Registered Nurse - BANK

Rethink Mental Illness; Derby; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading charity as a BANK Registered Nurse in Derby, where you will provide vital support to individuals affected by mental illness. You'll work as part of a dedicated team, delivering recovery-focused care and fostering independence in a CQC registered service. We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to ensuring everyone feels welcomed and supported in our initiatives.

Qualifications

• 6-12 months post registration experience with active NMC validation completed.
• Understanding of mental health issues and current legislation such as the Mental Health Act.
• Ability to deliver a range of treatments and interventions.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality recovery-focused care and interventions.
• Conduct assessments, develop, implement, and evaluate nursing care.
• Provide psychosocial interventions and assist with activities of daily living.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Flexibility

Creativity

Patient-centered care

Education

Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN)

Job description

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We are looking for an experienced and passionate BANK Registered Nurse to work as part of our teams at our Derwent and Shipley Lodge Services, in Derbyshire.

Imagine being part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity – and that’s why equity is one of our core values.

Our Derwent and Shipley Lodge Services are CQC registered nursing services, where we support individuals on the road to recovery. We provide a welcoming, clean and comfortable environment with facilities that support recovery and independence. We support people in the service to achieve their personal goals of recovery by promoting personal responsibility and self-confidence to access mainstream resources and a socially inclusive lifestyle.

How you will make a difference as a Registered Nurse:
As a Registered Nurse I work according to the Nursing & Midwifery Council code and relevant professional guidelines as a named nurse and key worker.

Under the direction of the Registered Manager/Management Team, I work as part of an integrated team delivering high quality recovery focused care and interventions to individuals who use our services.

I provide the role and function of named nurse, offering nursing interventions in a wide variety of clinical, therapeutic and social forms. I am responsible for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of nursing care, assist in providing psychosocial interventions and activities of daily living.

Some of the essential skills and experience required for this role include:

• A qualified Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN), with 6-12 months post registration experience with active NMC validation completed.
• I adhere to NMC code of conduct and professional practices and maintain registration with NMC.
• I have relevant experience of working with mental health needs with sound clinical reasoning skills.
• I have working knowledge and understanding of mental health issues and the ability to recognise the indicators of deteriorating mental health.
• I have working knowledge and understanding of current legislation, such as the Mental Health Act, DoLS and the Mental Capacity Act.
• I am able to deliver a range of treatments /interventions in a person-centered and non-judgmental manner.
• I am able to demonstrate flexibility, creativity and positive risk taking when developing support packages/care plans.
  

Who are we?
We’re Rethink Mental Illness, a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. We support thousands of people through our groups, services, policy, campaigns and advice and information. Our work supports us in delivering on our mission:“A better life for everyone severely affected by mental illness.”
It is an exciting time to join our growing charity. We are on a transformation journey, one that supports the delivery of the organisation strategy – delivering Communities that Care. Supporting employees, managers and leaders through this change is a key priority for the People function. Just like its key that we attract diverse people to come and work for us.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we’re working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer statusand are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.

We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.

Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation
We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider -and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in ouranti-racist statement.We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in ourRace Equality Action Planwhich demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. You can read more about our progress here.

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.
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