Did you know that Solent NHS have a Care Home Team that work across the City of Portsmouth? You do now!

We are looking to recruit a Registered Mental Health Nurse to support the delivery of essential Mental Health support, assessment and treatment throughout our Residential and Nursing Homes in the city. You will use all your skills and knowledge within this diverse post to support patient experience, wellbeing, recovery, rehabilitation and End of Life.

As a team, we want to offer you a unique opportunity to work within a wider multidisciplinary team including Adult Social Care, Private Care Providers and General Practitioners.

We want to give you a safe environment to thrive and become the professional you want to be and are committed to your personal and professional development. We offer inhouse learning, apprenticeships and other qualification routes to allow you to progress in the direction you wish.

Main duties of the job

*To meet the needs of patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment. Care is based on comprehensive assessment, ensures continuity and is patient/client centred, culturally sensitive and evidence-based and which promotes independence.

*Provide Mental Health support to the MDT, supporting staff to have a greater understanding of patient needs.

*Supervise junior members of staff, students on placements.

*To develop and maintain a culture of service improvement which promotes quality and safety and striving to do better.

*This is in line with the requirements set out in the NMC code which require all registered nurses to:

*Prioritise people Practice effectively Preserve safety Promote professionalism and trust.

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc Nursing RMN currently registered with NMC

Desirable

• Post registration, specialist training relevant to speciality.
• Teaching Qualification, e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent.
• Practice assessor/supervisor.

Employer details

Employer name

Solent NHS Trust

Address

St Mary's Community Health Campus

Milton Road

Portsmouth

Hampshire

PO3 6AD

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