Job summary
Are you a compassionate Registered Mental Nurse (RMN) seeking a new opportunity? We have a Clinic Nurse position at Glanville House, Bridgwater within our Community Mental Health Team.
Our team runs weekly clinics for administering Clozapine, Depot and carrying out wellbeing checks, which includes ECGs. bloods, height, weight, blood pressure, sats, lithium monitoring etc.
You'll need to be a car driver with your own vehicle to visit patients. We offer a generous mileage allowance to cover the use of your car for NHS business, which includes both mileage and depreciation.
If you're a qualified RMN looking for a rewarding challenge to advance your nursing career, join our friendly, and highly skilled team of nurses and support staff. We also welcome applications from newly qualified nurses, where we can offer you preceptorship to support and guide you in your new role.
Main duties of the job
As a community RMN, you'll provide care to patients both in our clinics and within their homes, managing a range of serious mental illnesses and collaborating with various other teams.
You'll also work closely with the Community Mental Health Service, Open Mental Health and Voluntary Sector. You'll use a broad range of mental health nursing skills, including administering Clozapine, Depot and carrying out wellbeing clinics, which includes ECGs. bloods, height, weight, blood pressure, sats, lithium monitoring etc.
You'll need to make autonomous clinical decisions and create holistic care plans, with the support of your colleagues and Team Leaders. Comprehensive training and guidance will be provided by our dedicated Clinical Lead nurse.
Our service is Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, so no weekend working required - office hours only!
About us
At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, we're committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:
Flexible working options to help you balance work and life
NHS pension scheme for long-term financial security
Generous annual leave allowance to recharge and relax
A strong focus on career development to help you grow and achieve your potential
Additionally, you'll gain access to our Blue Light Card, unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work.
We are proud to foster a diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.
Why Somerset? Somerset offers the perfect blend of idyllic countryside, outstanding areas of natural beauty, and breathtaking coastlines, with vibrant cities like Bristol, Bath, and Exeter just a short drive away - and only two hours to London.
The region is home to excellent educational facilities, and with affordable housing compared to other parts of the country, it's a great place to build both your career and your future.
Somerset truly has it all - the peaceful countryside and cosmopolitan city life, with something for everyone to enjoy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN
- Current registration with relevant professional body
Desirable
- Evidence of post qualifying professional development in an acute setting.
Experience
Essential
- Good knowledge of resources and working practices across health and social care.
- Ability to be innovative in practice.
- Evidence of a good standard of literacy/English language skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including presentation of cases to multi-disciplinary case conferences.
- Able to carry out evidence-based interventions.
- Compassionate - exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with patients, carers and relatives about complex and sensitive issues remaining sensitive and empathetic.
- Listens to others' views respecting and valuing individual patient needs.
- Professional and patient focussed approach with inspirational skills, acting as a role model to colleagues.
- Excellent organisational skills, ability to manage own time and plan timed activities for staff and patients.
- Ability to recognise and manage challenging situations in a calm and professional manner.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Ability to work autonomously and independently with mentor oversight.
- Ability to record and retrieve information on charts/paper and electronic patient records
- High standards of written communication skills with the ability to use email and internet.
- Ability to work in partnership with other agencies.
- Willingness to participate in the facilitation of groups with supervisory oversight.
Desirable
- Experience of managing risk of clients in crisis.
- Experience of assessment, care-plan, development and evaluation in conjunction with clients and carers.
- Experience and knowledge of working with people with mental health problems or experience of mental health difficulties.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN
- Current registration with relevant professional body
Desirable
- Evidence of post qualifying professional development in an acute setting.
Experience
Essential
- Good knowledge of resources and working practices across health and social care.
- Ability to be innovative in practice.
- Evidence of a good standard of literacy/English language skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including presentation of cases to multi-disciplinary case conferences.
- Able to carry out evidence-based interventions.
- Compassionate - exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with patients, carers and relatives about complex and sensitive issues remaining sensitive and empathetic.
- Listens to others' views respecting and valuing individual patient needs.
- Professional and patient focussed approach with inspirational skills, acting as a role model to colleagues.
- Excellent organisational skills, ability to manage own time and plan timed activities for staff and patients.
- Ability to recognise and manage challenging situations in a calm and professional manner.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Ability to work autonomously and independently with mentor oversight.
- Ability to record and retrieve information on charts/paper and electronic patient records
- High standards of written communication skills with the ability to use email and internet.
- Ability to work in partnership with other agencies.
- Willingness to participate in the facilitation of groups with supervisory oversight.
Desirable
- Experience of managing risk of clients in crisis.
- Experience of assessment, care-plan, development and evaluation in conjunction with clients and carers.
- Experience and knowledge of working with people with mental health problems or experience of mental health difficulties.
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).
Additional information
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).
