# Reducing Restrictive Practices Nurse/Practitioner

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Trust Headquarters, King's Mill Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Nurse practitioner
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part time - 0.6 hour per week (3 days - Monday to Friday 9-5)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T13:50:55.380Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/Sutton_Ashfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Nursing_allied_health_professionals/Nursing_allied_health_professionals-v8353645
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8353645?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Safeguarding & Vulnerabilities Team as a Band 5 Reducing Restrictive Practice Nurse/Practitioner. This innovative role will support the Trust's commitment to delivering least restrictive, trauma-informed and person-centred care across all clinical services. The post holder will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to reduce the use of restrictive practices, prevent and manage violence and aggression through early intervention, and improve outcomes and experiences for patients, families and staff.

You will provide specialist advice, deliver training, support incident reviews and quality improvement initiatives, and help staff understand and respond effectively to behaviours associated with distress, dysregulation and complex needs.

This role is integral to reducing the use of restrictive practices by improving staff confidence, capability, and compassion. Through your expertise and leadership, you will help create environments where patients feel safe, respected, and empowered, while supporting staff to deliver high-quality care in the least restrictive way possible.

If you are passionate about safeguarding, human rights, trauma-informed care, and making a meaningful difference to the lives of patients and staff, we would love to hear from you.

### Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Can communicate information that could be considered emotive and distressing. Understands and overcomes barriers to communication and acceptance.
- Effective teaching and facilitation skills.
- Ability to influence and support behavioural and cultural change.
- Analytical skills to interpret incident data and clinical information.
- Ability to build a rapport quickly and efficiently.
- Ability to prioritise workload and work autonomously within frameworks.

**Desirable**

- Knowledge of trauma-informed care approaches.
- Understanding of human rights-based care (e.g., Restraint Reduction Network principles).
- Experience in quality improvement methodologies (QI).

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience supporting individuals with complex needs, distress, or crisis.
- Experience delivering training or education to staff.
- Experience working across multi disciplinary and multi-agency settings.

### Contractual

**Essential**

- Participates in change.
- A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered health or social care professional (e.g. NMC or equivalent) or equivalent relevant experience.
- Qualification or demonstrable experience in: Health and social care, Positive Behaviour Support / behaviour management, Teaching or training delivery.
- Willingness to undertake Level 3 Award in Education and Training (AET).

**Desirable**

- Evidence of degree / working towards.
- Restrictive Practice or Violence Reduction qualification.

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10679354)
- [benefits leaflet (pdf, 834.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2702)
- [application guide (pdf, 584.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2448)
- [our staff networks (pdf, 810.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2938)
- [person specification (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10679355)

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