Senior Mental Health Nurse

Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to be part of a team that supports and improves outcomes for young people at risk of long-term care or inpatient psychiatric admission?

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and creative senior nurse to be part of forming the service and leading on training for new staff to deliver on the vision. We want to ensure that we provide a safe environment with highly skilled staff where we can really understand the underlying issues behind presenting crisis and ensure that any future planning is undertaken in a calm, considered way to ensure longer term stability for children. You will be a culture carrier for high-quality, aspirational care of vulnerable young people to improve longer terms outcomes.

Utilising your experience in mental health nursing working with young people, you will be pivotal in setting the standard for safe, compassionate, and evidence-based care as part of a wider multi-agency team. You will share your knowledge and experience of working with children and young people with complex needs, that current services struggle to meet. You will help to train residential staff to support young peoples mental health needs and effectively risk manage.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.