Consultant Nurse Hospitals (Mental Health)

Job overview

We are seeking two exceptional Consultant Nurses to drive high-quality, evidence-based care across our inpatient mental health services. This senior clinical leader will combine expert practice, education, professional leadership, and service development/research to improve outcomes and shape the future of our all ages inpatient mental health wards.

As a Consultant Nurse, you will:

• Provide advanced, autonomous clinical practice, working directly with individuals, families, and communities at least 50% of the time.
• Act as a catalyst for innovation, driving improvements in safety, quality, and compassionate care pathways across the inpatient teams.
• Offer expert guidance to clinicians, services, and system partners, influencing strategic decision‑making and policy development.
• Lead and contribute to education, training, mentorship, and professional development, strengthening the nursing workforce and promoting excellence.
• Shape service design through research, evaluation, and evidence‑based practice, ensuring consistent, high‑quality support for people with mental health and neurodevelopmental needs.

This is a unique opportunity to have a profound impact within inpatient services and across systems—enhancing integration, elevating nursing leadership, and improving outcomes for patients, carers, families, and staff across the division.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide professional nursing leadership, strategic direction, supervision and expert consultancy, on all aspects of clinical nursing practice and care of people with mental health issues across the Division. The post holder will support staff and have a specific remit to develop practices and services. This will involve working across professional and organisational boundaries, collaborating with service users and other professionals including carers, health professionals, social workers, voluntary sector staff and local education providers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

My job makes better lives by providing inspiring nurse leadership for our operational services to achieve better outcomes and experience for people, their families and staff through the strategic development, sustained systems and excellent nurse leadership of our quality improvement programs.  As an experienced and credible clinician, you will influence and support the development of nurses in the delivery and improvement of services to people using services, families and carers.