As a Registered Mental Health Nurse, you provide direct personal care to service users/patients without direct supervision 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 (NMC) code of professional conduct.
The role includes leading the delivery of comprehensive service user assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of person-centered 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. Band 5 nursing roles are only open to staff with a nursing registration, obtained as a result of completing a qualification recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
Main duties of the job
* Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user's needs, without close supervision.
* Teaching ability.
* Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
* Approachable, self-aware, self-confident, and intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others.
* Forms very effective working relationships with colleagues.
* Advocates for all individuals, particularly those with protected characteristics, promoting equality and diversity.
* Empathy for service users, including individuals who have experienced mental health problems.
* Loyal and able to advocate for and show pride in the work area and organization, demonstrating values of trust and NHS.
* Flexibility to work shift patterns across 24 hours, 7 days a week, and across all clinical areas as required.
About us
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provides the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK, as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London, and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organizations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
Job responsibilities
1. Working autonomously within the parameters of the role, leading on implementing the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational, and spiritual care in a recovery-focused way through therapeutic engagement and activities.
2. Leading on and undertaking activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met - nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional, and social support.
3. Coordinating and evaluating collaborative patient-centred care, getting feedback and improving plans with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
4. Providing accurate information about care in an accessible format to patients and their relatives/carers.
5. Liaising and working positively with members of the multidisciplinary team and partner organizations.
6. Administering and monitoring the side effects of medication, monitoring service user compliance.
7. Ensuring the safe custody of medicines, sharps, clinical equipment, and reporting all incidents following trust policy.
8. Developing the management of care needs through initial data collection, monitoring of individual service user/patient progress, feedback and discussion, producing reports and in-care reviews, and devising a plan of care and interventions supervised by a Registered Nurse.
9. Leading on and directing junior staff in providing hands-on care to service users.
10. Implementing the principles of recovery: encouraging and supporting service users to engage with healthy lifestyles, facilitating psychosocial activities, and other activities of their interest.
11. Facilitating the admission and discharge of service users, ensuring the needs of the patient and service are met, including completing relevant legislative or required documentation.
12. Advocating for service users' needs and rights within Trust policy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Registered Adult Nurse and/or Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse.
Desirable
* Mentorship qualification.
Experience
Essential
* Experience of research-based/reflective practice.
Desirable
* Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students.
Employer details
Employer name
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Bethlehem Royal Hospital, River House
Monks Orchard Road
Beckenham London
BR3 3BX
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