Employer: Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Surrey Hospital
Town: Guildford
Salary: £39,205 - £47,084 per annum including High Cost Area Supplement
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/03/2025 23:59
Enhanced Care Senior Mental Health Nurse
Band 6
Job Overview
The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit into a new team that will offer support to mental health patients. The team will comprise a Lead Nurse, Band 6 RMNs, and Mental Health Care Assistants who have or are working towards a care certificate. If you are interested and available, please apply today or email directly to speak to our recruitment team - we look forward to hearing from you!
This will be a 24/7 service, and staff will need to work flexibly to support the clinical areas.
Interviews for this role will be held on Saturday, 28th September at the Royal Surrey.
The role of the Band 6 RMN will be to offer support to the clinical areas. The role will include:
1. To support and advise clinical staff in the safe management of patients who present with mental health difficulties whilst in the hospital setting.
2. To be responsible for patient assessment, planning of care, implementing and supervising safe and compassionate care, and evaluating the effectiveness of care.
3. You will demonstrate leadership qualities and be open, transparent, and trustworthy. As a Trust employee, act with integrity and uphold the values and beliefs of the Trust and NMC Code of Conduct.
Main Duties of the Job
1. To provide a high standard of individualised patient care reflecting individual needs that involves relatives/carers as appropriate.
2. To be responsible for the co-ordination, assessments, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care for people with mental health problems in the inpatient setting.
3. To provide nursing care to a defined group or to individual patients.
Working for Our Organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined-up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere, and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trust's normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
To support and advise clinical staff in the safe management of patients who present with mental health difficulties whilst in the hospital setting. To be responsible for patient assessment, planning of care, implementing and supervising safe and compassionate care, and evaluating the effectiveness of care. You will demonstrate leadership qualities and be open, transparent, and trustworthy. As a Trust employee, act with integrity and uphold the values and beliefs of the Trust and NMC Code of Conduct.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NMC registered RMN or dual trained
Knowledge and Experience
* Evidence of post-registration experience
* Evidence of professional updating of knowledge
* Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy/national guidance/CQC and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
* Evidence of management of change
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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