Job summary
- Main area
- Professional Nurse Educator
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-LS-Man-141
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lakeside MHU (West Mid)
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 per annum inclusive of 15% HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/02/2026 17:00
- Interview date
- 20/02/2026
Employer heading
Professional Nurse Educator
Band 7
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
West London NHS Trust is seeking a passionate and forward-thinking Professional Nurse Educator (Band 7) to play a pivotal role in developing our mental health nursing workforce within Hounslow Borough.
This is a rare opportunity to work embedded in clinical practice, supporting newly qualified nurses, students, and the wider nursing team to translate theory into confident, high-quality care. You’ll be at the heart of practice development — coaching, mentoring and delivering innovative, evidence-based education that directly improves patient experience, staff confidence and retention.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with senior nursing leaders, practice development teams and academic partners, you’ll lead on competency development, medication management, restrictive practice education and preceptorship, using quality improvement approaches to demonstrate real impact. You’ll be supported by a strong governance structure, Professional Nurse Advocates, and a Trust that is deeply committed to learning, inclusion and staff wellbeing.
If you’re an experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse with a passion for education, leadership and nurturing talent — and you want to make a visible, lasting difference to both staff and service users — this role offers the scope, support and influence to do just that
For more information please contact Emma Brown [email protected]
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
We would welcome applications from candidates who speak a second language
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Pack for full details about this role.
We think Hounslow Talking Therapies is a great place to work. If you would like to discuss this opportunity in more detail, please contact Step 2 Lead via email: [email protected]
For more information about our service and what we offer, please visit our website on https://www.westlondon.nhs.uk/our-services/adult/iapt/iapt-hounslow
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse with extensive clinical experience
- Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
- Postgraduate qualification in teaching or practice education
- Have completed and passed Professional Nurse Advocate PNA Training or be willing to undertake this course asap.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering training and development programmes
- Awareness of national strategic mental health nursing issues and key NHS policy drivers
- Experience of designing, developing, and evaluating education or development programmes
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of national policy relating to mental health services
- Knowledge of the Government’s modernisation agenda, including Clinical Governance
- Knowledge of quality improvement methodologies
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of education consortium structures and processes
- Understanding of systems theory
- Working knowledge of competency-based appraisal and assessment systems
Skills & Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills
- Strong team-working skills and ability to build effective partnerships
- Acts as a positive role model and source of inspiration
- Able to manage sensitive issues with confidence and decisiveness
- Effective time management skills
- Energetic and self-motivated
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of professional publications or contributions
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Miss Emma Brown
- Job title
- Lead Nurse for Quality & Safety
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07563375616
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Human Resources – Trust Headquarters
West London NHS Trust
1 Armstrong Way - Southall
UB2 4SA
- Telephone
- Mob: 07483968676
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