Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurse
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Snowdrop and Rose Wards.

Prospect Park Hospital, Reading, RG30 4EJ
Monday to Sunday - Earlies (6.45 - 14.45), Lates 12:00- 20:00), Long days (6.45 - 20:00) and Nights (19.30 - 07.15)
Band 5: £20ph Weekdays, £24ph Nights and Saturdays, £28ph Sundays and Bank Holidays

We have four wards dedicated to adult mental health care.

Each ward is mixed gender, has a maximum of 23 beds and is allocated areas of Berkshire to receive referrals from.

Rose ward - patients from Slough
Snowdrop ward - patients from Bracknell, Windsor, Ascot and Maidenhead

Key Responsibilities

• To lead the clinical management of a care package to an individual who uses our services.


• To co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person centered healthcare to a designated group of people who use our services, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate.


• To deliver individual and group therapy utilizing CBT skills.


• To work as a member of the MDT in assessing and planning care and responding to changes in people who use our services health.


• To ensure provision of the necessary physical care to help people who use our services i.e.: personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, personal environment, manual handling, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations.


• To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these.


• To ensure provision of therapeutic activities, emotional support and stability to clients to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries.


• To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery.


• To ensure prescribed physical observations are undertaken as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and act upon exceptions appropriately

Communication

• To accurately record all contacts with service users in case notes in line with SABP record keeping policy.


• To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives and carers, visitors, staff and others.


• To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.


• To develop measures to improve communications where barriers exist


• To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to People who use our services.


• To communicate with people in a manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background

We also offer a £250 bonus for starting this contract this will be paid out to you after 150 hours completed (4 Weeks)

If you know anyone who may be interested in the position we can also offer a £250 referral fee