Clinical Nurse

We are seeking a dedicated and clinically confident Clinic Nurse to provide leadership, coordination, and assurance across physical health provision within our locked mental health service. This is an important senior nurse-level role that will support safe, effective, and well-documented care for patients with complex mental health and physical health needs.
The successful candidate will work closely with the GP, nursing team, Clinical Lead, senior nurses, allied professionals, and unit teams to ensure physical health monitoring, GP clinic coordination, audit compliance, patient education, and governance reporting are delivered to a high standard.

About the Role:

• Coordinate weekly GP clinics, ensuring appointments are well organised, clinically appropriate, and supported by relevant information, blood results, ECGs, and documentation.
• Maintain oversight of annual physical health checks, AIMS assessments, optician, dental, and other routine physical health appointments.
• Support timely completion, uploading, review, and escalation of blood tests, ECGs, and other physical health monitoring requirements.
• Complete and oversee clinical audits, including emergency equipment, first aid provision, oxygen, infection control, Nourish documentation, primary nurse contacts, and Section 132 rights.
• Produce clear audit and governance reports that evidence compliance, risks, actions taken, outstanding actions, and areas for improvement.
• Deliver monthly physical health promotion clinics for patients through the Hub, using accessible and engaging information.
• Provide practical support and one-to-one training to nursing staff to strengthen documentation, care planning, physical health monitoring, and clinical confidence.
• Attend governance meetings and provide clear assurance updates on physical health compliance, audit outcomes, risks, and improvement actions.
• Complete weekly handover observations and twice-weekly unit

What We’re Looking For:

• Registered Nurse with the clinical knowledge, confidence, and leadership skills to work at senior nurse standard.
• Experience or strong interest in physical health provision within mental health,
  learning disability, or complex care services.
• Confident in clinical documentation, audit completion, governance reporting,
  and evidence-based practice.
• Able to work collaboratively with GPs, clinical teams, senior leaders, and
  external professionals.
• Organised, proactive, and able to manage competing priorities while maintaining
  high standards of patient care.
• Committed to patient engagement, health promotion, continuous improvement,
  and regulatory readiness.
• Willing to develop enhanced physical health competencies, including wound
  care, diabetes monitoring, venepuncture, ECG awareness, infection prevention,
  tissue viability, and medication-related physical health monitoring.