Registered Mental Health Nurse

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Bramhall; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health foundation in Bramhall seeks a Registered Mental Health Nurse to support individuals in secondary mental health services. The role involves promoting recovery, developing care plans, and providing interventions. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and demonstrate strong interpersonal skills. The organization offers a supportive environment committed to professional development and employee well-being, with attractive benefits including additional pay enhancements, annual leave, and a comprehensive pension scheme.

Benefits

30% additional pay for evenings and Saturdays

60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays

27 days annual leave rising with service

Excellent pension

Cycle to work scheme

Wellbeing programme

Blue Light Card Discounts

Qualifications

• Experience working with individuals in mental health services.
• Ability to demonstrate the NMC values in practice.
• Strong commitment to promoting recovery-focused interventions.

Responsibilities

• Promote positive mental and physical health.
• Support individuals in developing their recovery and care plans.
• Provide specialist mental health interventions.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Empathy

Clinical documentation

Communication

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification

Job description

Overview

To support individuals referred to secondary mental health services for assessment or ongoing care. To demonstrate the Trust values of inspiring hope, working together, to be caring and compassionate, to value and respect others/ourselves and to be open and honest. As a Registered Mental Health Nurse you will demonstrate and live the NMC values as identified in the relevant Code of Practice. Your post will include working with individuals using evidence-based interventions to promote their independence and recovery whilst maintaining high quality clinical documentation. This includes respecting individuality, values, cultures and religious diversity of clients and colleagues and thus contributing to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs.

Duty/Responsibility

• To promote positive mental and physical health to individuals under the care of the service in all situations.
• To support individuals to collaborate in the development of their recovery plans and structured care plans and treatment, working to build a strong therapeutic alliance.
• To assess, plan and review in line with requirements of the Care Act (2014) and s117 of the Mental Health Act (1983).
• To provide clinical supervision to members of the multi disciplinary team based on your clinical and professional knowledge.
• To supervise junior members of staff in their clinical risk assessment and formulation of crisis and risk planning.
• To promote recovery-focused care and interventions for individuals.
• To ensure that all interactions and documentation is person-centred in line with NHS guidance 'No decision about me, without me'.
• To co‑produce individualised recovery plans with the individuals, carer, and others identified by the Service User.
• To promote and maintain a learning culture within the team which supports the professional and effectiveness of clinical care.
• To contribute to the delivery of multidisciplinary training including the induction of new staff, students and trainees.
• To always promote awareness of, and respect for, equality, diversity and dignity in care and work in line with Trust, and professional standards.

Practice Effectively

• To demonstrate a high level of active communication skills with individuals in a variety of forums and situations.
• To utilise your highly developed interpersonal skills to facilitate effective communication. This includes identification and overcoming communication barriers such as sensory or cognitive impairment, hostile or highly emotive situations.
• To provide specialist mental health interventions in the assessment, support, and recovery of individuals with severe mental health difficulties. These include but are not limited to Mental State assessments, Social Care Assessments, physical health care monitoring, side effect profile monitoring, etc.
• To ensure that all individuals have clear and accurate information regarding their care or the care of their loved ones.
• Where required to act up in the absence of the senior practitioner.
• To seek out and participate in line management and clinical supervision.
• Ensure, as far as practicable, the full involvement of individuals and their carers in the assessment, formulation and review of their care plans.
• To maintain high standards of clinical recording ensuring that information is always accurate, appropriate and up to date.
• To comply with Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust's policies and procedures with specific focus on confidentiality, Information Governance, and professional practice.
• To maintain your personal well‑being using all available resources available to you via the Trust or professionally, including PAM assist, Occupational Health, etc.
• To comply with all health and safety legislation and the welfare of yourself and the wider Trust.

Preserve Safety

• To identify any unmet needs to support service improvement or planning to enhance individuals experiences of health services within the Trust or in the wider health economy.
• To comply with the relevant NMC codes of professional conduct, local, and national professional standards, policies and procedures.
• To adhere to the principles of Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults inline with Trust policy and local and national reporting procedures.
• With support from line managers, make safeguarding enquiries in line with Section 42 of the Care Act (2014) ensuring that safeguarding is person‑centred, proportionate, specific, and that outcome measures are achieved and risk is mitigated.
• To ensure that colleagues and junior staff are competent and compliant with Safeguarding legislation and guidance.
• To act inline with the Trust's Infection Prevention and Control policies, procedures, and best practice guidance to maintain high standards of Infection Prevention and Control (IPCC).
• To comply with all service security requirements with regarding to your own and others safety. These include lone working procedures, health and safety at work, and risk management procedures.
• To ensure the management of risk in accordance with the Trust Policies and procedures, including the investigation process in regard to Root Cause Analysis, complaints, accidents, and near miss situations via the InPhase system.

Promote Professionalism and Trust

• To uphold the Trust values and work in an environment free from the fear of harassment, discrimination, abuse, and violence.
• To promote the Trusts Anti‑racism agenda in all professional and personal interactions.
• To maintain your personal and professional duty of candour where an incident or accident has occurred.
• To develop and maintain good working relationships with all partners involved with individuals care or the wider health economy including General Practitioners, commissioners and third sector agencies.
• To promote awareness of mental health and the role of the CMHT within local services, primary care services and also within the wider community.
• To advocate on behalf of individuals under your care with regard to ensure that they are fully involved with their care and treatment.
• To exercise excellent time management, punctually, consistency and reliability within your role.
• To demonstrate empathy and compassion to individuals or their family/carers who may want to make a complaint about their care.
• To take responsibility for your own learning and professional development, making use of opportunities to expand your clinical, professional or governance skills.
• To act as an effective and empowered role model for others sharing your knowledge base and clinical skills.
• To act as a Practice Educator for students on clinical placements.
• To always act with dignity and respect in keeping with the relevant NMC and Trust guidance.
• To maintain your professional registration and to inform the Trust if there are any changes, conditions, or restrictions on practice active on your registration.
• To only use access to clinical information where required in the completion of your duties.
• To maintain clinically sensitive information under the duty of confidentially in line with GDPR and ensure that this is not communicated to anyone inside or outside without due cause (Principle of Need to know) and with the appropriate permission.

Trust Mandatory On‑going Requirements

• To undertake any other reasonable duty, when requested to do so, by an appropriate Trust manager.
• To understand and comply with all Trust policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines.
• To understand the Trust's Strategic Goals and how you can support them.
• To understand the need to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and adhere to all principles in effective safeguarding.
• To carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with Equal Opportunities, Equality and Diversity and dignity in care/work policies and principles.
• To avoid unlawful discriminatory behaviour and actions when dealing with the colleagues, services users, members of the public and all stakeholders.
• To access information, whether paper, electronic, or in any other form or medium, only which is authorised to you as part of the duties of your role.
• Not to communicate to anyone or inside or outside the NHS, information relating to patients, services users, staff, contractors or any information of a commercially sensitive nature, unless done in the normal course of carrying out the duties of the post and with appropriate permission.
• To maintain high standards of quality in corporate and clinical record keeping ensuring information is always recorded accurately, appropriately and kept up to date.
• To ensure your day to day activities embrace sustainability and reduce the impact upon the environment by minimising waste and maximising recycling; saving energy; minimising water usage and reporting electrical faults, water leakages or other environmental concerns to the facilities department or their line manager.
• Take reasonable care of the health and safety of yourself and other persons.
• To contribute to the control of risk and to report any incident, accident or near miss.

Experience Outside the NHS

We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities. We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment. Please contact our Recruitment Team for more information.

About the Trust

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations. We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond. Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options. Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity. Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

All positions within the Trust are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, for further information on the checks required please visit the NHS Employers website www.nhsemployers.org. The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.

Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer. The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we'd love to hear from you.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Applications

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when writing job applications. A candidate may utilise the help of AI when writing job application. The assessment of an application is made on its entirety and most times AI-generated content does not fully grasp the context and requirements of the job one applies for thus producing inaccurate and misleading information, especially in the supporting statement section of an application that can lack real life examples of one's achievements, success and challenges. We have added a disclaimer to our application process advising that the use of AI is monitored. GMMH reserves the right to follow up with a candidate at the interview on specific responses and those examples used in the supporting statement to explore it further.

Benefits & Pay Enhancements

• Pay Enhancements: 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years.
• Excellent pension.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Salary sacrifice car scheme.
• Wellbeing programme.
• Blue Light Card Discounts.
• fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles).