Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job Title: Registered Mental Health Nurse

Location: Mapother House

Pay Rates: Day £18.80 per hour

Sat/Nights £23.50 per hour

Sun/Bank Hols £28.20 per hour

Contract length:

On going – full time

X5 Staff needed

Working hours:

0700-1500

1300-2100

0700-2100

2030-0730

* Start Date: 25 March 2024

About the Trust – South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, rated ‘Good’ in their most recent CQC report, provides substance misuse services as well as the widest range of NHS Mental Health services in the UK. The Trust works across hospital sites and within the local community, striving to be a leader in improving health and wellbeing – locally, nationally and globally. It is the only Mental Health Trust in the UK to have their own biomedical research centre. Internationally, the Trust works with Macani Medical Centre, an Abu Dhabi based organisation, to bring quality health care to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Operating across south London, staff can benefit from excellent transport links, subsidised nursery spaces, cycle to work scheme and available staff accommodation.

As a member, you’ll have fantastic benefits:

•  Competitive pay rates – work this week, get paid next week
•  Manage your shifts and timesheets on the go – access your “My Bank” shift portal anywhere, anytime online or through your smartphone
•  Essential support when you need it – 24/7 365 days – Call us anytime
•  Multi-locational - work across neighbouring Trusts
• First choice of shifts or placements at your Trust – access before they are made available to agency
• Varied working options to suit your lifestyle – access to the Bank gives you options of ad hoc shifts or fixed term placements
• Training and development opportunities
•  Build holiday allowance for every shift you work
•  Stakeholder pension scheme available

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Developing the management of care needs through:
• Initial data collection
• Monitoring of individual service user / patient progress
• Feedback and discussion
• Producing reports and in-care reviews
• Devising a plan of care and interventions supervised by a Registered senior staff
• Leading on and directing junior to staff in providing hands-on care to service users including:
• Undertaking 1-1 engagement with service users in an honest, open and non- judgmental
• Recognising and valuing service users as individuals, acknowledging the importance of maintaining the service user’s respect and dignity at all times and ensure that the care provided respects equality and Developing care plans that reflect service user needs and relevant patient care documentation working in partnership with service users, wider MDT and friends/relatives/significant.
• Ensuring the monitoring and recording service user clinical observations are undertaken, such as Physical observations and vital signs and treating or escalating as appropriate any signs or symptoms of deterioration or that do not fulfill the personal parameters to the relevant professional for treatment.
• Promote healthy lifestyles and give health promotion advice and Implementing the principles of ‘recovery’: encouraging and supporting service users to engage with healthy lifestyles, facilitating psychosocial activities and other activities of their interest. Where appropriate contributing to psychological
• Escorting service users, as required, in line with Trust
• Facilitating the admission and discharge of service users, ensuring needs of the patient and service including relevant legislative or required documentation are:
• Advocating for service users’ needs and rights within Trust Encouraging and empowering service users to have an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programme of care.

The role will involve, but not be limited to you performing the above.

You’ll have the following qualification/experience:

Qualifications:

• Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse
• Mentorship qualification

Experience:

• Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice.
• Experience of shift co-ordination.
• Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students.

Knowledge / Skills:

• Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation.
• Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user’s needs, without close supervision.
• Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
• IT skills
• Skilled in supervision of others, and in providing critical and constructive feedback.

*Depending on the Trust, you may require variable additional certification and skills.

Who are NHS Professionals?

We specialise in putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated candidates and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, access to more shifts and a healthier work-life balance, giving more choice and control to our members.

As an equal opportunities' organisation, NHSP is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective Bank members and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership. We believe there is a strong case for the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion agenda and we strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply.

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By joining us you can look forward to a choice of flexible Bank shifts across any of our client Trusts in England, as well as the ability to develop professionally and gain experience in several wards or areas.

Disclaimer

Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 12 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Night shift
• Weekend availability

Experience:

• Mental Health Nurse: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• NMC (required)
• Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 050424-768