Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - 0 hours per week (Bank)
- Job ref
- 426-988-24DC-D
- Employer
- The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Queen Elizabeth Hospital
- Town
- Kings Lynn
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Bank Registered Mental Health Nurse
Band 6
Job overview
There is an exciting opportunity to join the Queen Elizabeth Hospital as a registered mental health nurse.
This role will see you managing a delegated caseload of mental health care services to people with mental health care needs, plus support and advising to other health care professionals.
To support aspects of service development as well as ensuring that personal appearance, practise, and manner conform to the standards and expectation of the trust.
Main duties of the job
To support the development of effective mental health care pathways within the service.
Provide the appropriate interventions to patients with mental illness (incorporating NICE guidelines) and participate in mental health promotion.
Practice autonomously in making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing, and providing a high quality of care, initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient centred.
Ensuring that all patients are given full explanation of their care pathway/treatment options and no decision is taken forward without their consent.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about this post, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications/training and professional development
Essential criteria
- Nursing Degree or equivalent, DIP OT, Clinical psychology or equivalent
- Mentorship qualification or ENB 998. Willingness to train to become Sign-off mentor
- Higher Degree or post graduate certificate
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
Desirable criteria
- Good to great management course or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
- Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
- Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
- Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages
Desirable criteria
- Experience in delivering group-based Interventions
- Experience in supporting service development
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
- Michelle Greer
- Job title
- Senior Nurse Workforce Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07977627847
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