Mental Health Nurse

NHS; Southampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare organization as a Mental Health Nurse in Southampton. You will provide holistic care in a supportive team environment. This role offers opportunities for personal development and career growth while ensuring the safety and well-being of service users.

Benefits

Flexible Working Options

Career Development Opportunities

Training Programs

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification required.
• Successful completion of Preceptorship.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care needs.
• Supervise, mentor and teach staff, including students.
• Coordinate patient environment on a shift basis.

Skills

Compassion

Enthusiasm

Motivation

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Preceptorship

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Mental Health Nurse

The closing date is 25 May 2025

Hamtun Ward is looking for compassionate, enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our team as a Staff Nurse, and support the team to provide holistic and person centred care to our service users. We are seeking passionate individuals who wish to provide practical, compassionate and non-judgemental care as part of a dynamic team that will support you to learn, grow, and achieve your own personal development and career goals.

Hamtun Ward is a 10 bedded Male Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit serving the Southampton area. We are committed to the ongoing development of our care to provide an excellent and collaborative service through promoting participation in activity, recovery and providing feedback of the service user experience to our team.

Our nurses need to have the initiative and autonomy to coordinate the shift, and complete the daily tasks and interventions that provide the holistic care for our patients, within the scope of their role.

We seek to be inclusive and with an ethos of team working and support of colleagues, while also supporting everyone to reach their full potential.

Main duties of the job

To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of a specific group fo service users.

To supervise, mentor and teach qualified and unqualified staff, including studetns.

To co-ordinate the patient environment on a shift by shift basis.

To assess, and manage risk, ensuring everyone's safety

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Successful completion of Preceptorship

Experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust