Mental Health Nurse

Elysium Healthcare Limited; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Elysium Healthcare is seeking an experienced Mental Health Nurse to join their team in Milton Keynes. In this role, you will deliver high-quality care to service users with mental health conditions, contribute to a supportive multidisciplinary team, and enjoy numerous benefits including career development and wellbeing support.

Benefits

33 days annual leave including bank holidays and birthday off

Free meals and parking

Wellbeing support and activities

Career development and training

Pension contribution

Life Assurance

Enhanced Maternity Package

Retail discounts and special offers

Qualifications

• Experience of at least 3 years post-qualification.
• Qualified as a Mental Health Nurse (RMN).
• NMC registered to practice.

Responsibilities

• Providing high-quality and compassionate nursing care.
• Assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care.
• Mentoring and supporting team members.

Skills

Teamwork

Self-motivation

Compassion

Flexibility

High-quality care commitment

Education

Relevant nursing qualification

NMC registration

Job description

Introduction

Are you an experienced Mental Health Nurse wanting to work in an environment where kindness and teamwork is integral? Where you'll be invested in, with opportunities to develop and grow your career to achieve your goals? Then join the team atChadwick Lodgein Milton Keynesand come and experience what delivering great healthcare should feel like.

As an experienced Mental Health Nurse from the NHS or private sector in the UK, you can join a multidisciplinary team that works well together to change lives for the betteras you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society.

Your career at Elysium will be rewarding and fulfilled, where you can take pride in knowing that you've made a difference. While you're caring for service users, improving their lives and looking out for your colleagues, we'll be looking after you. With Wellbeing support and activities to support your mental health, a range of benefits that can save you money and make a difference, and development to nurture your career.

What you will be doing

As a qualified Mental Health Nurse (RMN), you will ensure service users withrange of Mental healthconditionsin thismedium and low secure servicereceive high-quality care, while also supporting your colleagues and promoting positive teamwork.

The wards are busy, with plenty to keep you engaged and motivated, and a good amount of routine and variety. Your day-to-day will include:

• Providing high-quality, effective and compassionate nursing care to service users
  
• Being responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care
• Providing mentorship and support to team members
  
• Observing, recording and reporting all service user changes, and maintaining accurate records of care provided

Skills and knowledge you will have:

• A relevant nursing qualification
• At least 3 years post qualification experience
• NMC registration
• Strong team-workingskills
• A high level of self-motivation and a flexible approach
• A positive attitude and be naturally caring and compassionate
• A commitment to high-quality care and to values and evidence-based practice

Where you will be working:

Location:Chadwick Drive (off Saxon Street), Eaglestone, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK6 5LS

You will be working at Chadwick Lodge and Eaglestone View, a medium and low secure services providing specialist treatment programmes for service users who have been detained under the Mental Health Act (1983) and have a history of offending behaviour.

The service offer a broad spectrum of evidence-based therapeutic interventions, involving service users at every stage. The hospital’s consultant-led multidisciplinary team has a wealth of clinical and research experience in forensic psychiatry. All programmes are designed to reduce the risk of re-offending and to maximise the potential and enhance the quality of life of each service users.

Chadwick Lodge secure services care for service users with complex and enduring mental illness who need to achieve stability in order to benefit from multidisciplinary interventions, helping them move on to community settings whenever possible

What you will get*:

• Annual salary of £34,358 - £39,188 (Depending on experience)
  
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (inc Bank Holidays) – plus your birthday off!
  
• Free meals and parking
  
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance.
  
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals.
  
• Pension contribution to secure your future.
  
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind.
  
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time.

There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers and much more.

*Applicants who require sponsorship for this role and are applying from outside the UK will be eligible for an alternative International Relocation Package, further details of which can be provided on application.

About your next employer:

You will be working for an established, stable and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.

Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.