Bank Comm MH Nurse Band6 | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Dartford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in Dartford seeks Bank RMN Community Nurses to provide person-centred care in community settings. This role offers flexibility in shift patterns, emphasizing the importance of teamwork and multi-disciplinary collaboration. Applicants should be skilled Registered Mental Health Nurses with experience in assessing and engaging patients with complex mental health needs. The Trust values kindness, fairness, and open communication in delivering healthcare.

Qualifications

• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Competence in working with diverse populations.
• Proven skills in biopsychosocial formulation.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe and person-centred nursing care.
• Engage and assess patients with mental health needs.
• Support recovery-based approaches in care planning.

Skills

Engagement

Assessment skills

Negotiating skills

Conflict management

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

Bank RMN Community Nurses Band 6

Do you enjoy caring for people? Do you want the flexibility to determine your own shift pattern? Do you already have experience, but would like to broaden your clinical experience; working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a wide range of care? We are inviting passionate and committed individuals to join our Trust's Staff Bank. We are looking for motivated, skilled, and experienced Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMNs) to work in our community setting. The BANK RMN under the direction of a nurse in charge, is accountable for the provision, organisation, and direction of safe and person-centred nursing care approaches for patients. To cover shifts in various departments across Oxleas Trust where the Multi-Disciplinary Team have identified that a Registered Mental Health Nurse is required to provide care to patients with complex and enduring mental health needs.

Responsibilities

Care Co-ordinators working with people with rehabilitation needs should ensure they are competent in:

• Engagement
• Working with a biopsychosocial formulation
• Assessment skills
• Using explanatory models of illness
• Knowledge of Mental Health diagnosis
• Explaining treatment options
• Negotiating skills
• Skills for working with families of people with psychosis
• Conflict management and conflict resolution

About Oxleas

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Values

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Self-Management and Recovery

A manual of self-management programme should be developed and delivered face-to-face with service users, as part of the treatment and management. Self-management programmes should include:

• Information and advice about psychosis
• Effective use of medication
• Identifying and managing symptoms
• Accessing mental health and other support services
• Coping with stress and other problems
• What to do in a crisis
• Building a social support network
• Preventing relapse and setting personal recovery goals

Care Planning and Cultural Competence

Care Coordinators should be skilled in working with recovery-based approaches to care planning. They should be able to work flexibly and creatively with people in order to achieve their individual goals, supporting them across a range of health and social care needs, including housing, benefits and debt advice. Care Coordinators will also deliver family intervention when trained and supervised in delivery. Care Coordinators working with people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds should ensure they are competent in addressing cultural and ethnic differences in beliefs regarding biological, social and family influences on the causes of unusual mental states, treatment expectations and adherence.

Expiry

This advert closes on Monday 29 Sep 2025