Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Nurse Manager to lead our dedicated team on Falcon Ward, a 17-bed Medium Secure Male Admissions Ward within West London NHS Trust.
Falcon Ward provides specialist assessment, treatment and care for men experiencing mental disorder who require treatment within a secure setting. The ward primarily supports service users during the admission and assessment phase of their recovery journey, providing a safe, structured and therapeutic environment that promotes engagement, recovery and positive outcomes.
As Clinical Nurse Manager, you will provide strong clinical and operational leadership, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, safe and person-centred care. You will support and develop staff, promote continuous improvement, and work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to achieve the best outcomes for service users.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence service development and make a meaningful difference within a specialist forensic service.
As part of West London NHS Trust, you will benefit from regular supervision, ongoing professional development, a supportive working environment and excellent opportunities for career progression.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Nurse Manager will be responsible for providing clinical leadership to all ward-based staff and ensuring the MDT provides a consistent approach.
Overview of Main Duties and Responsibilities
- To establish and maintain communication, with various individuals and groups of patients, carers and staff on complex potentially stressful topics in a range of situations.
- To develop knowledge and practice on the ward and across the service.
- To promote best practice in health, safety and security.
- To develop and improve services.
- To enable people to exercise their rights and promote their equality and diversity.
- To ensure the ongoing assessment of people’s care needs on the ward.
- To ensure that the planning, delivery and evaluation of care programmes addresses the complex and changing needs all patients.
- To develop and sustain partnership working with individuals, groups, communities and agencies.
- To lead the ward team in the development of knowledge, ideas and work practice.
- To allocate, coordinate, monitor and assess the work of the team and individuals
- Adhere to NMC Code of Professional Conduct guidelines and requirements, promoting the highest standards of conduct and maintaining knowledge of current issues and changes in professional practice.
- To plan, obtain and deploy physical and/or financial resources.
Please refer to the candidate’s pack for more details.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached.
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Good leadership skills
- Able to deal with complex inter-related information and activities.
- Excellent team player and ability to facilitate partnership working
- Budget and resource management understanding
- Through personal actions provide innovative practice role model
- Competent in receiving and providing clinical supervision
- Facilitates contributions from all staff.
- Encourages innovation
- Create a climate and environment where staff feel valued and empowered
- Ability to manage competing priorities.
- Displays perseverance and tenacity to achieve results, including problem solving and influencing skills
- Ability to impart knowledge
- Effective communication and positive interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge and skills in mental health nursing practice with a clear understanding of contemporary forensic issues.
- A good understanding of operating CPA systems
- Be able to demonstrate professional development
- Able to assess priorities and identify patients’ needs.
Desirable
- Vision about service direction and clinical practice developments
Experience
Essential
- First line management experience.
- Two years’ experience as Band 6 in Mental Health Care inpatient services
- Experience of providing management supervision
- Experience as Primary Nurse.
Desirable
- Experience of leading teambuilding
- Experience in teaching/developing nurses
Qualifications
Essential
- Hold a current registration with the Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Nurse. RN3, RNMH, RN4, RN5, RN6, RNLD.
Desirable
- Masters Degree or equivalent experience
- ENB 770 or equivalent
- ENB 998 or45
- Teaching Qualification
- NVQ Assessor
- Relevant post registration health care and/or management qualifications
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Maintain awareness of professional and organisational developments.
- Emotional Resilience
- Good attendance record
- Ability to undertake training and duties compatible with the role including PMVA
- Ability to work unsupervised.
- Maintain high levels of integrity and professionalism
- Maintain standards of organisational and professional conduct
- To be highly accessible and visible.
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This advert is for Clinical Nurse Manager with West London NHS Trust in Southall, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £55,524 - £62,652 per annum inc HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 28 Jul 2026.
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