Mental Health Acute Care Nurse

Job summary

We currently have a vacancy for a full-time Registered Mental Health Nurse to work within the Acute Inpatient Service. Ward 12 is a mixed-sex adult acute inpatient ward.

This is an exciting opportunity for self-motivated and enthusiastic individuals to work within the Acute Care Team, supporting adults experiencing acute mental ill health within Lincolnshire. The Acute Care Service provides assessment and individualised care within the least restrictive environment, with minimal disruption to the service user, their families, and carers.

We are looking for conscientious, motivated, and progressive staff who can demonstrate a commitment to providing and maintaining high standards of care. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a flexible and responsive approach, are required to fulfil the role within this rewarding area of mental health.

As a trust, in the past few years we have been voted by our own staff as one of the best mental health trusts in England and achieved the best Mental Health Trust Nationally in the 2018 staff survey. We firmly believe that high-quality patient care is provided by a contented workforce, and this is reflected in the latest CQC report, which was outstanding for being well led and good overall.

For an informal discussion or further information about the vacancy, please contact Sarah Robinson at sarah.robinson84@nhs or 01205 445166.

Main duties of the job

To be part of an integrated health/social care team providing inpatient care for service users suffering from serious and enduring mental illness. Offering nursing interventions in a wide variety of clinical, therapeutic, and social forms with the aim of promoting mental health, well-being, self-autonomy, and independence.

The postholder will be responsible for the assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care, in liaison with the care team in the capacity of a mental health nurse.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.