Band 6 - Mental Health Nurse - NMUH

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust (NMUH) are searching for an experienced Band 6 Mental Health Nurse to join their highly skilled and motivated team.

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium sized District General Hospital based in Edmonton in Enfield, North London. We serve a diverse multicultural population largely from the London boroughs of Enfield and Haringey. Many of our patients live in wards that are within the 5% most deprived in the UK and a large proportion of our patients were born abroad. This makes it both a fascinating and a challenging hospital to work in. Over the last decade we have rebuilt almost all of the hospital and now have facilities that we are proud to work in. We employ over 3,500 staff, more than half of whom live locally. We encourage apprenticeships from the local community and work closely with our local Health Watch. We are primarily an emergency led hospital with more than 90% of our bed days being used for patients admitted via our emergency and ambulatory units. As well as offering everything you would expect from a major acute hospital, we have several tertiary services treating patients with HIV and Sickle Cell Disease and a large cancer and radiotherapy service. We also run our local community Sexual Health Clinics. We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

JOB SUMMARY

Successful candidates will work as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team in Horizon and larger A&E department, using their professional skill-set and calming influence to identify and support patients presenting with mental health needs; supporting the implementation and engagement of care plans set out by the psychiatric liaison team.

The RMN will work as an interface between the psychiatric liaison team and Horizon / A+E team to ensure patient’s mental health needs are interpreted into high quality care whilst in Horizon A&E and provide ongoing support with mental state reviews as well as dynamic risk assessments.

The RMN will engage directly with patients in a holistic manner and determine any clinical, environmental and social needs.

The applicants will use their specialist knowledge and skill set to identify and detail deterioration/ improvements and fluctuations in patient’s mental health and feedback to the team/s where there are significant risks that need mitigating and work with your colleagues to do so. Your energy and drive will be rewarded with the support of an enthusiastic team.

It is an integral part of the senior RMN’s role to maintain clinical competence by working in their areas providing support, guidance, leadership and clinical advice to staff. The job will also include visible inclusive leadership and engagement with patients and families, frontline staff, senior management teams, the Trust and its key stakeholders.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• The post holder will be independently and clinically responsible for the co-ordination and implementation of effective nursing care in Horizon A&E. The applicant will liaise with other professionals and with those providing support services if/when necessary.
• Provide accurate reports to liaison team, assisting them to develop plans of care and make difficult decisions in cases where patients are exhibiting complex psychosocial needs and/or challenging behaviours.
• Act as patients’ advocate to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
• Ensure that sensitive patient records are documented and stored appropriately.
• Ensures the cultural and spiritual needs of patients are recognised and accommodated within resources available.
• Undertake risk assessments for service users who are waiting in Horizon and be responsible for communicating information about the risks to all relevant services and agencies.
• To work in partnership with the user, carer, NMUH psychiatric Liaison service, and agencies and have an understanding and awareness of the differences in their values and cultures as well as priorities and objectives and how those differences can affect partnership strategies.
• Participate fully in quality assurance initiatives, with particular emphasis on a ‘patient first’ approach.
• Be able to understand local policies, practice and frameworks, keeping up to date with the national agenda.
• Take on a range of management duties at the request of and in the absence of Senior management staff.
• Initiate and participate in audit/research projects associated with the work of the service.
• Be required to guide nursing staff in the general hospital and mental health setting and non-nursing staff, both in formal and informal settings.
• Will act as a role model for all staff in the general hospital setting in providing a service for people with mental health problems.

REQUIREMENTS

• Registered Mental Health Nurse Level 1
• Educated to 1^st Degree level
• IT literate
• Mentorship qualification
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Working knowledge of all relevant legislation associated with acute mental health patient care, including MHA, CAMHS, CPA procedures, Human Rights Act, NSF, Child Protection and NHS Plan.
• Knowledge of contemporary issues in acute mental health care.
• Minimum 18 months experience at Band 5 managing mental health patients

We are so grateful for the commitment and focus of our Bank Staff, so in return we offer the following advantages:

• Access to free Bank Partners Core Skills training.
• Guaranteed line of work.
• Weekly pay.
• Competitive pay.

Apply now for this fantastic career-progressing opportunity by attaching your CV, and a member of our recruitment team will be in contact with you shortly.