Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job overview

There is an exciting opportunity to join the Queen Elizabeth Hospital as a Registered Mental Health Nurse.

This role will see you managing a delegated caseload of Mental Health care services to people with Mental Health care needs, plus support and advising to other health care professionals.

To support aspects of service development as well as ensuring that personal appearance, practise, and manner conform to the standards and expectation of the trust.

Main duties of the job

To support the development of effective Mental Health care pathways within the service.

Provide the appropriate interventions to patients with mental illness (incorporating NICE guidelines) and participate in Mental Health promotion.

Practice autonomously in making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing, and providing a high quality of care, initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient centred.

Ensuring that all patients are given full explanation of their care pathway/treatment options and no decision is taken forward without their consent.

Working for our organisation

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is West Norfolk has a superb unspoilt coastline with pretty villages, all with their own individual charm. The medieval port of King's Lynn has some very interesting architecture.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist and general acute services to around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers and approximately 500 beds on a single site. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech. We work in partnership with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services.

In February 2022 the QEH the Care Quality Commission rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).

We are delighted to have been added to the New Hospital Programme – and we look forward to bringing a new Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) to King’s Lynn and West Norfolk which is nothing less than our patients, local communities and staff deserve.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this post, please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications/training and professional development

Essential criteria

• Nursing Degree or equivalent, DIP OT, Clinical psychology or equivalent
• Mentorship qualification or ENB 998. Willingness to train to become Sign-off mentor
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
• Higher Degree or post graduate certificate
• Registered mental Health Nurse

Desirable criteria

• Good to great management course or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of Mental Health practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages

Desirable criteria

• Experience in delivering group-based Interventions
• Experience in supporting service development

Skills, abilities, and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Risk assessment knowledge and skills
• Able to effectively prioritise own workload
• Ability to use basic IT skills
• Satisfactory verbal and written language skills
• Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
• Knowledge of psychosocial Interventions
• An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines (Government Initiative)

Desirable criteria

• PMA Training
• Prevention and Management of Suicide training
• Medicine Management
• Safeguarding training
• Developing knowledge of local wider systems and networks
• Knowledge of Health Promotion

Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race ,ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values.