Registered Mental Health Nurse - Care Home Team

Job summary

Are you passionate about making a difference to health and wellbeing on a large scale?

Do you pride yourself on providing holistic care?

Do you enjoy supporting others to give the best care possible?

If the answer is yes we have an exciting opportunity for you!

The Solent Care Home Team is looking to recruit a Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurse. To support the delivery of essential Mental Health support, assessment and treatment throughout our Portsmouth Residential and Nursing Homes. You will use all your skills and knowledge within this diverse post to support patient experience, wellbeing, recovery, rehabilitation and End of Life.

The team offers a unique opportunity to work with wider multidisciplinary team including Adult Social Care, Private Care Providers, General Practitioners and wider teams. In turn this offers a supportive learning and development environment.

If you would like to discuss the post further please reach out to hiring manager.

Carlie Barber : 07595 243370

Carmen Palimaru : 07876 230713

Main duties of the job

• To meet the needs of patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment. Care is based on comprehensive assessment, ensures continuity and is patient/client centred, culturally sensitive and evidence-based and which promotes independence.
• Provide Mental Health support to the MDT, supporting staff to have a greater understanding of patient needs.
• Supervise junior members of staff, students on placements.
• To develop and maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality and safety and striving to do better.
• This is in line with the requirements set out in the NMC code which require all registered nurses to:
• Prioritise people; Practice effectively; Preserve safety; Promote professionalism and trust.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.