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Registered Mental Health (RMN), Croydon University Hospital
The closing date is 02 September 2025
The successful candidates will be recruited substantively. You will be clinically confident in assessing mental health service users presenting in emergencies, carrying out short term interventions and making independent decisions.
Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties.
Main duties of the job
You will thrive in a fast paced environment, often working under pressure. You will possess excellent assessment, communication skills and interpersonal skills. You will work well with others and enjoy multidisciplinary work whilst maintaining the highest standard in the quality of care.
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.
About us
About the location:
The Croydon area has excellent schools both in the state and private sectors. Mental health care for patients who attend CUH is delivered by the Croydon Mental Health Liaison service provided by South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM). We are an ageless service along with the Older Adult Liaison Psychiatry service.
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you feel valued and appreciated and that is why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.
Some of our benefits are highlighted here:
* Generous pay, pensions and leave
* Work life balance
* Accommodation
* NHS discounts
Other benefits include:
* Counselling services
* Long service awards
* Cycle to work scheme
* Season ticket loan
* Staff restaurants
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
* Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice.
* Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation.
* Experience of shift co-ordination.
* Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students
Education & Qualifications
* Registered Adult Nurse and/ or registered Mental Health Nurse and/ or Learning Disabilities Nurse/ registered social worker or occupational therapist (2)
Skills and Abilities
* Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user's needs, without close supervision
* Able to carry out reviews/assessment within an A&E environment
* Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations
* Skilled in supervision of others and in providing critical and constructive feedback
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
£35,763 to £43,466 a yearper annum inclusive of HCAS
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