Job overview

We are seeking two exceptional Consultant Nurses to drive high-quality, evidence-based care across our inpatient mental health services. This senior clinical leader will combine expert practice, education, professional leadership, and service development/research to improve outcomes and shape the future of our all ages inpatient mental health wards.

As a Consultant Nurse, you will:

• Provide advanced, autonomous clinical practice, working directly with individuals, families, and communities at least 50% of the time.

• Act as a catalyst for innovation, driving improvements in safety, quality, and compassionate care pathways across the inpatient teams.

• Offer expert guidance to clinicians, services, and system partners, influencing strategic decision‑making and policy development.

• Lead and contribute to education, training, mentorship, and professional development, strengthening the nursing workforce and promoting excellence.

• Shape service design through research, evaluation, and evidence‑based practice, ensuring consistent, high‑quality support for people with mental health and neurodevelopmental needs.

This is a unique opportunity to have a profound impact within inpatient services and across systems—enhancing integration, elevating nursing leadership, and improving outcomes for patients, carers, families, and staff across the division.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide professional nursing leadership, strategic direction, supervision and expert consultancy, on all aspects of clinical nursing practice and care of people with mental health issues across the Division. The post holder will support staff and have a specific remit to develop practices and services. This will involve working across professional and organisational boundaries, collaborating with service users and other professionals including carers, health professionals, social workers, voluntary sector staff and local education providers.

Working for our organisation

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.

We look forward to receiving your application!