Mental Health Nurse

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT NHS); Lincoln; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading trust in the UK as a Mental Health Nurse focusing on inpatient care. Engage with patients in a supportive role, providing essential nursing interventions to promote mental well-being in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. The position offers comprehensive training and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

NHS pension

Generous annual leave entitlement

Training and professional development

Shift enhancements for nights and weekends

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) or Learning Disability Nurse (RNLD).
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.
• Prior experience in mental health settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide daily patient care and assessments.
• Develop and implement nursing care plans.
• Monitor and record patient progress.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Interpersonal Skills

Clinical Skills

Problem Solving

Education

RMN or RNLD or RN: 1st Level Registration

Degree or equivalent

Job description

Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Castle Ward, Peter Hodgkinson Centre Town Lincoln Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/07/2025 23:59

Mental Health Nurse

Band 5

Job overview

Exciting opportunity to work in mental health services. We are looking for an empathetic and enthusiastic individual with a passion for working in acute female inpatient services.

This vital role involves interacting with the patients on a daily basis and helping them meet their daily needs. Ideal for a registered nurse looking to work in fast paced and rewarding environment with the ability to rapidly increase their knowledge base and use clinical skills.

Full mandatory training is given in addition to the potential for additional learning and professional development.

Full-time hours working on rota system. Rotational nights, weekends, and bank holiday working—all of which attract shift enhancements. Excellent rates of pay as per agenda for change, an additional package of NHS pension, and generous annual leave entitlement.

To be part of an integrated health/social care team providing inpatient care for service users suffering from serious and enduring mental illness. Offering nursing interventions in a wide variety of clinical, therapeutic and social forms with the aim of promoting mental health well being, self autonomy and independence.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of nursing care, in liaison with the care team in the capacity of a mental health nurse.

Working for our organisation

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’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Practice
Provide therapeutic interpersonal skills when engaging with a client.
Perform nursing assessments of a client’s personal needs using relevant skills and assessment tools.
Implement a range of clinical skills in the assessment client risk.
Construct client care plans and risk management plans based on their assessed needs.
Perform nursing interventions advocated within the clients care plan.
Recognise the contribution of others in the provision of client care.
Involve clients and/or carers in the care panning and care delivery in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs.
Maintain the welfare and safety of clients and protect them from any form of abuse in accordance with safeguarding guidance.
Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered and revise care plans as appropriate.
Demonstrate a knowledge of information governance and the need to protect patient confidential information.
Make and maintain accurate records of nursing care in accordance with Professional (NMC) guidance and Trust policy.
Demonstrate problem solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues.
Participate in regular clinical supervision.
Identify nursing skills which are transferable between client groups.

Leadership
Demonstrate an ability to lead, support and develop junior staff.
Work in partnership with multi-professional colleagues or agencies.
Participate in service developments which have impact on staff/services.
Contribute to innovation and new ways of working
Take part and implement local audit and research activities were appropriate.
Implement risk management strategies to ensure the provision of high quality care to all clients.
Formulate appropriate clinical opinion based on clear rationale and understanding, national standards (NICE) and evidence based practice..
Apply reflective practice to develop and improve leadership skills.
Maintain a professional role to model appropriate leadership behaviours within a team.

Practice Development and Research
Apply knowledge and understanding of existing practice development structure within the organisation.
Consider the impact and influence of their practice upon clients and others
Understand their own role and identify their unique contribution to the ongoing development of nursing practice.
Demonstrate professional standards in the delivery of their nursing practice.
Understand how nursing sits within the organisations clinical governance framework.
Challenge service development, professional and organisational boundaries as new and emerging developing practice is recognised.
Develop their practice where existing evidence and theory demonstrate new ways of working
Identify sources of evidence linked to improving client health and social care.
Demonstrate the ability to critique research base which may influence practice.
Be able to evaluate own nursing practice in line with current evidence/value based practice.
Use a variety of feedback mechanisms to improve own nursing care.

Education, Training and Personal Development
Identify personal educational needs which consolidate own learning from point of registration.
Apply the principles of reflective practice to enhance performance and contribute to ongoing learning.
Identify additional knowledge and skills to perform existing and emerging role.
Produce a personal development plan which strengthens their competence to deliver safe nursing practice reflecting current job requirements.
Complete mentor training in accordance with the assessment and learning in practice standard
(NMC) and fulfil the appropriate responsibilities to support learners in practice

Person specification

Qualifications

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

Experience

• Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilist demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information and barriers to effective communication whilst being considerate of client confidentiality
• Relevant experience of working with mental health needs
• Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health
• Previous experience working as a registered mental health nurse with people with mental health problems.
• Personal experience in the delivery of physical care to others

Skills & Competences

• Ability to work independently and collectively.
• Highly motivated and able to enage with service users and carers to improve outcomes.

As an ethical recruiter we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role you must have UK NHS experience.

The Trust reserves the right to withdraw or close a vacancy at any time during the recruitment process.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.