Location: Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire & surrounding areas

Job Type: Full Time/Part Time/Contract

Pay Rates: TBA

Job Number: JB010

 

Requirements

• No experience required as full training provided. 

• Professional

• Courteous and calm 

• Caring, empathetic and proactive 

• Good written skills with ability to record information correctly

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Job Description

Mental health nurses work in a wide range of settings, including hospitals and people's homes as well as various other mental health institutions and rehabilitation centres.

Their main duties include the supporting of patients with issues ranging from anxiety and depression to personality and eating disorders.

They may specialise in working with a particular group, for example young people or offenders.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

• assessing and planning nursing care requirements

• organising workloads

• visiting patients at home

• building relationships with, reassuring, and listening to and talking to patients

• combating stigma and helping patients and their families manage it

• administering medication

• agreeing and reviewing care plans and monitoring progress

• giving advice and arranging support for patients, relatives, and carers

• liaising with doctors, social workers, and other professionals

• assessing treatment success at case conferences and meetings

• writing and updating patient records

• encouraging patients to take part in therapeutic activities such as art and role play

Shift work or on-call rotas can sometimes be part of the job.

Typical employers of mental health nurses

• The NHS

• General, psychiatric and secure hospitals

• Residential and nursing homes

• Community and rehabilitation units

• Special units within prisons

A mental health nurse working in a hospital could be based in a psychiatric intensive care unit, psychiatric ward, outpatients unit or specialist unit focused on a particular issue, such as eating disorders.

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Benefits

• Competitive rates of pay

• Flexible working hours

• Career progression and training opportunities

• Staff incentive schemes such as Refer a friend

• Employee of the month awards

• Employee welfare and well-being initiatives