Main area Bank Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) / Bank Registered Learning Disability Nurse (RNLD)
Grade Band 5
Contract Bank
Hours Flexible working
Job ref 274-BankRN25-A
Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site BN Bank Nurses L00900
Town Lincolnshire - Bank
Salary per annum pro rata
Closing 16/04/2025 23:59
Bank B5 Registered Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
THIS POST IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR SPONSORSHIP
Job Title: Nurse: Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Learning Disability Nurse (RMN / RNLD)
Pay Band: 5
Reports to: Ward Manager / Senior Nurse / Bank Staffing - LPFT
Accountable to: Ward Manager
Main duties of the job
Responsibilities for direct/indirect patient care
* Accept ongoing accountability for service users.
* Act as an advocate, support service users through their care programme both physically and psychologically.
* Monitor and review service user progress where frequent concentration is required, against planned objectives and use initiative to act on results within own sphere of responsibility.
* Assist service users with personal care as need arises.
* Contribute to case conferences and review.
* Undertake reviews of care programmes with service users, carers and team members.
Responsibilities for policy and service development implementation
* Carry out safe practice in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
Responsibilities for human resources (including training)
* Manage delegated caseload (complex cases) and supervise junior staff as required in the provision of nursing care.
* Act as a mentor in accordance with NMC standards.
* Provide ongoing work-based staff support.
* Participate in performance review, supervision and undertake mandatory training and personal development as required of the post including competency development.
Responsibilities for information resources
* Record all self-generated information within the service users’ clinical notes and/or using the Trust’s clinical information system (Maracis).
Responsibilities for research and development
* Participate in audit and research as required.
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.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Qualifications:
* RMN or RNLD: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
* Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.
Experience:
* 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 Governance principles.
* Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information and barriers to effective communication whilst being considerate of client confidentiality.
Skills and Competencies:
* Sound clinical reasoning skills.
* Highly motivated and able to engage with service users and carers to improve outcomes.
* Ability to work independently and collectively.
Person specification
Qualification
* Detailed, clear and well written role application form.
We are leading the way with mental health transformation projects. Multi-million-pound schemes to transform patient environments and radically redesign community services are currently underway, as part of our commitment to reshaping the future of mental healthcare.
We believe the key to high quality patient care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in the Care Quality Commission rating us as ‘outstanding’ for well led and ‘good’ overall, and 75% of our staff recommending us as a place to work.
We offer options for flexible working and provide development pathways and opportunities.
We support and celebrate diversity. We have active staff network groups for Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) staff, Lesbian Gay Bi Trans (LGBT+) staff, staff with Mental and Physical Lived Experience (MAPLE) and our dedicated staff groups for men and women.
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.
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