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Registered Mental Health Nurse | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £32,720 - £39,769 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 April 2024 |
| Location: | London, CR7 7YE |
| Company: | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6112059/334-NUR-6112059-MU |
Summary
As a Registered Nurse you provide direct personal care to service users/patients and co-ordinate the care given by colleagues.
The post holder will deliver high quality safe nursing care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council code of professional conduct.
The role includes leading the delivery of comprehensive service user assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of person-centred care in a collaborative way. The post holder will co-ordinate a first class service that includes assessment and monitoring of physical health, maintaining service users rights, supervising junior staff and students, working collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and maintaining a safe and therapeutic working environment and accurate records. You will be clinically confident in assessing mental health service users presenting in emergencies, carrying out short term interventions and making independent decisions
Band 5 nursing roles are only open only to staff with a nursing registration, obtained as a result of completing a qualification recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Clinical Skills
• Working autonomously within the parameters of the role .
• Assessing/Reviewing patients
• Undertaking activities to ensure the care of the patients are met.-
• Co-ordinating care; improving plans with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
• Providing information about care to patients and their relatives/carers.. Liaising and working positively with the Team
• Administering, and monitoring medication; monitoring service user compliance.
• Safe custody of medicines, sharps, clinical equipment, reporting all incidents.
• Developing the management of care needs:
• Directing junior staff in providing hands-on care to service users including:
• Undertaking 1-1 engagement with service users in an honest, open and non- judgmental way.
• Recognizing and valuing service users, maintaining the service user’s respect and dignity at all times
• Developing care plans that reflect service user needs and relevant documentation.
• Ensuring the monitoring and recording service user clinical observations, Promote healthy lifestyles and give health promotion advice
• Implementing the principles of ‘recovery’: encouraging service users to engage with healthy lifestyles, facilitating psychosocial activities and other activities . Where appropriate contributing to psychological interventions.
• Facilitating the admission and discharge of service users.
• Able to identify physical health deterioration.
• Working autonomously within the parameters of the role
About the location:
The Croydon area has excellent schools both in the state and private sectors. Mental health care for patients who attend CUH is delivered by the Croydon Mental Health Liaison service provided by South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM). You will be working with service users from the age of 18 - 65.
Benefits:
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
• Generous pay, pensions and leave
• Work life balance
• Career development
• Accommodation
• NHS discounts
Other benefits include:
• Counselling services
• Wellbeing events
• Long service awards
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare vouchers
• Staff restaurants
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria• Registered Adult Nurse and/or Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse
Desirable criteria• Mentorship qualification
• Successful completion of Preceptorship
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria• Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice.
• Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation
Desirable criteria• Experience of shift co-ordination.
• Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria• Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user's needs, without close supervision.
• Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
• Advocates for all individuals, particularly those with protected characteristics; promotes equality and diversity.
Desirable criteria• IT skills
• Skilled in supervision of others and in providing critical and constructive feedback
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
• Empathy for service users including individuals who have experienced mental health problems.
• Flexibility to work shift patterns across 24 hrs. 7 days a week and across all clinical areas within the Trust as required.
• Ability to fulfil all the requirements of the role (including physical)
This advert closes on Thursday 28 Mar 2024