Mental Health Nurse Development Post Band 5

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 27 January 2026

Brant Ward is an 18-bedded acute assessment ward for older adults experiencing complex mental health needs, based at Witham Court within the Older Adults and Frailty Division. We are pleased to offer a Band 5-6 Development Nurse post for motivated, compassionate and experienced Band 5 nurses who are ready to take the next step in their professional journey.

This post is designed for nurses committed to clinical excellence, leadership development and progression. It offers a structured and supported development pathway from Band 5 to Band 6, aligned with a formal competency framework and typically achieved over 12-18 months, subject to successful demonstration of competence.

Brant Ward is a fast-paced and rewarding inpatient environment, offering rich opportunities to develop skills in assessment, risk management, clinical decision‑making and therapeutic engagement with older adults experiencing acute mental illness. You will be supported by a visible and experienced senior nursing team who value supervision, learning and the development of future leaders.

The ward has a welcoming and inclusive culture, with high expectations of care quality, professionalism and teamwork. Staff describe Brant Ward as challenging but highly rewarding, with a strong sense of pride in the difference made to patients and carers.

This role will appeal to nurses who are ambitious, reflective and ready to develop increased responsibility and leadership within a supportive, values‑led service.

The post holder will work as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team to deliver safe, effective and compassionate inpatient nursing care to older adults experiencing acute mental health difficulties, in line with professional, organisational and information governance standards.

You will undertake nursing and risk assessments, contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of person‑centred care and risk management plans, and deliver a range of evidence‑based therapeutic nursing interventions that promote recovery, autonomy and wellbeing.

As a named nurse, you will coordinate care, contribute to clinical reviews and work collaboratively with service users, carers and the wider multidisciplinary team to support admission, treatment and discharge planning across the acute care pathway.

As part of the Band 5‑6 development pathway, you will progressively develop enhanced clinical reasoning, leadership and supervisory skills. This will include supporting students and junior staff, and taking increasing responsibility for the coordination of care and the day‑to‑day functioning of the ward, under the guidance of senior nurses.

You will actively engage in supervision, reflective practice, training, audit and service development activity, and work towards the competencies required to demonstrate readiness for progression to a Band 6 Senior Nurse role, in line with the Trust's competency framework and local governance arrangements.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well‑led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.

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We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we…