Mental Health Nurse

Are you kind, caring and enthusiastic?

Do you like working with and leading people?

Are you able to plan and implement interventions of care?

Trinity Ward is a 16 bedded Female Acute Inpatient Ward serving the Southampton area. We promote nurses to have a powerful voice within MDT with a continuous drive for improvement by staff. There will be support and leadership guidance from a clinical nurse lead and ward manager. Not to mention a well established and supportive team.

Trinity Ward has a reflective culture to enable the team to work in synergy and enhance decision making. All staff are offered a bespoke training, ensuring staff have the required skills and knowledge, to provide the highest standards of care. The wards ethos focuses on staffs' wellbeing and professional development. To ensure ongoing professional development, whilst delivering the highest quality care.

To help our staff thrive in their roles we will offer regular, good quality supervision, appraisals, bespoke training, and development opportunities. On the ward there will be complex case discussions and reflective practice. This will aide you in your professional development, support in decision making, and formulating care-plans for complex needs. Additionally training workshops and team 'ward huddles' will be facilitated, all with the focus to develop and support our staff.

Main duties of the job

To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of a specific

group of service users.

To supervise, mentor and teach qualified and unqualified staff, including students.

To co-ordinate the patient environment on a shift by shift basis.

To co-ordinate care for a specified group of service users.

To record all contacts with service users in case notes in line with Southern Health

NHS FT record keeping policy.

To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives, carers, visitors, staff and

others.

To ensure that all communication is within the boundaries of client confidentiality

and to seek guidance when unsure.

To communicate effectively with service users and their relatives/carers,

acknowledging barriers to understanding.

To communicate effectively within the MDT.

To ensure that any information related to a client or other personal safety is

communicated immediately to senior team members.

To lead the clinical management of a designated group of service users in

assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care.

To ensure that junior staff and students are actively engaged in patient activity.

To observe, report and record changes in the service user physical, mental health

and behaviour.

To work with the MDT in planning and delivering care.

To maintain working knowledge of legislation, policy and guidance pertaining to

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.