Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Band 6 RMN, providing high standards of mental health care in a dynamic environment. You'll play a crucial role in supporting patients in crisis, leading nursing teams, and enhancing care quality. Enjoy career development opportunities, flexible working, and a supportive team culture.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing initiatives

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with NMC.
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• Experience working with patients in an inpatient mental health setting.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality, effective and individualised nursing care.
• Assess care needs and develop nursing care plans.
• Provide clinical leadership to junior staff.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Nursing Assessment

Crisis Management

Education

NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse

Nationally recognised preceptorship/mentorship qualification

Job description

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

This role is an exciting and challenging opportunity for the right candidate. The post holder will provide support when someone presents to the Emergency Department or are admitted to an acute medical ward and require mental health care and support. As a Band 6 RMN, you will have a crucial role in providing and role modelling high standards of mental health care for patients admitted to our hospitals. You will be required to demonstrate excellent leadership and communication skills while providing expert care, support, and information to a wide range of patients that may present in an acute phase of a mental health crisis.

You will need to have excellent nursing assessment skills, knowledge of the legal frameworks that inform acute mental health care, an understanding of mental health diagnosis and a well-informed understanding of psychosocial interventions. You will also have a crucial role in leading and improving the quality of care and patient experience.

This post requires that you are highly motivated, professional and can be flexible in an ever-changing environment and are able communicate effectively across a multi-professional team.

Main duties of the job

You will maintain a high standard of practice when carrying out this varied and dynamic role, including:
• To deliver high quality, effective and individualised nursing care that is compassionate, caring, and in line with evidence based professional practice; and to provide clinical leadership to junior staff in the delivery of this care.
• To assess care needs and develop, implement and evaluate nursing care plans without supervision
• To undertake risk assessments and contribute to the reduction of vulnerable patients coming to harm
• To provide clinical areas with mental health expertise
• To act as a resource in caring for mental health patients providing enhanced care, support and advice
• To work closely with the mental health liaison team
• To support the enhanced care team in the development and implementation of mental health guidance
• To work as one of the department/ward-based nursing team in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care without direct supervision
• To work flexibly between clinical environments on one hospital site depending on the needs of the service
• To provide senior mental health cover out of hours in the capacity of shift co-ordinator
• To supervise junior staff and provide expert advice to clinical areas to support with the care of patients with mental health needs.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Nationally recognised preceptorship/ mentorship qualification

Desirable criteria

• Educated to degree level
• Additional qualification in clinical speciality

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable good experience at Band 5 working with patients with mental health needs
• Have an excellent understanding and experience of working with patients who have experienced psychological trauma - demonstrating trauma informed care.
• Willingness to work across departments, including A&E.
• Understand the importance of maintaining patient safety and minimising risk in accordance with Trust policy and procedure.
• Knowledge and experience of working with patients in an inpatient mental health setting.
• Knowledge and experience of commencing and downgrading enhanced observations to high risk patients.
• Experience of working with patients who may be confused or present with challenging behaviour.
• Maintaining patient safety and minimising risk in accordance with Trust policy and procedure.

Desirable criteria

• Experience working in an acute Trust
• Roster management
• Experience facilitating reflective practice and/or restorative

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Working knowledge of all relevant legislation associated with mental health care including the Mental Health Act (1983/2007), Mental Capacity Act (2005) and DOLS/LPS
• Working knowledge of implementing clinical policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of quality improvement and service development approaches
• Ability to teach staff and students.
• Knowledge of a full range of therapeutic skills and approaches.
• To promote clinical governance by complying with agreed Trust, statutory policies and clinical guidance.
• Ability to work as part of a team, to independently carry out duties and direct others as necessary.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical records in line with NMC guidelines.
• Practice safe medication administration in line with clinical expertise/scope of practice.
• Basic IT skills

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 622.2KB)
• Functional requirements (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)