Registered Mental Health Bank Nurses - Ipswich

Registered Mental Health Bank Nurses Required

Trust: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust

Locations covered: Woodlands, Heath Road, Ipswich, IP4 5PD

Band 5 – pay rates - £15.40 - £24.64

We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motived Band 5 Registered Nurses with mental health experience to work at Woodlands a mixed gender adult mental health ward based in Ipswich. We provide an age inclusive service for patients who meet our admission criteria. We offer care for patients who mental health is as its most acute and are unable to receive the appropriate level of care in the community.

Duties will include:

• Responsible for clinical assessment of a group of patients and management of a team, ensuring appropriate care is planned, implemented and evaluated, involving patients and users.
• Organisation of cross-departmental/organisational activities to support patient care pathways.
• Demonstrate technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient care management including; patient observations; equipment management and administration of agreed invasive tests/procedures.
• Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g. imparting bad news or following an unexpected event

Successful applicants will:

• Have at least 6 months hospital experience completed in the last 2 years as a Permanent, Agency or Bank General/Adult Nurse in a UK Private Hospital, UK Prison or within an NHS or UK Private Mental Health Community Setting
• Have valid NMC registration
• Knowledge and demonstration of the use of evidence based care
• Excellent communications skills
• Ability to maintain a high standard of record keeping
• Be able to work as an independent practitioner

In return NHS Professionals will offer you:

• Flexibility and control over your working life by joining the NHSP bank you’ll gain access to the best choice of available shifts
• Competitive, weekly pay
• Access to the NHSP Stakeholder Pension
• Paid Annual leave (subject to qualifying criteria)
• Training and development opportunities

NHS Professionals is the leading provider of managed flexible workforce services to the NHS with approximately 40,000 nurses, doctors, administration and clerical and other healthcare professionals signed to its bank. We help our 62 NHS Trust clients implement tactical measures to improve workforce efficiency and productivity as part of an overall workforce strategy.

Please note that you will be contacted via email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails regularly.

We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.