Enhanced Care Mental Health Nurse (Band 5)

Ashford & St Peter's Hospitals are expanding their Enhanced Therapeutic and Observation Care Service (ETOC) and are recruiting for Enhanced Care Mental Health Nurses (Band 5). Reporting to the Enhanced Care Lead successful candidates will form part of flexible rota to provide a high standard of individualised direct patient care for those requiring an enhanced care plan. Under the supervision and guidance of the ETOC leads and Senior Mental Health Nurses successful applicants will work closely with the relevant specialist teams such as Psychiatric Liaison Team, ward/unit teams and wider MDT to deliver direct patient care in a variety of settings across the Trust, including Urgent Care, Older Person's Care and Paediatrics. Applicants will need to have current NMC registration, and experience in an acute mental health setting,

• Providing enhanced Therapeutic observations and care for patients requiring a higher level of intervention, supervision, and support (including continuous, within eyesight or within arm's length observations, bay watch or cohorting).
• Planning, implementing and assessing direct patient for a variety of different patients .This may be due to the patient being at risk of either injury or harm to themselves (for example, due to a fall, self-harm, deteriorating mental health condition, emotional dysregulation or behavioural disturbances, dementia, substance misuse, delirium andabsconding) or to other patients or staff (for example, physical violence, damage to property or equipment).
• To be flexible and adaptable to work across different clinical settings depending on needs of service
  
  Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey. We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care. We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• On-site Nurseries
• On-site staff cafes
• On-site parking
• Support in career development
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics