Staff Nurse

Whether you are newly qualified or an established Mental Health Staff Nurse we can offer you some fantastic opportunities to build upon & consolidate your learnings or help you strive towards your next career goal. Our flexible working patterns consisting of short days (early shift: 06:45-14:15 and late shift: 12:00-20:00) or long days (06:45-20:00) and nights (19:30-07:15) give colleagues options that support an improved work life balance. As an established mental health staff nurse, we are able to offer great learning opportunities to support your continued professional development. Our acute wards provide care to adults with mental health conditions such as Bipolar affective disorder, depression, and schizophrenia.You are an enthusiastic registered mental health nurse with a passion for caring for vulnerable patients. With excellent communication and people skills, a warm personality and the resilience to help us transform our patients' lives, you will have a good understanding of acute mental health treatment and legislation. Eager to share your knowledge when managing and mentoring more junior members of staff, you will be an inspirational member of our team, striving to be your very best and supporting colleagues in the delivery of compassionate, safe and structured care.Main duties of the job You will be proactive, ensuring seamless delivery across a multi-disciplinary team and be able to work without direct supervision, showing initiative and a determination to support patients and their families through creative engagement. A calming influence, you will be able to deal with difficult and distressing situations professionally. Your energy and drive will be rewarded with the support of an enthusiastic team that strives to create a warm, friendly and compassionate environment.

• You will be clinically responsible for the co-ordination and implementation of effective nursing care on a Mental Health ward. You will liaise with other Professional Teams and with those providing support services.
• Occasionally as part of your professional development plan, take charge of the ward under the supervision of more senior qualified nursing staff member/colleague.
• You will ensure that the clinical, environmental and social needs of the patient are met by assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care, seeking guidance and direction from senior nursing staff working in the unit where necessary.
• To be the best you can be, you'll access our professional clinical and leadership development to ensure you are up to date, feel confident and develop as a nurse and leader, and manage and supervise a team of junior staff.
  
  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
  
  Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites