Registered Mental Health Nurse Inpatient Older People's Services

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Hull is seeking a Registered Mental Health Nurse to join their inpatient services for older people. The role involves assessing patient needs, planning care, and delivering holistic interventions in a supportive team environment. Candidates should hold NMC registration and demonstrate experience in clinical practice and mentorship. This position promises professional growth and a commitment to staff development, ensuring that all team members receive ongoing training and support.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience with preceptorship and mentorship for newly qualified nurses.
• Continuing professional development relevant to clinical practice.
• Ability to demonstrate specialist practice skills.

Responsibilities

• Plan care and manage workloads for patients.
• Assess the needs of patients and their families.
• Deliver holistic healthcare interventions.

Skills

Ethical values

Leadership skills

Working knowledge of Trust policies

Education

Part III or 13 of NMC live register

Degree or postgraduate qualification

Job description

Registered Mental Health Nurse Inpatient Older People's Services

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Registered Nurse to join a progressive forward thinking, recovery focused and trauma informed inpatient team across the older people's services inpatient wards.

The team is comprised of medical staff including consultant psychiatrist and junior doctors and trainees, Nursing staff both registered and non-registered, Specialist Occupational Therapist and therapy team including activity coordinators.

As a team we are consistently focused on the provision of quality care which is evidence based and as such actively support staff development through provision of formal and informal training to ensure that our staff are afforded the skills required to effectively and efficiently to support recovery.

The service provides 24-hour care and there is an expectation of working across the shift patterns including weekends and bank holidays.

As a registered nurse, you will be inducted across all areas of the hospital and there will be times where you will work across the wards due to clinical acuity in that area or staffing shortages.

Main duties of the job

• To plan care for people accessing our service e.g., organising appointments, treatments, interventions, care programme approach (CPA) reviews
• Responsible for managing and prioritising own workload, balancing the needs of patients and service requirements/competing priorities
• To assess the needs of people accessing our service and their carers based on the analysis of a range of facts or situations. Interventions will be planned on the assessment information and the interpretation of this e.g. Mental Health assessment/risk assessment
• To contribute to assessment and management plan for people accessing our service with high risk clinical needs to ensure safety of these people, carers, staff and the general public
• Develops and maintains the person's control over decision making, assess the person's commitment to the jointly determined plan of care, and fosters personal responsibility for health
• Deliver care interventions and nursing advice in a variety of settings, that promote patient flexibility and choice, and which are sensitive to cultural preference.
• To provide a holistic review of need considering physical health co morbidity.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire.Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

Find out more and search live jobs.

Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• A broad understanding of relevant policy, legislation drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
• An understanding of relevant clinical practice/standards within identified clinical area
• Full understanding of relevant policy, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. NSF, Social Inclusion
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity
• Awareness of leadership/management skills and qualities
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures

Experience

• Willingness to undertake and complete preceptorship; facilitating the transition for newly qualified nurse booklet and core competency development programme
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care
• Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development

Qualifications

• Part III or 13 of NMC live register
• Willingness to undertake mentorship training and responsibilities
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
• Evidence of current CPD/formal qualifications at an advanced level e.g. degree or post graduate level or equivalent knowledge/experiential learning

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.