Registered Mental Health Nurse

NHS; Barrow-in-Furness; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust is seeking a Registered Mental Health Nurse to join their multidisciplinary team. The role involves providing clinical leadership, ensuring effective care assessment, and promoting professional development. Candidates must hold a valid RNMH qualification and demonstrate ongoing professional development. The position offers opportunities for flexible working arrangements to support work/life balance.

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse Qualification required.
• On-going registration with the NMC is necessary.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development that supports clinical practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide nurse leadership within the multidisciplinary team.
• Exercise professional accountability and responsibility.
• Offer clinical and managerial leadership to junior staff.

Skills

Excellent communication

Listening

Decision making

Problem-solving

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse Qualification (RNMH & RNLD)

On-going registration with the NMC

Evidence of Continued Professional Development

Job description

Go back Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Registered Mental Health Nurse

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Job summary

You will be a Nurse working within a multidisciplinary team and carry out a diverse range of duties.

As a Band 5 Nurse within the team, you will be regularly supported and supervised by a nominated Band 6 Nurse Specialist, and you will be encouraged to take personal responsibility for clinical supervision and your continued professional development plan.

You will undertake a period of preceptorship overseen by a named Band 6 Nurse Specialist within your team and engage on the trusts Preceptorship programme.

You will actively promote teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence and compassion within the clinical team in accordance with the Trust values and Code of Conduct. You are required to maintain links with your professional body and provide evidence for the revalidation process.

You will provide nurse leadership within the multidisciplinary team and ensure the effective assessment, formulation, planning and monitoring of care given to service users.

Main duties of the job

You will exercise professional accountability and responsibility using skills, knowledge and expertise in changing environments, across clinical boundaries and in unfamiliar situations as outlined within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

You will be required to offer clinical and managerial leadership to junior Health Care Staff and Student Nurses as part of your role within the team. You may be required to take on tasks that require you to operate electronic staffing record systems, authorising periods of leave, sickness and absence for junior nursing staff.

You will maintain a positive and open attitude towards organisational change and service development.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse Qualification. (RNMH & RNLD)
• On-going registration with the NMC.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development that supports clinical practice.

Knowledge

• Can demonstrate an understanding and knowledge base of mental health conditions and their treatments.
• Can demonstrate a working knowledge of physical health conditions and the complications that this can cause to patients experiencing mental ill health.

Experience

• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team structure.
• Experience of assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing care needs.

Skills and abilities

• Excellent communication, listening, decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Developed clinical nursing skills with a clear ability to understand new concepts and ideas in clinical practice.
• Can provide evidence of recent continued professional development within the scope of nursing.
• Can demonstrate the ability to manage change and have an understanding and awareness of the NHS Plan.
• An ability to understand how research and Person Specification

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.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust