Registered Mental Health Nurse

Cnwlnhshealthcharity; Greater London; On-site; GBP 28,000 - GBP 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in Greater London is seeking a qualified Band 5 Nurse to join the team at St Charles Hospital. The successful candidate will provide quality care in a multi-disciplinary setting focused on mental health. Responsibilities include assessing patient needs, supervising staff, and engaging in quality improvement initiatives. This role offers excellent career development opportunities, flexible shift patterns, and competitive benefits, ensuring a supportive and dynamic work environment.

Benefits

Flexible shift working hours

Development opportunities

Excellent staff benefits

Qualifications

• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
• Knowledge of medication rounds and safe drug administration.
• Experience in Acute Mental Health.

Responsibilities

• Using clinical judgement and risk assessments to ensure safety.
• Supervising the work of junior staff.
• Participating in Quality Improvement projects.

Skills

Communication skills

Caring for patients with mental health issues

Teamwork

Clinical judgement

Empathy

Education

Registered Nurse Mental Health

Mentorship or equivalent

Completed preceptorship programme

Job description

Job overview

Due to the nature of the service and the need to respect the privacy and dignity of service users, this role is restricted to male applicants under Schedule 9, Part 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

An exciting opportunity has opened up for you to join our ward at St Charles Hospital. At CNWL we are committed to provide quality standard of care.

Through our training and development opportunities, many of our Band 5 Nurses have been promoted to Band 6 roles, and we are also supporting Nurses to complete further training to develop their careers. We are committed to promoting staff development and retention and will offer you these same opportunities.

Description of the Service

Ganges Ward is an acute inpatient mixed ward for adults aged 18-65 with mental health and learning difficulties located in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea. The ward provides 24 hour service, 7 days a week and staff are mainly rostered to work 11.5 hours shifts day and night (break not included). Band 5 nurses work closely with the therapy team to deliver quality standard of care to patients while ensuring carers involvement throughout patients’ clinical care. Patients are admitted with various diagnoses and band 5 nurses play an important role in providing compassionate care to aid patient on their journey of recovery.

Main duties of the job

You will be a nurse working within a multi-disciplinary team and carry out a diverse range of duties. As a Band 5 Nurse within the team you will be regularly supported and supervised by a nominated Band 6 Nurse Specialist and you will be encouraged to take personal responsibility for clinical supervision and your continued professional development plan.

You will exercise professional accountability and responsibility using skills, knowledge and expertise in changing environments, across clinical boundaries and in unfamiliar situations as outlined within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

Working for our organisation

All our wards are currently engaging in Quality Improvement projects as we continually seek to improve service-user experiences and provide high quality outcomes. You will have the opportunity to engage in these projects and be supported to identify new ones as we continue to evolve.

In return you will be offered:

• Development opportunities to help you progress in your career, i.e. secondment opportunities, rotations, funded courses
• Career mapping with focus on your progression and development within the service
• Flexible shift working hours to provide a healthy work-life balance
• Working within a dynamic team with visibility of the Senior Management Team (Matron, Service Manager & Borough Director)
• Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme.
• Award-winning Staff Networks
• Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Using their clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible
• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalate concerns when necessary
• Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
• Being open and transparent about their own practice
• Supervising the work of others
• Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made
• Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement
• Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements

The NMC plays an important role in safeguarding the public by regulating the work of nurses and all nurses, including Band 5 nurses, are expected to register with the NMC each year and adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct.

Clinical Outcomes

Band 5 nurses contribute to the effectiveness of services by:

• Providing skilled, evidence-based nursing care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures
• Working with patients and families in all stages of the care planning process including assessing risks and needs
• Acting as patient advocates in the multi-disciplinary team and overseeing the work of others to ensure that they are also responding to the needs of patients and providing clinically effective care
• Working as autonomous practitioners and taking responsibility for the care they give to patients but within their own limits of competency and confidence
• Contributing to creating and maintaining high performing teams by:
• Communicating well with all members of the team
• Understanding their role in the team and how they help the team achieve its objectives
• Reflecting on their own practice regularly and encouraging the whole team to reflect on their practices in handovers and team meetings
• Identifying how care could be improved

Band 5 nurses contribute to the people using our services feeling respected and empowered to make decisions about their health and wellbeing by:

• Working in partnership with patients and their families and carers
• Gaining consent and, as far as possible, involving people in all decision making
• Signposting patients and carers to supportive services e.g. the courses provided by the Recovery and Wellbeing College or services provided by the local authority or the voluntary sector
• Reassuring people by being professional, responsive, knowledgeable and confident
• Responding to complaints or concerns effectively and quickly in line with the Trust policy

Supporting yourself and others

Engaged staff are more productive and Band 5 nurses play a role in engaging in other staff members in the Trust and the work we do by:

• Providing supervision and annual appraisals to other staff which helps those staff reflect on their work, understand their objectives and monitors their progress towards achieving them
• Participating constructively in their own supervision and annual appraisal processes
• Using continuing professional development funds to consolidate or improve clinical skills and to gain mentorship skills so they can support student nurses

Person specification

Education

• Registered Nurse Mental Health
• Mentorship or equivalent
• To have completed preceptorship programme
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care & act accordingly if untoward changes occur
• Keeping accurate records
• Knowledge of medication rounds and the safe administration of drugs
• Practical experience of providing high quality care and exceeding expectations
• Experience in Acute Mental Health
• Experience of facilitating group work
• Experience of managing other staff

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Able to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy using good communication skills (colleagues and service users)
• Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
• Use of initiative under minimal supervision
• To have an understanding of the needs of people with mental health problems
• Able to provide supervision & support to junior staff & students
• Ability to prioritise workload
• To have an understanding of implementing person centred care
• To be able to participate in and provide management and clinical supervision
• Experience in taking charge of a ward

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

• Up to date knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and amendments
• Knowledge of the NMC code of conduct
• A working knowledge of the Care Programme Approach Framework
• Knowledge of new developments in nursing
• A working knowledge of Risk assessment and management
• Current developments in mental health care and nursing practice
• Ability to treat service users with respect & dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach, which considers the needs of the whole person
• Understanding of clinical governance and how this impacts on practice

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

• Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system
• Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period
• If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system

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

Name Elmira Charles Job title Ward Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0203 9277970

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