Senior Nurse

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Hampshire County Council are excited to welcome a highly skilled Senior Nurse to join our expanding Partners in Practice (PiP) Team.

This is an opportunity to be part of a forward thinking, multidisciplinary service embedded within Children's Services hubs across Hampshire. The PiP team provides specialist consultation, training, and targeted interventions for children and young people supported by Children's Services.

As a Senior Nurse, you will bring clinical leadership, safeguarding expertise, and a strong understanding of mental health and risk management. You will contribute to complex case formulation, deliver specialist interventions, and support social care colleagues through consultation and reflective practice.

You will be central to shaping a psychologically informed, trauma aware culture across the service -- and will have genuine scope to influence practice at a system level.

Our CAMHS teams have a strong and supportive culture, with excellent structures regarding supervision and support. This isa great opportunity to join our service as part of HIOW NHS Foundation Trust Children & Families Service line to support the delivery of high-quality children's mental health services. We are looking for exceptional individuals who share our passion to deliver the best quality care and experiences for children and their families.

Main duties of the job

*The Partners in Practice (PiP) team is undergoing an exciting expansion to a well-established team. This will require an experienced senior nurse who can bring a robust, specialist mental health perspective.

*This is a clinical role with leadership responsibilities, including deputising for the Team Manager in their absence.

*The post holder will support the Team Manager and PiP leadership team to work with senior leadership colleagues in community CAMHS and Hampshire County Council (HCC) to drive forward and launch the expanded service within HCC community hubs.

*The post holder would offer a specialist mental health perspective to the multidisciplinary team/hubs through direct therapeutic work, consultation, joint work, and participation in team meetings. The post holder will work closely with the Children's social care teams to provide the social worker foundation team with additional, co--located services.

*The post holder will be expected to adapt to the changing requirements emerging over time and work in partnership with their manager and the senior leadership team, both within PiP and the wider CAMHS division, to support changes to both the service delivery model and staffing structures.

*The role will require leadership in a multi-agency, multi-provider environment in community settings and requires a strong background in mental health nursing with experience working with children.

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: 29 June 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 7
• Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: 348-CFS-11736
• Job locations: Cromwell House, 15 Andover Road, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 7BT, 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.