Registered Mental Health Nurse

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS mental health service provider in Greater London is seeking a Registered Nurse/ Learning Disabilities Nurse. This role involves providing direct personal care, coordinating with the Multi-Disciplinary Team to deliver comprehensive assessments, and ensuring high standards of patient-centered care. Candidates should have experience in delivering care and knowledge of medication administration. The position supports flexible working arrangements in line with organizational policies.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Access to training and research opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in providing direct personal care to patients.
• Ability to coordinate care and work collaboratively with a Multi-Disciplinary Team.
• Knowledge of medication administration and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead activities to ensure fundamentals of care are met.
• Coordinate and evaluate collaborative patient-centered care.
• Provide accessible information about care to patients and relatives.

Job description

As a Registered Nurse/ Learning Disabilities Nurse you provide direct personal care to patients, without direct supervision, and co-ordinate the care given by colleagues. The role includes leading the delivery of comprehensive service user assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of person-centered care in a collaborative way.

The post holder will co-ordinate a first-class service that includes assessment and monitoring of physical health, maintaining service users' rights, supervising junior staff and students, working collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and maintaining a safe and therapeutic working environment and accurate records.

Responsibilities

1. Leading on and undertaking activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met - nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional and social support.
2. Co-ordinating and evaluating collaborative patient-centered care; getting feedback and improving plans with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
3. Providing accurate information about care in an accessible format to patients and their relatives / carers.
4. Liaising and working positively with members of the multi- disciplinary team and partner organisations.
5. Administering, and monitoring the side-effects of, medication; monitoring service user compliance.

Currently South London and Maudsley are consulting with Nursing staff and Unions in regards to shift pattern changes for all inpatient units. A proposal has been presented in line with the Working Time Directive to move from a 3 shift model of early/late/nights to a two shift model long days/nights. This is currently in the consultation period and no fixed agreement has been reached at this point. If this proposal is to go ahead after the consultation period, this has a proposed start date of April 2026. To note the NAU provides and will continue to provide flexible working agreements in line with the organisations flexible working policy.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.