Mental Health Practitioner - London, United Kingdom - Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

This is an exciting time to join Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) as a Band 5 RMN as we have seen significant investment in the provision of mental health care.

This includes three new senior leadership mental health nursing roles to steer strategic and operational improvements as well as the establishment of two new mental health nursing teams at Charing Cross and St Mary's sites.

As part of this expanding service, mental health professionals will play a key part in this organisational change, providing flexible therapeutic support to patients and acting as a resource and source of expertise to other clinicians across the hospital.

The senior leadership team will also support our staff to build on their own practice, progress their career, and enhance their expertise through robust supervision, and access training and development opportunities.

You will maintain a high standard of practice when carrying out this varied and dynamic role, including:

To deliver high quality, effective and individualised nursing care that is compassionate, caring, and in line with evidence based professional practice.

To assess care needs and develop, implement and evaluate nursing care plans without supervision

To undertake risk assessments and contribute to the reduction of vulnerable patients coming to harm

To provide clinical areas with mental health expertise

To act as a resource in caring for mental health patients providing enhanced care, support and advice

To work closely with the mental health liaison team

To support the department/ward-based nursing team in the development of mental health guidance

To work as one of the department/ward-based nursing team in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care without direct supervision

To work flexibly between clinical environments on one hospital site depending on the needs of the service

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.

Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community.

Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We welcome discussions about flexible working and encourage a range of flexible working opportunities wherever we can.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.