Job summary
- Main area
- Ellis Ward
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 274-11003-AI
- Employer
- Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ellis Ward
- Town
- Lincoln
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Registered Mental Health Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
New, innovative career opportunity with a multi-disciplinary approach to nursing!
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is always looking for fresh ways to deliver the highest standards of care for our Service Users and our Acute Male Inpatient Ward in Lincoln is offering an innovative career opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Nurse.
Ellis Ward is 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 staff and be part of the multi-disciplinary team that really delivers. This is a unique opportunity and you’ll be ambitious to take a multidisciplinary approach to delivering care to our inpatients. Do you feel you could meet our patient's expectations? Do you want to develop your skills, with the backing of a well-developed team and make a difference to the recovery of our patients? Are you seeking an opportunity to join a forward thinking Trust, great career opportunities, excellent training, where you can be challenged but rewarded and provide the standard of care to really make a difference every day – If the answer is yes, we want you to join our team. Ellis Ward is the only male acute ward within the Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. It is an 18 bedded male only acute ward with an additional one bed allocated for emergency admission.
Main duties of the job
The team is responsible for the identification, assessment, care planning, implementation and review of the needs of service users. The nursing team works in partnership with carers, other members of the multi disciplinary team and community agencies. work supporting Service Users who are under the care of the team due to an acute episode of illness.
Working closely with those service users who are acutely mentally unwell and have a wide range of diagnosis. Inpatient services is a large sector and the nursing team work flexible hours and across all areas of inpatient services. It is expected that at times you may need to be redeployed to others areas to assist them in the caring of service users.
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. We’re really proud of this!
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification or full description of duties.
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 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 panning 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 a 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 which are transferable between client groups.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN or RNLD 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilist demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information and barriers to effective communication whilst 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 Government principles.
Desirable criteria
- 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
Skills & Competences
Essential criteria
- Ability to work independently and collectively.
- Highly motivated and able to enage with service users and carers to improve outcomes.
- Sound clinical reasoning skills.
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Edmund Uweh
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01522 573543
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Welton House
Lime Kiln Way
Lincoln
LN2 4WH
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