Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Calling all Mental Health, RCN and LD Nurses. Come and be part of our friendly and supportive team within Gosport War Memorial Hospital.
It's an exciting time to join us as we expand our nursing team, and you will have a role to play as we aspire to provide excellent patient care. You will be a registered Mental Health, RCN or LD nurse with relevant experience, who is able to demonstrate a passion for the care of patients and their families.
To support you within your role, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust have an excellent learning and development program to help further develop your clinical and leadership skills. The trust knows that supporting, developing and nurturing their staff leads to outstanding patient care. We are committed to support the development of your career and have a competency based approach to clinical training and development, which will ensure you are able to apply your newly developed skills in a safe and effective way.
All staff will be asked to work flexibly across a range of day and night shifts providing care to older people with functional mental health needs or with dementia.
Main duties of the job
The Mental Health Nurse in Inpatient Services is a core member of the ward team. They will act as a 'named nurse' for a specific group of inpatients on the ward and take responsibility for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of their nursing care needs.
The nurse will take clinical leadership of the ward environment on a shift by shift basis as required working in a way that promotes the principles of recovery to ensure individualised, safe and effective care provision for all patients. In the absence of the ward manager/deputy they will also take the necessary managerial action to ensure compliance with organisational and stakeholder requirements.
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse Mental Health
* Successful completion of preceptorship programme
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£28,407 to £34,581 a year based on full time hours.
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