Band 6 Senior Mental Health Nurse – Enhanced Care
Band 6
Main area: Mental Health
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (12.5 hour shifts, days, nights and weekends)
Job ref: 196-NM12678
Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St Thomas' Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £42,471 - £50,364 p.a inc HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 02/04/2025
The enhanced care team provides specialised enhanced care to patients on the emergency floor and medical wards who require close supervision. Emergency departments have experienced an increase in patients presenting with mental health needs, and the enhanced care team is an integral part of the multidisciplinary response to this, ensuring our patients receive safe, effective care.
We are a positive and welcoming team. There are regular opportunities for education and development and a range of staff benefits within the trust's wellbeing programme.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
1. Co-ordinate the Enhanced Care team on a daily basis ensuring that enhanced care nursing assistants are appropriately allocated to patients requiring continuous observations.
2. Work collaboratively with ward teams and Mental Health Liaison Team to ensure patients receive effective mental health care, in accordance with the principles of least restriction.
3. Be responsible for the planning, provision, and review of enhanced care and will direct the enhanced care team to deliver therapeutic engagement and interventions to patients with mental health conditions or those experiencing psychological distress.
4. Provide clinical supervision to other staff, students and may undertake research, lead clinical audits in own specialist area.
5. Ensure the safety and well-being of service users, promoting dignity and human rights through the adoption of person-centered care principles.
Person specification
Qualifications
* BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
* Specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD
Experience
* Post registration experience within mental health acute admissions, PICU or forensics.
* Experience of teaching/assessing/supervising others in a clinical setting.
* Experience of co-ordinating a shift.
* Experience of working with patients with a dual diagnosis (mental health and drug/alcohol use).
* Experience of recruitment and selection of staff.
Skills
* Demonstrates specialist expertise underpinned by theory acquired through CPD.
* Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients/clients and give relevant advice/information to patients and relatives.
* Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners.
* An understanding of audit and research-based nursing practice.
* Evidence of leadership within current workplace (e.g., involvement/leading QI project).
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitably according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account the individual’s personal circumstances as well as the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the onboarding process.
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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.
Our dedicated and talented staff make it their mission to provide outstanding care for our patients.
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