Registered Mental Health Nurse

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services is seeking a dedicated Staff Nurse to join their dynamic team at Hellesdon Hospital. This exciting role offers the chance to utilize your clinical skills and leadership abilities to enhance patient care and support the development of junior staff. With a commitment to quality-driven mental health services, the Trust fosters an environment where you can thrive and make a real difference in the lives of individuals suffering from severe mental illness. If you are passionate about providing compassionate care and building trusting relationships, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programmes

Career progression

Starting annual leave of 27 days

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Professional nursing qualification required.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Assessing patients and delivering tailored care.
• Monitoring treatment effectiveness and patient safety.
• Developing junior staff and providing supervision.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Observation Skills

Ability to Work Unsupervised

Education

Nursing Degree or Equivalent RN (MH)

Job description

Main area: Adult community mental health. Grade Band: 5 Contract: Permanent Hours:

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Long days and Nights) Job ref: 246-CNN6810449

Site: Hellesdon Hospital Town: Norwich Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 gross per annum Salary period: Yearly Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.

Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.

We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!

We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles; please indicate in your application if this is something you require.

Job overview

Glaven Ward is looking for a Staff Nurse as we seek to support nurse-led care in our Acute Services at Hellesdon Hospital. This is a very exciting post which will allow you to use your clinical skills and leadership to help develop our nursing team and yourself to ensure we are providing excellent and compassionate care to our service users.

If you feel you have the skills to help us make a difference and have the ability to offer person-centred care while building trusting relationships to increase engagement with individuals suffering from severe mental illness, we would welcome your expression of interest.

Main duties of the job

The main duties are:

• Assessing patients and delivering care specific to needs
• Monitoring the effectiveness of treatment including medication and activities
• Developing junior staff
• Providing assurance of patient safety

We will provide you with regular clinical and management supervision with an emphasis on reflective practice. We hold a strong belief in team and individual development. We provide a full induction program and have extensive training and career development that can be accessed across our Trust.

Management

Responsible for the line management of identified members of the service. Monitor the practice of junior staff and identify any learning and development needs in respect of the clinical skills base. Maintain own and lead/supervise staff in maintaining professional, therapeutic relationships/boundaries with patients, carers, and colleagues. Provide and ensure provision of regular line management supervision and appraisals to junior members of staff.

Working for our organisation

Here at NSFT, we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly, and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us?

We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work, and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk?

The people here are warm and welcoming; you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich/ Stansted too. Our villages, towns, and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops, and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling, and affordable house prices too.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Some of the benefits you can expect:

• A comprehensive in-house & external training programmes
• Career progression
• Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more

Person specification

Professional Qualification

• Nursing Degree or Equivalent RN (MH)

Knowledge

• Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality
• Awareness of security and its impact and willingness to expand knowledge on it.

Skills

• Ability to work regularly unsupervised
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Good observation and reporting skills

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES Apart from its legal duties in relation to equality and diversity, the Trust recognises and actively promotes the benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to treating all employees with dignity and respect regardless of race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

As a part of the Disability Confident Employer Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job vacancy (outlined in the Person Specification). We encourage you to indicate your eligibility through TRAC jobs when applying.

DISCLOSURE AND BARRING SERVICE CHECK (formerly CRB)
FOR POSTS WITH DIRECT SERVICE USER CONTACT - Please be advised that due to recent changes in the DBS Service, organisations no longer receive copies of DBS Disclosures – these are sent directly to candidates only. Therefore, it will be your responsibility, if successful, to ensure that this is taken to the appointing officer as soon as you receive it.

Alternatively, if you have subscribed to the update service, we will be able to check your status once we have your authority to do so.

The Trust has now introduced a DBS Update Service which is a contractual requirement. You need to subscribe when you have applied for your DBS clearance and there is a time limit to subscribe of 19 days after receipt of your DBS disclosure. Please ensure that this is completed within the set time scale.

This update service is an annual subscription at a cost of £13 to you. This will enable the Trust to have instant online access to your DBS record, with your consent, and so will remove the need for you to have to apply for this repeat check again.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.