Mental Health Staff Nurse

Job summary

Are you kind, caring and enthusiastic?

Do you like working with and leading people?

Are you able to plan and implement interventions of care?

Hamtun Ward at Antelope House is a 10 bedded Male inpatient ward serving the Southampton area. We promote nurses to have a powerful voice within MDT with a continuous drive for improvement by staff. There will be support and leadership guidance from a clinical nurse lead and ward manager.

Hamtun Ward have a reflective culture to enable the team to work in synergy and enhance decision making. All staff are offered bespoke training, ensuring staff have the required skills and knowledge, to provide the highest standards of care. The wards ethos focuses on staffs' wellbeing and professional development. To ensure ongoing professional development, whilst delivering the highest quality care.

Main duties of the job

Assess patients, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care and carry out nursing procedures.

Provide direct nursing care and carry out nursing procedures.

Develop and evidence risk assessment and management skills and support high risk individuals through distress.

Assess patients/clients, plan develop/implement/evaluate programmes of care and carry out nursing procedures.

Ensures use of nursing knowledge and skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patients/clients/family/health needs as well as actively promote health and wellbeing.

Evaluate clinical outcomes and reports variance to clinical pathway, protocols, or best practice guidelines.

Contributes to effective discharge planning and/or referral processes to health care providers and support agencies to meet identified health needs.

Manage care of patients/clients on a day to day basis and when required manage care of all patients/clients in the absence of senior colleagues.

To be responsible for upholding people's rights under the Mental Health Act 1983.

To supervise junior staff.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details

• Date posted: 09 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 5
• Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 348-SAC-12623
• Job locations: Antelope House, Brintons Terrace, Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 0YG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).