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Job summary

Main area
Maple Lodge
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
2274-11284-AI
Employer
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Maple Lodge
Town
Boston
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/01/2025 08:00

Employer heading

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

B5 Mental Health Nurse

Band 5

Job overview

Mental Health or Learning disability registered nurse NMC –inpatient mental health recovery services.

Maple Lodge is a purpose built 15 bed rehabilitation unit within the Boston area for people with enduring mental health problems and complex needs. Both informal and detained patients.

We Understand that mental health can impact on the whole person and are passionate and committed to that person centred approach to enable people we serve within our communities to move forward with positive mental health beyond their hospital admission.Ìý

We support people recover to their optimum following a period of mental ill health, we support individuals to improve their quality of life. We work with people to manage their long-term mental health conditions to enable them to live well in their communities.

You will have the opportunity to participate and maintain high quality care within the ward environment to work alongside service users to aid in their recovery and transition back to independence.

We provide intervention for both men and women with severe and enduring mental ill-health in an open environment within the community to support their ongoing recovery and social integration/ inclusion needs.

There are training opportunities available to support growth in the role. You will be expected to work shifts including weekends, nights and bank holidays over a 7 day period

Main duties of the job

To be part of an integrated health/social care team providing inpatient care for service users suffering from serious and enduring mental illness. Offering nursing interventions in a wide variety of clinical, therapeutic and social forms with the aim of promoting mental health well being, self autonomy and independence.

The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of nursing care, in liaison with the care team in the capacity of a mental health nurse.

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Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Practice
Provide therapeutic interpersonal skills when engaging with a client.
Perform nursing assessments of a client’s personal needs using relevant skills and assessment tools.
Implement a range of clinical skills in the assessment client risk.
Construct client care plans and risk management plans based on their assessed needs.
Perform nursing interventions advocated within the clients care plan.
Recognise the contribution of others in the provision of client care.
Involve clients and/or carers in the care panning and care delivery in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs.
Maintain the welfare and safety of clients and protect them from any form of abuse in accordance with safeguarding guidance.
Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered and revise care plans as appropriate.
Demonstrate a knowledge of information governance and the need to protect patient confidential information.
Make and maintain accurate records of nursing care in accordance with Professional (NMC) guidance and Trust policy.
Demonstrate problem solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues.
Participate in regular clinical supervision.
Identify nursing skills which are transferable between client groups.

Leadership
Demonstrate an ability to lead, support and develop junior staff.
Work in partnership with multi-professional colleagues or agencies.
Participate in service developments which have impact on staff/services.
Contribute to innovation and new ways of workingÌý
Take part and implement local audit and research activities were appropriate.
Implement risk management strategies to ensure the provision of high quality care to all clients.
Formulate appropriate clinical opinion based on clear rationale and understanding, national standards (NICE) and evidence based practice..
Apply reflective practice to develop and improve leadership skills.
Maintain a professional role to model appropriate leadership behaviours within a team.

Practice Development and Research
Apply knowledge and understanding of existing practice development structure within the organisation.
Consider the impact and influence of their practice upon clients and others
Understand their own role and identify their unique contribution to the ongoing development of nursing practice.
Demonstrate professional standards in the delivery of their nursing practice.
Understand how nursing sits within the organisations clinical governance framework.
Challenge service development, professional and organisational boundaries as new and emerging developing practice is recognised.
Develop their practice Ìýwhere existing evidence and theory demonstrate new ways of working
Identify sources of evidence linked to improving client health and social care.
Demonstrate the ability to critique research base which may influence practice.
Be able to evaluate own nursing practice in line with current evidence/value based practice.
Use a variety of feedback mechanisms to improve own nursing care.

Education, Training and Personal Development
Identify personal educational needs which consolidate own learning from point of registration.
Apply the principles of reflective practice to enhance performance and contribute to ongoing learning.
Identify additional knowledge and skills to perform existing and emerging role.
Produce a personal development plan which strengthens their competence to deliver safe nursing practice reflecting current job requirements.
Complete mentor training in accordance with the assessment and learning in practice standardÌý
(NMC) and fulfil the appropriate responsibilities to support learners in practice

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • RMN or RNLD 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent
  • Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilist demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information and barriers to effective communication whilst being considerate of client confidentiality
  • Relevant experience of working with mental health needs
  • Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience working as a registered mental health nurse with people with mental health problems.
  • Personal experience in the delivery of physical care to others

Skills & Competences

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work independently and collectively.
  • Highly motivated and able to enage with service users and carers to improve outcomes.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Sunflower Hidden DisabilitiesTimewise-Flex Positive EmployerVeteran AwareMenopause Friendly EmployerWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.NHS Rainbow badgeAccessAbleStonewall Gold 2022Carer Confident -AccomplishedNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkOne Workforce Lincolnshire ICSPastoral Care Quality AwardStonewall Top 100 2024Stonewall Bronze Award 2024

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Melanie Hutchinson
Job title
Ward Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01205 354900

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Welton House
Lime Kiln Way
Lincoln
LN2 4WH