B5 Mental Health Nurse

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT NHS); Boston; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services seeks a dedicated Mental Health Nurse to join their compassionate team. This role involves providing high-quality care to individuals with enduring mental health challenges in a supportive rehabilitation unit. You'll engage with service users, implement care plans, and contribute to their recovery journey, all while working in a dynamic environment that values professional development. With flexible working options and a commitment to staff well-being, this is an excellent opportunity for those looking to make a meaningful impact in mental health care.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Training and promotion opportunities

Support for diversity

Active staff network groups

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with NMC for mental health or learning disabilities.
• Specialised training in clinical practice is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide inpatient care for service users with serious mental illness.
• Assess, develop, and implement nursing care in collaboration with the team.
• Lead and support junior staff while participating in service development.

Skills

Therapeutic interpersonal skills

Nursing assessments

Clinical skills

Care planning

Problem-solving skills

Leadership skills

Reflective practice

Education

RMN or RNLD 1st Level Registration

Degree or equivalent

Specialised continued professional training

Job description

Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Maple Lodge

Town: Boston

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 17/01/2025 08:00

B5 Mental Health Nurse

Band 5

Job overview

Mental Health or Learning disability registered nurse NMC – inpatient mental health recovery services.

Maple Lodge is a purpose built 15 bed rehabilitation unit within the Boston area for people with enduring mental health problems and complex needs. Both informal and detained patients.

We understand that mental health can impact on the whole person and are passionate and committed to a person-centred approach to enable people we serve within our communities to move forward with positive mental health beyond their hospital admission.

You will have the opportunity to participate and maintain high quality care within the ward environment to work alongside service users to aid in their recovery and transition back to independence.

There are training opportunities available to support growth in the role. You will be expected to work shifts including weekends, nights and bank holidays over a 7 day period.

Main duties of the job

To be part of an integrated health/social care team providing inpatient care for service users suffering from serious and enduring mental illness. Offering nursing interventions in a wide variety of clinical, therapeutic and social forms with the aim of promoting mental health well-being, self-autonomy and independence.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of nursing care, in liaison with the care team in the capacity of a mental health nurse.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall.

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Practice:

1. Provide therapeutic interpersonal skills when engaging with a client.
2. Perform nursing assessments of a client’s personal needs using relevant skills and assessment tools.
3. Implement a range of clinical skills in the assessment client risk.
4. Construct client care plans and risk management plans based on their assessed needs.
5. Perform nursing interventions advocated within the clients care plan.
6. Recognise the contribution of others in the provision of client care.
7. Involve clients and/or carers in the care planning and care delivery in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs.
8. Maintain the welfare and safety of clients and protect them from any form of abuse in accordance with safeguarding guidance.
9. Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered and revise care plans as appropriate.
10. Demonstrate a knowledge of information governance and the need to protect patient confidential information.
11. Make and maintain accurate records of nursing care in accordance with Professional (NMC) guidance and Trust policy.
12. Demonstrate problem-solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues.
13. Participate in regular clinical supervision.
14. Identify nursing skills which are transferable between client groups.

Leadership:

1. Demonstrate an ability to lead, support and develop junior staff.
2. Work in partnership with multi-professional colleagues or agencies.
3. Participate in service developments which have impact on staff/services.
4. Contribute to innovation and new ways of working.
5. Take part and implement local audit and research activities where appropriate.
6. Implement risk management strategies to ensure the provision of high quality care to all clients.
7. Formulate appropriate clinical opinion based on clear rationale and understanding, national standards (NICE) and evidence-based practice.
8. Apply reflective practice to develop and improve leadership skills.
9. Maintain a professional role to model appropriate leadership behaviours within a team.

Education, Training and Personal Development:

1. Identify personal educational needs which consolidate own learning from point of registration.
2. Apply the principles of reflective practice to enhance performance and contribute to ongoing learning.
3. Identify additional knowledge and skills to perform existing and emerging role.
4. Produce a personal development plan which strengthens their competence to deliver safe nursing practice reflecting current job requirements.
5. Complete mentor training in accordance with the assessment and learning in practice standard (NMC) and fulfil the appropriate responsibilities to support learners in practice.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RMN or RNLD 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.

Experience

• Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information and barriers to effective communication whilst being considerate of client confidentiality.
• Relevant experience of working with mental health needs.
• Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
• Previous experience working as a registered mental health nurse with people with mental health problems.
• Personal experience in the delivery of physical care to others.

Skills & Competences

• Ability to work independently and collectively.
• Highly motivated and able to engage with service users and carers to improve outcomes.

As an ethical recruiter we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role you must have UK NHS experience.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.