Mental Health Nurses Needed!

We need passionate and experienced mental health nurse to work in a well-established team at an acute hospital in the South West England, to assist and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations.

Description:

The priority for the post holder will be to provide

• High level of nursing and observation

• Delivering a range of nursing and psychosocial interventions to help reduce the patients' distress.

• Assist and supporting general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations.

• Provide one-to-one nursing for behaviorally disturbed, distressed, or confused patients

• Offer support and advice to patients presenting with a range of undifferentiated mental health, psychological problems, and psychiatric illnesses

• Deliver a range of nursing and psychosocial interventions to individual patients and their families, as appropriate

• Assist and support general hospital colleagues in making decisions about treatment and care in complex situations

• Represent mental health services within the general hospital

Skills:

• Demonstrable experience of working in mental health setting

• Knowledge and experience of adult safeguarding procedures

• Restraint of patients using approved techniques

• Handling patient valuables and storing appropriately

• Ability to deal with emotional and distressing situations

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Respects the privacy and dignity of individual

• Ability to manage demanding situations

• Ability to cope with exposure to aggressive behaviour

• The ability to plan own workload

• To have knowledge of Mental Health presentations and appropriate interventions.

• NMC Code of Conduct.

• Knowledge of risk management and how to plan care to account for risk.

To apply to this role please reply with your updated CV and the job reference number - BS/10171/RMN2