Bank Registered Mental Health Nurse

This is a great time to consider a role on our Nurse Bank as a Mental Health Nurse and be part of a well-established team at South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking for compassionate, caring and experienced Mental Health Nurses to provide safe, effective and trusted care to our patients. This role will be working flexibly at our main hospital site at Warwick.

This is a new role within the Trust and with the rise in Mental Health needs it is important we shape our services around the needs of our patients.

Your role will be to act as the key nurse assessing and planning nursing care requirements on a one to one basis. You will be the patient advocate, supporting family members and carers to be as involved as required.

Main duties of the job

To work according to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and relevant professional guidelines as a named nurse or key worker for a defined patient and take responsibility for:

Protecting and supporting the health of an individual patient

Assessment of care and health education needs

Development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care

To work in accordance with SWFT Nursing Strategy and contribute to achieving SWFT strategic objectives

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.