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Professional Skills Instructor/Mentor in Mental Health Nursing

University of Derby -
Chesterfield

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
£32,260 - £41,689 a year
8 days ago

Benefits

Cycle to work scheme
On-site gym
Annual leave
Company pension
Employee assistance programme
Employee discount
Sick pay

Qualifications

Driving Licence
GCSE
English
Administrative experience
Maths
Bachelor's degree
Organisational skills
Business requirements
Communication skills
Teaching
Nursing
Time management
NMC

Full job description

Job details

Responsible to

Subject Lead for Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing

Location

St Helena, Chesterfield Kedleston Road, Derby Campus

Closing date

Thursday 9 July 2026

Salary

£32,260 to £36,251 per annum (for exceptional performers, there is scope for further progression up to £41,689 per annum).

Job grade

ATOS 6

Reference

0145-26

Contract type

Permanent

Post type

Full-time

Adaptive working type

Onsite
This role will be based on site, primarily in the named location.

About the University

We have one simple promise – to make a positive impact. Through our ground-breaking research, teaching excellence and commitment to sustainable living, we are changing lives for the better.

The University of Derby is a modern university with a modern outlook. Everything we do is driven by delivering excellence and opportunities for our students, our staff and our region.

We have some of the best university facilities in the UK and achieve outstanding results for our teaching and research and have been awarded Gold in the prestigious Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023 – making it one of the top universities in the country recognised for its outstanding student experience and student outcomes.

Financially strong and seriously ambitious we offer our employees an inclusive culture that centres itself around staff wellbeing, where you can be confident you will receive all the help and encouragement you need to build a rewarding career with lots of opportunities to enhance your skills.

About the College/Department

At the heart of shaping future professionals and creative thinkers, the College of Health and Humanities brings together two dynamic and diverse schools:

The School of Health and Social Care

Preparing the next generation of healthcare professionals and social care leaders through hands-on learning, expert teaching, and strong industry partnerships. Our courses are designed to meet the demands of real-world practice and improve the health and wellbeing of our communities.

The School is made up of a broad range of subjects, reflecting the diversity and complexity of modern health and social care settings:

Adult Nursing
Associate and Enhanced Healthcare Practice
Midwifery, Children’s Nursing and Professional Practice
Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing
Public Health and Social Care
Diagnostics and Clinical Interventions
Therapy and Rehabilitation

Through an integrated approach to learning and professional development, our students are equipped with the knowledge, values, and skills to thrive in their chosen fields and make a lasting impact.

The School of Humanities, Law and Creative Arts

Celebrating creativity, critical thinking, and cultural exploration. This school nurtures writers, performers, thinkers and artists, offering opportunities to grow intellectually and creatively across subjects like English, History, Creative Writing, Fine Art, and Media.

Together, the College of Health and Humanities delivers a rich, interdisciplinary environment where students gain the skills, experience, and inspiration to make a meaningful impact in society.

About the discipline

At the University of Derby, our discipline of Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing is committed to developing compassionate, resilient, and skilled professionals who are ready to make a real difference in the lives of individuals and communities.

Rooted in the values of dignity, inclusion, and person-centred care, our programmes prepare students to support people with complex mental health needs and learning disabilities across a variety of settings. We focus on evidence-based practice, interdisciplinary learning, and service-user engagement, ensuring graduates are confident and capable in delivering safe, high-quality care.

With a strong emphasis on clinical placements, professional development, and emotional intelligence, this discipline nurtures future nurses who are advocates for change and champions of mental health and learning disability services.

About the role

Our Professional Skills Instructor/Mentors will support the development of professional skills, practical technical, vocational, and associated learning for students and apprentices and, where necessary, support their individual learning needs and progress monitoring both in the workplace, on placement, at alternative venues, on College/University premises or online. This will include supporting teaching, learning, and assessment, and the provision of work and learning mentoring and coaching. Your role will be to work with our academic teams to support our students develop to their full potential.

Your responsibilities will include:

Supporting teaching, learning, and assessment
Mentoring and coaching to enhance learning and growth
Monitoring progress and addressing individual learning needs
Maintaining accurate records of both formal and informal training activities

If you’re committed to helping learners succeed and thrive in their careers, we’d love to hear from you!

About You

We're looking for healthcare professionals who have an interest in education and supporting students to achieve highly. This role is suitable for anyone at any stage of their professional career for example early-career professionals or those considering a change from clinical work. We value all of your knowledge and skills, from whichever field of practice you are in.

We are seeking a healthcare professional with a relevant degree and current NMC registration as a Mental Health Nurse, who holds or is willing to work towards a teaching qualification and can demonstrate continued professional development in mentoring or coaching. We would also be able to consider candidates who are registered with the NMC as a Nursing Associate, provided your experience is within Mental Health.

You will bring experience from the health or care sectors, with the ability to engage learners and deliver high‑quality outcomes through strong communication, organisation, and time‑management skills.

You will be confident working both independently and as part of a team, committed to widening participation and supporting professional development, and flexible in working across multiple sites and with external partners.

Principal accountabilities

To plan and deliver professional, practical, technical, vocational and associated theoretical learning activities for students and apprentices including training, support for learning and assessment using a variety of methods both on and off the job.

Prepare suitable learning materials for a range of activities to develop the student’s knowledge, skills and behaviours linked to relevant apprenticeship standards or regulatory body frameworks.

Demonstrate tasks and processes to individuals and groups.

Provide instruction to the specified standards and provide feedback to students on progress through written and online methods, coaching for high expectations of progress and attainment.

Provide support and mentoring for students and apprentices in the setting of goals and objectives pertaining to their professional skill development needs.

To deliver advice and support, based on an in-depth knowledge and understanding of your discipline area e.g develop an understanding of course structures, learning outcomes, and PSRB requirements; undertake reviews with students, mentors, external partners and Personal Academic Tutors; review training needs and conduct action planning that support the development of knowledge skills and behaviours in relation to all practice learning opportunities e.g. Virtual, Clinical, Leadership and Management, Education, Research; provide guidance and support to students around setting objectives ahead of practice learning and identifying gaps/areas for further focus.

Provide individual and group mentoring for students and apprentices to ensure that apprenticeship candidates are selected appropriately and are matched to the needs of the employer.

Supervise groups of apprentices undertaking knowledge and skill acquisition through scheduled off-the-job learning activities, project work or while on work placement.

Assess knowledge and skills acquisition using a variety of assessment methods including individual coaching techniques to accelerate the learning of knowledge, skills, and behaviours.

Provide specific learning support and coaching to students and apprentices as required and ensure that learning support records are kept up to date.

Work with groups of students, apprentices, or individuals to prepare them for external qualification and end-point assessment according to the requirements of the relevant apprenticeship.

Complete all associated internal, employer and external documentation and track the student’s progress, including recording student and apprentice data on attendance and achievement using prescribed records systems, both manual and online.

Ensure that any assessment carried out is completed to the standards laid down by the awarding body and the College Quality Assurance systems.

Integrate the development of English and Mathematics skills, including their integration into broader learning activities linked to both on and off-the-job activities.

Monitor attendance of students and apprentices at prescribed off-the-job learning activities, ensuring that records systems are updated as required and employers are kept informed.

Ensure that students and apprentices are coached to always behave in a professional manner to a high standard of safety in the workplace and during off-the-job activities.

Work with liaison and business development teams and independently to develop new business opportunities and placements to increase employer engagement and apprentice uptake and progression.

To undertake any other duties which may, from time to time, reasonably be required within the general level of responsibility.

General Duties

Achieve personal and team targets for recruitment, progress, completion and achievement or apprentices within designated durations.

To take an active role in the mentoring and progress of students and apprentices, providing a liaison between the student/apprentice, their employer and the off-the-job training provider.

Take an active part in the College and University’s Staff Development Programmes

Take an active role, when required, in all curriculum management activities, including open days, recruitment events and external moderation activities.

To understand and comply with the University’s Equality and Diversity Policy.

To comply with copyright, software licensing legislation and related University procedures.

To ensure that the College’s quality assurance procedures are adhered to, and additional action is taken where necessary.

To comply with the requirements of Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults, Health and Safety, Quality and other University policies including Risk Management.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

Qualifications

Good Honours Degree in a relevant subject or discipline.
Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a Mental Health Nurse; or if registered as a Nursing Associate, experience working in Mental Health
Hold or be willing to undertake a teaching qualification.
Level 2 Qualifications (either in Functional Skills or GCSE A-C/4-9) in both English and maths or a willingness to achieve within an agreed timescale.

Experience

Experience within and/or knowledge of the health and/or care sectors; specifically Mental Health.
Demonstrable evidence of ability to engage with learners to support high quality learning outcomes.

Skills, knowledge and abilities

Highly developed communication skills
Ability to use own initiative.
Ability to work effectively on your own and with a small team.
Well-developed administrative and organisational skills
Ability to work flexibly within a team.
Good time management skills.

Business requirements

A commitment to the principle of widening participation
A commitment to continued professional development.
A commitment to College and University values and behaviours.
Willingness and flexibility to travel and work between University and external sites in a cost effective and timely manner.
Evidence of CPD in mentoring, coaching or demonstrating.

Desirable Criteria

Qualifications

Postgraduate qualification(s) in a relevant subject area.
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Fellowship or Associate Fellowship of Advanced HE (HEA).

Experience

Experience or knowledge of higher education and ability to use a range of techniques to inspire and engage students.
Experience of Internal and External verification and moderation processes
Practical experience of promoting equality and diversity.
Practical experience of promoting Behaviours and attitudes.
Practical experience of promoting Personal development.

Skills, knowledge and abilities

An appropriate level of digital capability and aptitude with practical experience of applications which aid student learning.
Ability to communicate complex and conceptual ideas to a range of groups.
Excellent written and oral communication skills including networking and relationship building skills, both across the University and externally.
Understanding of the current higher education environment and its implications for the student learning experience.

Business requirements

Ability to work evenings, weekends and during holiday periods.
Full UK driving license.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement of 38 days inclusive of bank holidays and concessionary days (pro rata)
Local Government Pension Scheme
Suite of holistic wellbeing benefits and support including family-friendly policies, generous sick pay provision and comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
Access to a variety of staff discounts at high street retailers
Discounted onsite gym
Cycle to Work scheme
A flexible working environment
A commitment to personal and professional development

Key contact

For further information and informal enquiries regarding the role, please contact Victoria Sweetmore, Subject Lead for Mental Health and Learning Disability Nursing via [email protected].

For enquiries regarding your application and for sponsorship eligibility, please contact the recruitment team via [email protected].

Important information

Visa Sponsorship Eligibility

The University is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers under the Skilled Worker route for this role; however, applications are welcome from candidates who are able to demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

DBS check

If you are successful, you will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Any information you provide will be treated in confidence and only used when considering your suitability for the post.

To enable us to process your DBS check please ensure you are able to supply the documentation listed on the DBS website at interview stage.

Equity, diversity and inclusion

The University of Derby is committed to promoting equity, diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, disability, trans status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief (or none), sex and sexual orientation.

We are Disability Confident Employers, demonstrating our commitment to disability inclusion, and invite applicants to highlight adjustments they may require to ensure equitable participation in our recruitment processes.

Further, we are committed to ensuring an environment which is trans and non-binary-inclusive for all our staff, students, partners, and visitors, and continuously review our policies, guidance and training.

When applying to join the University, you can choose your preferred title, including the gender-neutral title 'Mx'. We also ask our candidates if they would like to share their preferred pronouns. This is voluntary but demonstrates our commitment to inclusivity for trans and non-binary candidates. Once employed, you can add pronouns and preferred names onto our system.

The University of Derby undertakes anonymised shortlisting during the staff recruitment process. This means that, when shortlisting, panel members will not be able to see an applicant’s name and will see an applicant number instead. This demonstrates the practical steps we are taking to remove barriers to recruitment by minimising the possible impact of our unconscious bias.

However you identify, we actively celebrate the knowledge, experience and talents each person brings. Our students come from a wide range of backgrounds; therefore we are particularly interested to hear from applicants who will help our leaders and teams be more reflective of our student population.

Read more about equity, diversity and inclusion at the University of Derby.

Environmental Sustainability

At the University of Derby, we are passionate about embedding sustainability into everything that we do. We aim to bring environmental sustainability into all aspects of the University, including teaching, research and operational activities. In line with the University's strategic framework, we expect all our staff to embed sustainability into their working practices and support the University's objective to reach net zero carbon by 2050.

Continue your career evolution with us, apply now at University of Derby.

How to apply

You can apply by submitting an online application. Once you have signed in or registered with us you will be able to begin your application. If you are creating an account for the first time, please ensure you provide an email address that you access regularly as this will be our main means of contacting you regarding your application.

The University reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

If you require any assistance, including the provision of any documentation in an alternative format, please contact the Recruitment team at [email protected].

Please note all applications must be submitted online by Midnight GMT on the closing date of the vacancy.

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