Psychosocial Nurse

West London NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the UK is seeking a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse to join its Inpatient service team. In this role, you will utilize psychosocial nursing practices to support patients in a therapeutic community aiming for their personal development. Ideal candidates will be skilled in reflective practice and group facilitation, and must possess a relevant nursing qualification. This role is crucial for integrating patients' understanding of their emotional experiences with external realities.

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered Mental Health Nurse with relevant experience.
• Ability to understand complex emotional dynamics with patients.
• Experience in facilitating groups and working autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside patients in a therapeutic community setting.
• Support patients in managing their lives outside of the hospital.
• Co-facilitate therapeutic groups alongside other nurses and patients.

Skills

Psychosocial nursing

Reflective practices

Group facilitation

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job description

Job Summary

The Cassel works with the principle of a Culture of Enquiry: questioning & developing our practice daily at the Cassel. We embrace the opinions & thoughts of all our staff to contribute to an understanding about the patients & the dynamics in the staff team. The work requires nurses to be to use their feelings to help the patient understand the impact of living & working alongside them. Nurses work by making sense & thinking about the intense feelings evoked in themselves, using the robust reflective spaces.

The work involves containing patients & their risk through providing an emotionally containing environment rather than putting them on observations or prioritising the use of pharmacological interventions & not using restraining.

The psychosocial nurses co‑facilitate groups that are facilitated by patients & nurses. The shift pattern allows opportunities to work autonomously & create "space" to get alongside the patient.

Nurses support patients manage their lives outside the hospital as patients go home during the weekends. Helping the patient is to integrate the understanding of their internal world with the external, through the containment of the hospital.

We are looking for a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse to join our Inpatient service team. Our nurses at the Cassel are known as Psychosocial Nurses, who work alongside the patients rather than doing for the patient.

About the Service

We are a NHS Tier 4 Specialist Personality Disorder Service, that offers treatment to adults with severe & complex personality & trauma related symptoms. It is recognised as a centre of excellence & specialization, offering a unique combination of psychoanalytic psychotherapy & psychosocial nursing in a therapeutic community setting, complemented by group activities.

The inpatient treatment programme comprises three main components: (1) a living & learning environment—the community; (2) Psychosocial Nursing & (3) individual & group psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The approach is relational & all aspects of the treatment are managed & facilitated through a psychodynamic understanding of relationships & the use of self.

West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broad Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation. Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024‑25 is over £500m. The Trust is rated as "Good" overall by the Care Quality Commission. Forensic services are rated as "Outstanding". The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.