Client Name: Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
Role: Band 6 Mental Health Nurse
Rates: up to £42.19 / hr
Shifts: Block bookings and ad hoc available. flexible hours, with shifts available throughout the day, night and at weekends.
Benefits:
1. Access to Care4Carers - our support service to help support your mental health and wellbeing and enable you to deliver outstanding care.
2. Competitive pay rates
3. First sight of agency nursing shifts across multiple trusts
4. Next-day payroll
5. Block bookings in your favourite locations
6. Excellent support from your own dedicated consultant
7. Revalidation support
8. 24/7/365 service - we're available when you need us
Medacs Healthcare is looking for nursing professionals who specialise in mental health to work flexible shifts at Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. Responsible for forming trusting relationships with your patients, your goal will be to help those individuals to lead happier, healthier lives. You should be a fully qualified Mental Health Nurse, who is registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
You will primarily be working with people experiencing a range of mental health illnesses including, but not limited to; depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, OCD, eating disorders, paranoia, psychosis, schizophrenia and generalised behavioural or emotional problems. It is a varied position where you will not only use traditional medical and nursing techniques to monitor patients' physical and mental health but will provide a great deal of emotional support too. You will assist people in taking medications correctly, advise on social activities and available therapies to help their wellbeing. Often you will be a shoulder to cry on and an ear to listen.
Communication and interpersonal skills will be key to your role when working with patients and their families/carers too. Often, those requiring mental health support will be vulnerable, frightened, or distressed and you will need to be confident and well-practised in providing both reassurance and encouragement. You should be empathetic, caring and have a good understanding of the full range of mental health disorders so that you can treat patients with differing needs accordingly.
General key skills
In addition to your qualifications, as a Mental Health Nurse, you will have:
9. A good understanding of mental health conditions, symptoms, and treatments
10. First-class communication skills
11. The ability to establish trusting relationships quickly
12. Strong judgement
13. The ability to make important, life-changing (and lifesaving) decisions
14. Persuasiveness
15. Empathy and understanding
16. Excellent listening skills
17. Excellent organisation and time management skills
18. Stamina and good under pressure
19. Resilience, the ability to instil some emotional distance and switch off outside of work
20. The ability to work as part of a wider team
21. A genuine passion for improving people's lives and wellbeing
Main Duties/Responsibilities
As an RMN with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, you will:
22. Playing a key role in the care and rehabilitation of mental health patients
23. Meeting patients daily, providing tailored, support plans in line with their specific diagnosis/prognosis
24. Arranging any ongoing, long-term support for after a patient leaves your care
25. Building trusting relationships with patients, putting them at ease
26. Listening and talking to patients, offering advice and reassurance
27. Working closely with other mental healthcare professionals to agree the most appropriate treatment plans for those in your care
28. Working with and advising relatives and carers on patient conditions, outlooks, treatment, and progress
29. Keeping medical records up to date
30. Regularly carrying out any standard physical health checks that may be required, such as monitoring patients' vital statistics, blood tests, etc.
31. Administering medication as appropriate
32. Talking through available therapies, support networks, social activities that may help to improve mental health and wellbeing
33. Managing workloads and shift patterns for yourself (and sometimes others)
34. Maintaining a positive attitude, even in difficult situations
35. Promoting mental health initiatives, reducing stigma associated with mental health
36. Staying up to date with mental health best practice and theory
Qualifications/Licenses/Certifications
Essential
37. Be a registered nurse.
38. At least 2 years post-graduate experience.
39. 6 months recent NHS experience within the last 3 years.
40. You will need to pass an enhanced background check.
If you think you have what it takes to be an exceptional Mental Health Nurse, we can't wait to hear from you. Apply today.