Mental Health Nurse - Suffolk rehabilitation and recovery service

At Suffolk Rehabilitation and Recovery Service (SRRS)we care for those with a mental illness who can find it harder to integrate back into the community. This is a mixed gender 10 bedded ward in Ipswich.we are looking for a person who is kind and compassionate to others, and is proactive in helping people reach their potential.

As a nurse you will be allocated up to three patients within your care team made up of Rehabilitation workers and a fellow nurse to ensure that their recovery goals are facilitated and work towards a meaningful discharge. This can be through helping patients to understand their medication, improving links to the community such as through jobs, education or support groups and working closely with community teams.

At SRRS we reflect the trust values of positively, respectfully and together. You will be working among a team of Psychology, Doctors, Nurses, rehabilitation workers and Occupational Therapists as well as outside agencies such as social care and advocacy to which service user input will be central.

Within this job role you will be offered training, as well as at least monthly support by your line-manager. We believe that within a team it is important that staff feel listened to, and are able to make change happen.

Main duties of the job

- primary nursing of patients including care planning with the patient and where relevant in conjunction with carers.

- Working to increase independence with patients, for example with doctors and pharmacy changing patient to stage 2 medication, meaning that under direct supervision of a nurse taking own medication before eventually keeping own medication in the safe. Another example could be budgeting work with Occupational therapy.

- taking part in multi-disciplinary meetings and preparing patients for this also before reviews take place

- Dispensing of medication,

- working within legalities of the job, checking of T2/T3 forms, reading of 132 rights, writing tribunal reports where necessary

- signposting to other services - such as advocates, drug and alcohol services, education, recovery college etc.

Facilitating groups on the ward - training will be provided for this.

Relevant assessments for nurses - such as risk assessments, physical health assessments such as MUST and Waterlow, weekly physical health observations.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.