Staff Nurse

Staff Nurse + £6,000 Recruitment Incentive

The closing date is 23 January 2026

A newly qualified nurse looking for your first role?

Are you a qualified mental health or learning disability nurse looking to move from a suburban area in search of cleaner air and a better work life balance?

We have some great incentives that we can offer:

• Recruitment and Retention Premium (RRP) of £6,000 per year on top of the Band 5 salary. On average this will be £34,000‑£40,000 per annum (inclusive of average unsocial hours payments and the RRP)
• The successful candidate will receive up to £120 towards their registration fee, which will be paid upon commencement. This payment will be subject to tax and national insurance deductions.
• We also offer a fantastic preceptorship Programme that allows you to develop your clinical, communication and leadership skills with excellent support.

You will be responsible for the day‑to‑day running of a Learning Disability Medium Secure Unit and will assist the Team Leader in maintaining effective team working processes.

• Registered Nurses must be able to exercise a considerable degree of initiative, possess mature judgement and maintain a calm, friendly and efficient manner when dealing with patients, their relatives, colleagues and visitors.
• You will be required to work independently using initiative, and apply a high degree of confidentiality and professionalism to your work.
• You must be able to demonstrate good interpersonal and communication skills, manage competing demands and organise your own work in meeting deadlines in order for the smooth running of the ward area.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4,500 staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers – everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout.

Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

• To work in close collaboration with other professionals in a Medium Secure setting, assessing patients’ needs, devising person‑centered care plans and evaluating outcomes that promote patient empowerment through the process.
• Alongside the wider multidisciplinary team you will be expected to participate in providing high quality, individualized care, which addresses the needs and wants of adolescents and adults with Learning Disabilities and/or psychiatric disorders or challenging behaviours.

• Completion of management training
• Teaching / training experience

• Experience in care planning
• Organisational skills and the ability to work effectively within a management structure
• Communication skills – written, verbal and non‑verbal
• Provision of effective clinical supervision