Job overview

Bank RMN Community Nurses Band 6

Do you enjoy caring for people?

Do you want the flexibility to determine your own shift pattern?

Do you already have experience, but would like to broaden your clinical experience; working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver a wide range of care?

 We are inviting passionate and committed individuals to join our Trust's Staff Bank.

 We are looking for motivated, skilled, and experienced Registered Mental Health Nurses (RMNs) to work in our community setting.

 The BANK RMN under the direction of a nurse in charge, is accountable for the provision, organisation, and direction of safe and person centred nursing care approaches for patients.

Main duties of the job

To cover shifts in various departments across Oxleas Trust where the Multi-Disciplinary Team have

identified that a Registered Mental Health Nurse is required to provide care to patients with complex

and enduring mental health needs.

Care Coordinators working with people with rehabilitation needs should ensure they are competent in:

• Engagement

• Working with a biopsychosocial formulation

• Assessment skills

• Using explanatory models of illness

• Knowledge of Mental Health diagnosis

• Explaining treatment options

• Negotiating skills

• Skills for working with families of people with psychosis

• Conflict management and conflict resolution.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care