Registered Mental Health Nurse - Learning Disability Nurse | Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Are you looking to gain the necessary skills and experienced required to advance your career and gain a wide range of experience working with mental health and illness, learning disability and dementia? If so, this could be the job for you and your chance to work in a dynamic team, where you can actively contribute to it's growth and development.

This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic, developing service and be involved in the provision of the highest quality care to the people admitted to Croydon University Hospital.

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The Enhanced Care Team was introduced to improve the way we care for our patients requiring extra support and enhanced observations. Enhanced care for patients has a significant impact on both patient and careers experience. We offer individualized tailored care that contributes towards patient's safety and delivery of the fundamentals of care. The role of the Enhanced Care Team is to engage and support patients referred to our service with therapeutic interventions to improve their care and recovery in the hospital.

Training in Enhanced Care, Dementia, Learning Disabilities, Delirium, Conflict resolution, Mental Health and Substance misuse is available for those involved in providing the service.

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.

Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We're also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people's homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon.

Across the NHS everyone is working hard to meet growing demand and we're no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff.

If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challenge yourself and be part of an NHS Trust that's making a real difference then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you're looking for.