Mental Health Staff Nurse - Inpatients

Job overview

Successful applicants will be invited to attend an Selection day at Carew House, Bodmin on 19th June 2026. This will be a morning or afternoon to be confirmed.

We are looking for caring, compassionate and motivated individuals to join our Mental Health Inpatient Services as Staff Nurses across a range of specialist settings, including Forensic, Psychiatric Intensive Care (PICU), Acute, Rehabilitation,  Children Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), Dementia Older People and Place of Safety units.

This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference to people’s lives by supporting individuals during some of their most challenging times.

This role involves working shifts across a 24-hour period, including:

• Long days
• Nights
• Twilight shifts
• Weekends and bank holidays

Bodmin Hospital

• Sowenna
• Fettle
• Garner
• Harvest
• Bowman
• Fletcher
• East Place of Safety

Longreach Hospital

• Carbis
• Cove
• Perran
• West Place of Safety

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and may be required to teach other nursing and non- nursing staff.

To provide designated named nurse responsibility for a number of patients.

To provide leadership, supervision and support to junior staff both qualified and unqualified in the absence of the Clinical Team Leader and Unit Manager during the course of the normal shift pattern, and to ensure the efficient and effective use of resources available to deliver a high standard of quality care to service users.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.