About this role
Job summary
Hollybank is a 15-bedded Adult Mental Health rehabilitation unit, located in Havant, providing compassionate, holistic care for individuals with enduring mental health conditions and complex needs. We operate 24 hours a day, supporting patients through their recovery journey and helping them transition back into the community.
We are seeking skilled and enthusiastic Registered Mental Health Nurses to join our small, friendly, and dedicated team. This is a rewarding role where you can make a real difference by delivering responsive, recovery-focused care whilst building strong therapeutic relationships with patients.
Inclusive of nights shifts, earlies, lates, and weekends.
Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team.
Support patients in their rehabilitation journey.
Be a primary nurse for your named patients and provide evidenced-based nursing care with recovery-focused outcomes.
Support patients to identify and work on their rehabilitation goals.
A current NMC registration.
Excellent communication skills.
A compassionate approach and a passion for supporting patients through acute episodes of distress.
Be part of a supportive and collaborative team.
Opportunities for professional development and training.
Make a meaningful impact on patient recovery and community reintegration.
Full and part time posts are available
Main duties of the job
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of a specific
group of service users.
To supervise, mentor and teach qualified and unqualified staff, including students.
To co-ordinate the patient environment on a shift by shift basis.
To co-ordinate care for a specified group of service users.
To lead the clinical management of a designated group of service users in
assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care.
To ensure that junior staff and students are actively engaged in patient activity.
To observe, report and record changes in the service user physical, mental health
and behaviour.
To work with the MDT in planning and delivering care.
To maintain working knowledge of legislation, policy and guidance pertaining to
mental health and learning disabilities.
To identify, provide and supervise the necessary physical care to service users to
help them complete daily living activities, i.e. personal hygiene, diet and fluid
intake, clothing and laundry, manual handling, personal environment, manual
handling, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity and physical
observations.
About us
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
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Qualified Mental Health Nurse Valid NMC registration
Desirable
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Experience Essential
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Desirable
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Additional Criteria Essential
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Desirable
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Hollybank
10 Lavant Drive
Havant
Hampshire
PO9 2AW
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)