Senior Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

The Wolds is recruiting for a senior registered Mental Health Nurse (RMHN) with a minimum of 2 years experience post qualified.

Our visions and values are about working closely with our service users to live an independent life as they would like, in a time frame that is appropriate to their individual needs. We do strongly advocate taking a 'hands on' and 'doing it with them' approach.

The Wolds sits within rehabilitation but under the acute pathway and is a 16-bed, mixed-sex ward with individual rooms and en-suites. We are very much a multi-skilled and diverse team with a cracking sense of humour.

As a Senior Nurse on the Wolds, you will have a caseload of named service users and the expectation that you remain up to date with the care and treatment for all admitted onto the Wolds. As a senior nurse, you will work closely with the ward manager to ensure the safe and effective running of the ward, taking on managerial roles such as supervisions, attendance at divisional-level meetings, undertaking audits, and supporting our band 5 nurses as well as the whole of the MDT.

As the Wolds is a 24/7 service, we must always ensure safe staffing levels. The working shifts within the rehabilitation service are long days with a rotation of nights.

Main duties of the job

Demonstrate sound clinical decision-making skills that are in the interests of the client.

Provide skilled clinical supervision to others.

Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.

Identify areas of nursing practice requiring development and improvement.

Take a lead role in the implementation of change to develop nursing practice.

Distinguish between different leadership and management styles.

Choose an effective style of leadership to suit the care environment.

Supervise the leadership development of junior staff and learners.

Act in an advisory capacity in relation to clinical and professional issues for the team.

Actively contribute to the improvement of service delivery and practice development, enable team members to inform service developments.

Facilitate others to consider, reflect upon, and enhance their own nursing practice.

Monitor adherence to locally agreed policies, procedures, and clinical guidelines.

Facilitate and lead local practice development projects.

Demonstrate an ability to lead staff in service evaluation.

Identify the educational needs of junior nursing staff and learners

Integrate reflective practice into teamwork.

Demonstrate the ability to empower others in the identification of their strengths and weaknesses.

Enable others to devise personal and professional objectives that support personal development and career progression.

Mentor learners in accordance with the assessment and learning

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.