Mental Health Staff Nurse

Are you kind, caring and enthusiastic?

Do you like working with and leading people?

Are you able to plan and implement interventions of care?

Hamtun Ward at Antelope House is a 10 bedded Male inpatient ward serving the Southampton area. We promote nurses to have a powerful voice within MDT with a continuous drive for improvement by staff. There will be support and leadership guidance from a clinical nurse lead and ward manager.

Hamtun Ward have a reflective culture to enable the team to work in synergy and enhance decision making. All staff are offered bespoke training, ensuring staff have the required skills and knowledge, to provide the highest standards of care. The wards ethos focuses on staffs' wellbeing and professional development. To ensure ongoing professional development, whilst delivering the highest quality care.

Main duties of the job

Assess patients, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care and carry out nursing procedures.

Provide direct nursing care and carry out nursing procedures.

Develop and evidence risk assessment and management skills and support high risk individuals through distress.

Assess patients/clients, plan develop/implement/evaluate programmes of care and carry out nursing procedures.

Ensures use of nursing knowledge and skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patients/clients/family/health needs as well as actively promote health and wellbeing.

Evaluate clinical outcomes and reports variance to clinical pathway, protocols, or best practice guidelines.

Contributes to effective discharge planning and/or referral processes to health care providers and support agencies to meet identified health needs.

Manage care of patients/clients on a day to day basis and when required manage care of all patients/clients in the absence of senior colleagues.

To be responsible for upholding people's rights under the Mental Health Act 1983.

To supervise junior staff.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence