This is an exiting time!! We are recruiting for registered mental health nurses to support our clinical teams in the Trust.
The post holder will support patients who require specialist mental health input in the clinical areas. The post holder will be essential in promoting parity of esteem between mental and physical health in the general hospital setting and must demonstrate excellent communication skills while providing advice, support, and information to patients with acute mental health needs.
The post holder must have excellent nursing and risk assessment skills and a sound knowledge base of the legal frameworks that inform acute mental health care is essential including an understanding of mental health diagnoses and psychosocial interventions.
The post holder must be highly motivated and flexible in an ever-changing environment and participate in mental health promotion.
· To deliver high-quality, effective, and individualised nursing care that is compassionate, caring, and aligned with evidence-based professional practice.
· To assess care needs and develop, implement, and evaluate nursing care plans without supervision.
· Maintaining a safe environment for patients.
· Collaborating across the multi-disciplinary team to ensure consistent and personalised care.
· Contributing to the daily activities and treatment programmes.
· To undertake mental health risk assessments and reduce vulnerable patients coming to harm.
· To provide clinical areas with mental health advice, support, and expertise.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Jan 2025