Bank Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) / Bank Registered Learning Disability Nurse

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; North Kesteven; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in North Kesteven is seeking a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) or Registered Learning Disability Nurse (RNLD) to support service users through their care programs. The role involves advocating for service users, monitoring their progress, and managing complex caseloads while supervising junior staff. The Trust offers flexible working options and is committed to diverse representation within its workforce. Join a team rated outstanding for care and employee morale.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Professional development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) or Registered Learning Disability Nurse (RNLD).
• Evidence of specialized continued professional training in clinical practice.

Responsibilities

• Advocate and support service users through their care program.
• Monitor service user progress against planned objectives.
• Manage delegated caseload and supervise junior staff.

Skills

Clinical reasoning skills

Engagement with service users

Independence and teamwork

Education

1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent

Job description

Job Title

Nurse: Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Learning Disability Nurse (RMN / RNLD), Accept ongoing accountability for service users.

Responsibilities

• Act as an advocate, support service users through their care programme both physically and psychologically.
• Monitor and review service user progress where frequent concentration is required, against planned objectives and use initiative to act on results within own sphere of responsibility.
• Assist service users with personal care as needed.
• Contribute to case conferences and review.
• Undertake reviews of care programmes with service users, carers and team members.

Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation

• Carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.

Responsibilities for human resources (including training)

• Manage delegated caseload (complex cases) and supervise junior staff as required in the provision of nursing care.
• Act as a mentor in accordance with NMC standards.
• Provide ongoing work‑based staff support.
• Participate in performance review, supervision and undertake mandatory training and personal development as required of the post including competency development.

Responsibilities for information resources

• Record all self‑generated information within the service users' clinical notes and/or using the Trust's clinical information system (Maracis).

Responsibilities for research and development

• Participate in audit and research as required.

Qualifications

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

Experience

• Relevant experience of working with mental health needs.
• Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
• 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.

Skills and Competencies

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

Additional Information

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. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million‑pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services. We are leading the way with mental health transformation projects. Multi-million‑pound schemes to transform patient environments and radically redesign community services are currently underway, as part of our commitment to reshaping the future of mental healthcare.

We believe the key to high quality patient care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in the Care Quality Commission rating us as 'outstanding' for well‑led and 'good' overall, and 75% of our staff recommending us as a place to work.

We offer options for flexible working and provide development pathways and opportunities. We have a proud partnership with the University of Lincoln and the Lincoln Medical School, which has expanded our academic offerings to nurture talent across the Trust.

We are committed to ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels. We are currently under‑represented particularly at senior leadership level, so we welcome applications from women, people with disabilities, people from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, and those from the LGBT communities.

We support and celebrate diversity. We have active staff network groups for Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) staff, Lesbian Gay Bi Trans (LGBT+) staff, staff with Mental and Physical Lived Experience (MAPLE) and our dedicated staff groups for men and women. We are a Silver Standard Employer with ENEI, were in the top 100 organisations in the country within the Stonewall Index (in 2019), and have been a finalist for the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Mental Health Trust of the Year Award two years in a row.

We offer 24‑hour services within our Inpatient, Crisis and SPA teams, if you are successfully appointed to posts in these areas or others that might have specified, you will be required to work unsociable hours and shift patterns.