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Staff Nurse - Mental health
The closing date is 07 July 2025
We are looking for an enthusiastic Registered Mental Health Nurses to join the Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP). The vacancy is for our functional mental health ward (Ward 21).
We are very passionate about delivering high quality person centred care for our patients and providing support for carers/relatives.
Interested candidates are welcome to visit the service prior to interview, please see details for vacancy contact to arrange.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
* Deliver safe and high quality care to patients.
* Named nurse for group of patients.
* Participate in ward rounds, multidisciplinary team meetings and work as a member of the MDT.
* Administer medications.
* Risk assess, care plan and evaluate care.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Job responsibilities
* To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the ward team under the direction of the Ward Manager.
* To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of nursing services in the ward/dept in the absence of senior staff on a regular basis.
* To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code .
* To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
* To provide nursing care to a caseload of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi disciplinary team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* 1 st Level live NMC Registered Mental Nurse
* Nurse o Registered Mentor. Mentorship qualification of relevant qualification (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period)
* PP126/7
* D32/33
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.
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