Acute Care Mental Health Nurse

Main area: Ward 12 Grade NHS AfC: Band 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Flexible working options available)

Job ref: 274-10412-AI-P

Employer: Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Pilgrim Hospital

Town: Boston

Salary: £29,970 – £36,483 Per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 01/04/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 5

Job overview

We currently have a vacancy for a full time Registered Mental Health Nurse to work within the Acute Inpatient Service. Ward 12 is a mixed sex adult acute in-patient ward.

This is an exciting opportunity for self-motivated and enthusiastic individuals to work within the Acute Care Team, supporting adults experiencing acute mental ill health within Lincolnshire. The Acute Care Service provides assessment and individualised care within the least restrictive environment, with minimal disruption to service users, their families, and carers.

We are looking for conscientious, motivated, and progressive staff who can demonstrate a commitment to providing and maintaining high standards of care. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a flexible and responsive approach are required to fulfil the role within this rewarding area of mental health.

As a trust, in the past few years we have been voted by our own staff as one of the best mental health trusts in England, achieving the best Mental Health Trust Nationally in the 2018 staff survey. We firmly believe that high quality patient care is provided by a contented workforce, which is reflected in the latest CQC report that was outstanding for well led and good overall.

For an informal discussion, or further information about the vacancy, please contact Sarah Robinson at sarah.robinson84@nhs or 01205 445166.

Main duties of the job

To be part of an integrated health/social care team providing inpatient care for service users suffering from serious and enduring mental illness. Offering nursing interventions in a wide variety of clinical, therapeutic, and social forms with the aim of promoting mental health well being, self-autonomy, and independence.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care, in liaison with the care team in the capacity of a mental health nurse.

Working for our organisation

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 2,800 staff and serving a population of over 766,000, 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, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce, 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 are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. 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 network groups, and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Practice

• Provide therapeutic interpersonal skills when engaging with a client.
• Perform nursing assessments of a client’s personal needs using relevant skills and assessment tools.
• Implement a range of clinical skills in assessing client risk.
• Construct client care plans and risk management plans based on their assessed needs.
• Perform nursing interventions advocated within the client\’s care plan.
• Recognise the contribution of others in the provision of client care.
• Involve clients and/or carers in the care planning and care delivery in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs.
• Maintain the welfare and safety of clients and protect them from any form of abuse in accordance with safeguarding guidance.
• Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered and revise care plans as appropriate.
• Demonstrate knowledge of information governance and the need to protect patient confidential information.
• Make and maintain accurate records of nursing care in accordance with Professional (NMC) guidance and Trust policy.
• Demonstrate problem-solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues.
• Participate in regular clinical supervision.
• Identify nursing skills which are transferable between client groups.

Leadership

• Demonstrate an ability to lead, support, and develop junior staff.
• Work in partnership with multi-professional colleagues or agencies.
• Participate in service developments which impact staff/services.
• Contribute to innovation and new ways of working.
• Take part and implement local audit and research activities where appropriate.
• Implement risk management strategies to ensure the provision of high-quality care to all clients.
• Formulate appropriate clinical opinions based on clear rationale and understanding, national standards (NICE), and evidence-based practice.
• Apply reflective practice to develop and improve leadership skills.
• Maintain a professional role to model appropriate leadership behaviours within a team.

Practice Development and Research

• Apply knowledge and understanding of existing practice development structure within the organisation.
• Consider the impact and influence of their practice upon clients and others.
• Understand their own role and identify their unique contribution to the ongoing development of nursing practice.
• Demonstrate professional standards in the delivery of their nursing practice.
• Understand how nursing sits within the organisation\’s clinical governance framework.
• Challenge service development, professional, and organisational boundaries as new and emerging developing practices are recognised.
• Develop their practice where existing evidence and theory demonstrate new ways of working.
• Identify sources of evidence linked to improving client health and social care.
• Demonstrate the ability to critique research bases which may influence practice.
• Evaluate own nursing practice in line with current evidence/value-based practice.
• Use a variety of feedback mechanisms to improve own nursing care.

Education, Training and Personal Development

• Identify personal educational needs which consolidate own learning from the point of registration.
• Apply the principles of reflective practice to enhance performance and contribute to ongoing learning.
• Identify additional knowledge and skills to perform existing and emerging roles.
• Produce a personal development plan which strengthens their competence to deliver safe nursing practice reflecting current job requirements.
• Complete mentor training in accordance with the assessment and learning in practice standard (NMC) and fulfil the appropriate responsibilities to support learners in practice.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RVN or RNLD or RN: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.

Experience

• Relevant experience of working with mental health needs.
• Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
• Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers, and staff, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information and barriers to effective communication whilst being considerate of client confidentiality.
• Previous experience working as a registered mental health nurse with people with mental health problems.
• Personal experience in the delivery of physical care to others.

Skills & Competences

• Sound clinical reasoning skills.
• Highly motivated and able to engage with service users and carers to improve outcomes.
• Ability to work independently and collectively.

As an ethical recruiter, we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role, you must have UK NHS experience.

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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