Bank - Mental Health Inpatient Nurse

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; St Helens; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 31,000; Part time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in St Helens is seeking experienced Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurses for flexible bank staff positions. This role emphasizes high-quality, evidence-based care for adults in a dynamic inpatient environment. Candidates must be registered nurses with a commitment to mental health practice and continuous improvement. Opportunities available across various locations including Warrington, Liverpool, and Southport.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing high-quality mental health care.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Engagement in service delivery and improvement.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality service free from stigma and discrimination.
• Deliver evidence-based care to service users.
• Assist in assessment, planning, and evaluation of care.

Skills

Mental health care

Leadership

Interpersonal communication

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

We are recruiting experienced Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurses to join our Temporary Staffing Team at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking to increase our pool of bank staff working within the inpatient wards across the organisation. This includes: Warrington and Halton; Liverpool; Southport; St Helens and Knowsley. Acute mental health care is a fast paced, dynamic environment. This leads to the teams on our wards working closely together and developing strong, supportive bonds. The experience you gain whilst working on our wards is invaluable. It`s an exciting time at Mersey Care as we continue to develop the highest quality services, supported by cutting edge innovation and research.

As a bank worker, you will have a zero hours contract and will have the flexibility to choose when and where you would like to work. Our in-patient services predominately care for adults over the age of 18, in acute, PICU and LLAMS settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide service users with a high quality service and one which is free from stigma, discrimination and harm.
• Be engaged with the delivery, innovation and continuous improvement of services to benefit service users.
• Provide visible and responsive leadership, setting the standard for others and act as a role model.
• Work by our Trust values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support.
• Provide high quality, evidence based care for service users and their carers within inpatient areas.
• Function as a registered mental health nurse assisting in assessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery focused model of care.

About Mersey Care

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We\'re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.