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Job overview

This role will be supporting the ward daily routines on shifts, supporting patients, managing the shift team and working within the Multi-Disciplinary Team.

You will be allocated ward lead(s) (this may include audits) and supervise Health Care Assistants that are allocated to you.

You will get an opportunity to work with deaf patients from 18 years onward with various Mental Health Conditions such as Schizophrenia, Depression, Bipolar, Personality Disorder and so on.

There will be opportunities to work with patients that have learning disabilities and other sensory loss such as deaf Blindness, Ushers Syndrome and other physical health conditions. These are rare opportunities that will expand your experiences.

This will give you an opportunity to work on a unique environment, gain a new skillset such as BSL (British Sign Language), learning how to support a specialised patient group that you won’t get in another service within the trust.

You will also have opportunities to work with student nurses (in a supervisor role and possibly as an assessor if qualified).

We are now in a new ward in the Trinity building which has been created to offer a spacious relaxed environment for patients.

Main duties of the job

As a Registered Nurse you provide direct personal care to service users/ patients, without direct supervision, and co-ordinate the care given by colleagues.

The post holder will deliver high quality safe nursing care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct.

The role includes leading the delivery of comprehensive service user assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of person-centered care in a collaborative way. The post holder will co-ordinate a first class service that includes assessment and monitoring of physical health, maintaining service users rights, supervising junior staff and students, working collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team and maintaining a safe and therapeutic working environment and accurate records.

• Band 5 nursing roles are only open only to staff with a nursing registration, obtained as a result of completing a qualification recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
• Skills that are required of this role: Organisational, good time-keeping, excellent communication, team-player and good delegation skills.
• Qualities that are desirable: Compassion, empathy, a team-player and resilience.

Working for our organisation

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.