clinical responsibility for service users on the ward, assessing needs and planning, implementing and evaluating individualised nursing care in line with evidence-based practice.
• Establish and maintain purposeful therapeutic relationships with service users, promoting dignity, respect, recovery and independence.
• Complete and review all clinical documentation, care plans, risk assessments and outcome measures in line with Trust policy and professional standards.
• Observe, monitor and record changes in mental state, physical health and behaviour, escalating concerns appropriately.
• Administer medication safely and effectively in accordance with Trust policy and professional guidance.
• Support service users with activities of daily living, physical health monitoring, and engagement in therapeutic and recovery-focused activities.
• Work within legal and professional frameworks including the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, consent and deprivation of liberty safeguards.
• Communicate effectively with service users, carers and families, providing support, information and reassurance as appropriate.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary discussions, care reviews, discharge planning and risk management processes.
• Provide supervision, guidance and clinical leadership to healthcare support workers and students, acting as a positive role model.
• Participate in clinical governance, audit, mandatory training and ongoing professional development.
• Maintain a safe ward environment, adhering to safeguarding, health and safety, infection control and risk management policies.
• Take part in the ward rota as required, including nights, weekends and out-of-hours working.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Relevant degree or equivalent qualification Registered Mental Health Nurse Appropriately registered with the NMC as per post requirements

Desirable

• Teaching/Assessor qualificationEvidence of continuing professional development and to have undertaken post registration training

Experience
Desirable

• Experience of working in multi-agency services

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Must be a car driver with a valid driving licence or have access to transport with appropriate business insurance in order to travel throughout the Trust, to meet the needs of the service

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

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. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).