Registered Mental Health Nurse

Job Overview

Exciting Opportunity for Registered Mental Health Nurses!

Are you ready to make a real difference in a dynamic and supportive environment? We’re currently seeking Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMNs) to join our dedicated clinical teams at Frimley Park Hospital and Wexham Park Hospital.

In this rewarding role, you'll provide expert mental health support to patients across various clinical areas. You'll be instrumental in delivering high-quality care, supporting colleagues through training and development, and promoting parity between mental and physical health within the general hospital setting.

As a Valued Member Of The Team, You'll

Offer specialist advice and support to patients experiencing acute mental health challenges.

Contribute to staff development through guidance and training.

Champion mental health awareness and well-being across the Trust.

What We’re Looking For

A qualified RMN with strong clinical and risk assessment skills.

In-depth knowledge of mental health conditions and psychosocial interventions.

A solid understanding of legal frameworks related to acute mental health care.

Someone who is proactive, adaptable, and thrives in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary setting.

If you're passionate about delivering outstanding mental health care and ready to take your career to the next level, we’d love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

• To deliver high-quality, effective, and individualised nursing care that is compassionate, caring, and aligned with evidence-based professional practice.
• To assess care needs and develop, implement, and evaluate nursing care plans without supervision.
• Maintaining a safe environment for patients.
• Collaborating across the multi-disciplinary team to ensure consistent and personalised care.
• Contributing to the daily activities and treatment programmes.
• To undertake mental health risk assessments and reduce vulnerable patients coming to harm.
• To provide clinical areas with mental health advice, support, and expertise.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Evidence of continued professional development
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Leadership course/module or qualification
• Management course or qualification
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience working as an RMN post registration, demonstrating effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Have an excellent understanding and experience in working with patients who have experienced psychological trauma, demonstrating trauma-informed care
• Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
• Experience working with patients who may be confused or present with challenging behaviour
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience working in Adult’s and Children’s mental health inpatient settings
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Understanding of relevant legislation, including the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, DOLS and other legislation applicable to the practice area
• Demonstrable knowledge of the post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field, including specialist knowledge of co-morbidity (physical and mental health) about acute and chronic conditions
• Demonstrates excellent written and presentation skills
• Can demonstrate good understanding of clinical risk assessment and management and its application in practice
• Able to work under pressure and deal with challenging situations
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Has participated in undertaking research and audit
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel cross-site; Frimley Park Hospital and Wexham Park Hospital
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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