Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurse

Oak Tree Ward at the Woodland Centre offers a dynamic and supportive environment for Band 5 nurses. The role is designed to give you a broad range of responsibilities, from hands-on clinical work such as medication rounds and wound management to strategic involvement in risk assessments and care planning with patients and carers. The emphasis on working alongside senior nurses and maintaining high standards of safety and safeguarding shows that this position is ideal for someone who wants to be part of a collaborative team while continuously improving their own practice. The focus on staff development is another great highlight. Knowing that many Band 5 nurses have been promoted to Band 6 roles and that further training is encouraged is a big plus for anyone looking to grow within the organisation. The opportunity to get involved in Quality Improvement projects means you’ll not only be part of evolving care at Oak Tree Ward but also contribute to broader improvements in service-user experiences.

Working for our organisation, Oak Tree Ward is an acute inpatient mixed ward for older adults aged 70+ with mental health conditions, located in the borough of Hillingdon. The ward provides 24-hour service 7 days a week and staff are mainly rostered to work 11.5-hour shifts day and night (break not included). Band 5 nurses work closely with the therapy and medical team to deliver a quality standard of care to patients while ensuring carers' involvement throughout patients’ clinical care. Patients are admitted with various diagnoses and band 5 nurses play an important role in providing compassionate care to aid patient recovery.

Benefits

• Development opportunities to help you progress in your career: secondment opportunities, rotations, funded courses.
• Career mapping with focus on your progression and development within the service.
• Flexible shift working hours to provide a healthy work-life balance.
• Working within a dynamic team with visibility of the Senior Management Team (Matron, Service Manager & Borough Director).
• Excellent staff benefits: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle-to-work scheme.
• Award-winning staff networks.
• Hidden Gem annual award ceremonies.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Using clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible.
• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse, while recognising your own limits and seeking help and escalating concerns when necessary.
• Escalating safety concerns and acting as effective advocates for those who use our services.
• Being open and transparent about your own practice.
• Supervising the work of others.
• Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made.
• Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement.
• Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records.
• Maintaining compliance with mandatory training requirements.
• Upholding duty of candour.

Professional registration and legal compliance

• Registered Nurse with the NMC.
• Must register with the NMC each year and adhere to NMC Code of Conduct.
• Must comply with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, etc.
• Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service may be required.

Education

• NMC Registered Nurse – Mental Health.
• Numeracy skills required for safe administration of medicines.
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development.

Experience

• Previous experience working in mental health services either as a Band 5 nurse, a student nurse, or health care assistant.
• Experience working as a RMN in older adults mental health and/or a mental health clinical setting.

Skills and Knowledge

• Ability to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take notes, update others and use handover effectively (face-to-face, telephone, written).
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records (electronic and handwritten) in line with CNWL policies.
• Care planning: assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate care plans.
• Understanding of the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Mental Health Act and their impact on work.
• Concept of quality and role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and patient experience.
• Understanding of physical health care and its effect on mental illness.
• Collaborative teamwork: communicate effectively, be kind, considerate, reliable and enthusiastic.
• Support peers to achieve objectives and deliver safe, effective care.
• Mentor, teach and support others in the team.
• Medicines management and administration.

Application and sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible. Our Agenda for Change contracts have a 13-week probationary period. If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Legal

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. CNWL NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.