Staff Nurse

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT NHS); Lincoln; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering mental health service as a Registered Mental Health Nurse. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide high-quality care in a supportive environment. You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team, creating personalized care plans and facilitating group sessions tailored to clients' needs. The organization is committed to a hands-on approach, ensuring clients can transition successfully into independent living. With a focus on staff morale and compassionate care, this position is perfect for those eager to make a meaningful impact in mental health services.

Qualifications

• Must have UK NHS experience and appropriate professional registration.
• Experience working with mental health needs is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide personalized care plans tailored to individual needs.
• Monitor client welfare and safety, ensuring compliance with safeguarding guidance.
• Participate in multidisciplinary teams for optimal patient outcomes.

Skills

Therapeutic interpersonal skills

Nursing assessments

Clinical skills

Care planning

Risk management

Communication skills

Education

RMN or RNLD 1st Level Registration (NMC)

Degree or equivalent

Specialized continued professional training

Job description

Main area: Adult Inpatients

Grade Band: 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours:

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available)

Job ref: 274-11281-AI

Employer: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: The Wolds, Discovery House

Town: Lincoln

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59

Interview date: 10/01/2025

Staff Nurse

Band 5

Job overview

We welcome you to be a part of a great new service that is the only one of its kind. The Wolds are seeking a band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMHN) who is committed to providing high-quality care. We are offering a permanent role to work alongside our current nursing team and be part of the multidisciplinary team that really delivers. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a new initiative that is one of its kind in the country. REABLEMENT. Our vision and values are to work closely with our patient(s) using a ‘hands-on approach’ and supporting them to a successful discharge into the community where they can live an independent life as they envision.

Main duties of the job

As a staff nurse on the Wolds, you will be allocated a caseload of named service users, as well as associate service users. There is also the expectation that you remain up to date with the care and treatment for all admitted onto the Wolds.

As a named nurse, you will be responsible for the duties this role entails, such as personalized care plans that are tailored to the individual, written with them and not for them, and relevant paperwork that helps aid recovery.

You will also have the opportunity to facilitate groups specific to our clients' needs. Medicine management, participation in MDTs, working closely with our Social Inclusion Workers for the best outcome for our patients through their reablement pathway.

As the Wolds is a 24/7 service, we have to ensure safe staffing levels at all times. The working shifts within the rehabilitation service are long days with a rotation of nights.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism, and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high-quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top-scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for full details

Provide therapeutic interpersonal skills when engaging with a client.

Perform nursing assessments of a client’s personal needs using relevant skills and assessment tools.

Implement a range of clinical skills in the assessment of client risk.

Construct client care plans and risk management plans based on their assessed needs.

Perform nursing interventions advocated within the clients' care plan.

Recognise the contribution of others in the provision of client care.

Involve clients and/or carers in the care planning and care delivery in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs.

Maintain the welfare and safety of clients and protect them from any form of abuse in accordance with safeguarding guidance.

Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered and revise care plans as appropriate.

Demonstrate knowledge of information governance and the need to protect patient confidential information.

Make and maintain accurate records of nursing care in accordance with Professional (NMC) guidance and Trust policy.

Demonstrate problem-solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues.

Participate in regular clinical supervision.

Identify nursing skills that are transferable between client groups.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RMN or RNLD 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent
• Evidence of specialized continued professional training in clinical practice.

Experience

• Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers, and staff, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information and barriers to effective communication while being considerate of client confidentiality
• Relevant experience of working with mental health needs
• Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
• Previous experience working as a registered mental health nurse with people with mental health problems.
• Personal experience in the delivery of physical care to others

As an ethical recruiter, we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role, you must have UK NHS experience.

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.