Bank Registered Mental Health/Learning Disability Nurse

TN United Kingdom; Middlesbrough; On-site; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking passionate Registered Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurses to join their innovative team in Middlesbrough. This role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your mental health skills while providing holistic, patient-centered care. As a Staff Nurse, you will be part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, ensuring the highest standards of care and support for patients. With a focus on personal and professional development, this position allows for flexible working patterns and the chance to make a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals with mental health challenges. If you are ready for a rewarding challenge, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Current professional registration with NMC as RNMH or RNLD required.
• Experience in mental health and learning disabilities care is essential.

Responsibilities

• Involved in the day-to-day running of the ward and patient care.
• Engage in discharge planning as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Skills

Mental Health Care

Learning Disability Care

Patient-Centered Care

Multi-Disciplinary Teamwork

Clinical Risk Assessment

Clinical Governance

Education

NMC Registration (RNMH or RNLD)

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Job description

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Bank Registered Mental Health/Learning Disability Nurse, Middlesbrough

Client: Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Middlesbrough, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference:

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Posted:

18.04.2025

Expiry Date:

02.06.2025

Job Description:

Job summary

Calling Registered Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurses. Are you passionate about mental health and learning disability care and ready for a new challenge? We are working differently and innovatively to optimise holistic and patient-centred care. If you have a particular interest in mental health and want to develop your mental health skills, then this role provides an exciting opportunity for you. TEWV is developing a forward-thinking nursing vision and robust defined career pathways. As an RMN, you may be responsible for the day-to-day running of the ward.

This post is only open to those candidates who already have their NMC registration in place and have successfully completed the preceptorship programme.

Main duties of the job

As a Staff Nurse on our inpatient units, you will be encouraged to become involved in the large multi-disciplinary team approach striving towards excellent patient care. You will be involved in formulation to discharge planning for patients on the ward as part of our dynamic team.

Each inpatient ward is fully equipped with activity and therapeutic spaces to enable patients to recover in a timely way so that they can be safely discharged back into their community with identified support packages.

About us

The Trust is a strongly value-based, person-centred organisation which has taken a strategic approach to continued service improvement, the modernisation of clinical roles, and the introduction of care pathways embedded within a functioning system of governance.

The most important way we will get there is by living our values all of the time. These are:

• Compassion - kind, supporting, recognising and celebrating
• Responsibility - honest, learning, ambitious
• Respect - listening, inclusive, working in partnership

As a bank Nurse, you will be able to pick up shifts as and when and be made to feel a welcome member of our team.

Date posted: 17 April 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 5

Salary: £16.88 an hour

Contract: Bank

Working pattern: Flexible working

Reference number: 346-BANK-RN-2025

Job locations: Marton Road, Middlesbrough, TS3 4AF

Job responsibilities

We will support you by offering regular supervision, training opportunities, and encourage your development within the unit.

Please see the attached job description and person spec for further information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council RNMH or RNLD (RNSC - CAMHS only) - RGN (If appropriate - Advert must indicate if the role is open to RGN nurses to apply)
• To be recognised practice assessor / mentor or work towards in an agreed timescale
• Trained Clinical Supervisor (within 6 month probationary period)
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Experience

Essential

• Working with people with mental ill health / learning disabilities
• Working in a person-centred therapeutic organisation
• Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Working in partnership with other agencies

Knowledge

Essential

• Evidence-based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
• Understanding of relevant legislation (Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act)
• Understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
• Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice
• Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
• Confident working knowledge of clinical medicines management, including administration of injections