Bank - Mental Health Inpatient Nurse

Job overview

We are recruiting experienced Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurses to join our Temporary Staffing Team at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking to increase our pool of bank staff working within the inpatient wards across the organisation. This includes:

• Warrington and Halton
• Liverpool
• Southport
• St Helens and Knowsley

Acute mental health care is a fast paced, dynamic environment. This leads to the teams on our wards working closely together and developing strong, supportive bonds. The experience you gain whilst working on our wards is invaluable.

It`s an exciting time at Mersey Care as we continue to develop the highest quality services, supported by cutting edge innovation and research.

*This is a Bank post*

Shortlisting planned for 23 October 2024

Interviews planned for 29 October 2024

Main duties of the job

As a bank worker, you will have a zero hours contract and will have the flexibility to choose when and where you would like to work.

Our in-patient services predominately care for adults over the age of 18, in acute, PICU and LLAMS settings.

As a registered mental health nurse on our bank you will be expected to:

• Provide service users with a high quality service and one which is free from stigma, discrimination and harm.
• Be engaged with the delivery, innovation and continuous improvement of services to benefit service users.
• Provide visible and responsive leadership, setting the standard for others and act as a role model.
• Work by our Trust values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness, Enthusiasm and Support.
• Provide high quality, evidence based care for serviceusers and their carers within inpatient areas.
• Function as a registered mental health nurse assistingin assessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery focused model of care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To coordinate the care of service users carrying out assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of their care under the guidelines of the Care Programme Approach and under the supervision of the line manager.
• To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual.
• To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan
• To develop a risk management plan for service users, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately.
• To direct unqualified staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
• To participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings
• To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you have responsibility for with guidance from a supervisor.
• To communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the communication of any relevant information which has an impact on the service user’s care
• To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
• To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress, psychiatric symptoms or where English is not the first language
• To use skills gained through training and experience to give and receive information to other individuals with regards to a service users care in the reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the Trust
• To have knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
• To support services users and their carers when the Mental Health Act is being used to admit the service user to hospital. To ensure that service user rights under the Mental Health Act are effectively communicated to them and outcomes documented
• To provide and co-ordinate the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users and monitor their effectiveness.
• To take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing & Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered to