Senior Mental Health Nurse

Job summary

Hollybank is a Mental Health Rehabilitation Services that provides support for people who have been using our secure, inpatient or community mental health services and who need help with their recovery and wellbeing.

Our team works closely with individuals to help them understand and manage their condition more effectively. We can help people develop and practice the skills that are important to them, preparing them to move back into the community.

Hollybank is part of the acute in-patient pathway team that support people to practice and learn skills for living a fulfilling and independent life.

We are a client centred service and aim to understand what is important to our clients and support them to work on the goals that they identify.

We are proud to be AIMs accredited.

Are you?

*A Registered Mental Health Nurse that has competed the preceptorship programme?

Do you have?

*Relevant post qualification experience?

*Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks

*Able to support and be a mentor other colleagues

*Ability to motivate service users

*An understanding of the importance of service user involvement in their own care and care plan

*Commitment to personalised, recovery oriented care

If yes, then we would welcome your application to the role. This is a great opportunity for someone to be part of the rehabilitation team.

If you want to find out more about what we can offer you then please contact the Clinical Manager, Gareth Williams.

Main duties of the job

The Mental Health Senior 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 as required and take responsibility for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of their nursing care needs.

As a senior nurse they will take clinical and managerial leadership of the ward environment on a regular basis, working in a way that promotes the principles of recovery to ensure individualised, safe, and effective care provision for all patients and taking the necessary management action to ensure compliance with organisational and stakeholder requirements.

They will actively contribute to a positive learning environment providing supervision and mentorship to qualified and unqualified staff including students, take a lead role for agreed elements of the ward function and participate in the recruitment, deployment, and management of staff.

They will take an active role / lead in the admission / discharge facilitation. They will include participation in the discharge facilitation and bed management rotas and take unit/site responsibility as the senior nurse on a regular basis.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hollybank

10 Lavant Drive

Havant

Hampshire

PO9 2AW

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hollybank

10 Lavant Drive

Havant

Hampshire

PO9 2AW

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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