Mental Health Nurse

Reference

PRI96345

Location

The Priory Hospital Enfield, 15 Church Street, Edmonton, London, N9 9DY

Priory Group Division

Healthcare

Salary

£36176 - £38596 DOE

Hours

37.5

Vacancy Type

Permanent - Full Time

Job Advert Role Description

Priory Hospital Enfield provides a full care pathway which includes acute services for both males and females, along with Medium Secure and Low Secure units for males. The full multidisciplinary team works with those who have a diagnosis of mental illness and associated challenging behaviours.

Our aim is to support all of patients through our developed care pathway using the recovery approach. Our patients are at the centre of what we do and they co-produce their own treatment plans with us.

Our Approach

We ensure patients receive the best possible experience possible and we enable them to function at their optimum level by providing the skills necessary for greater independence.

Our extensive facilities give patients every opportunity to retain and learn skills which will help them to recover and reintegrate into the community when it is appropriate.

All patients go through the following process:

• Assessed as required
• Medication and risks reviewed
• Psychological assessments take place – cognitive, personality, and projective assessments

One-to-one psychological therapy sessions provide support and counselling so that patients can work collaboratively with their team to address their behaviour and risk and prepare for re-engagement into the community. In addition we offer a range of evidence-based group therapies targeted to address risk-related behaviours and to promote recovery, with approaches informed by:

• Mentalisation-based treatment (MBT)
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Schema therapy
• Motional interviewing
• Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT)
• Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)

The Environment

We believe that the environment in which our therapy takes place, is just as important as the treatment itself and we provide:

• Fitness room
• Occupational therapy kitchen
• Games and leisure room
• Courtyard and grounds access for sports and exercise
• Computer suite including Microsoft Works and supervised internet access
• Local transport links including bus services, and links to underground and over-ground rail
• Community resources

The hospital is close to Edmonton town centre and has community resources available to the patients who have leave where appropriate.

Job Profile

• Deliver high quality, service users focussed care
• Participate in the development of new services and care pathways
• Support the local implementation of the Group Nursing Strategy
• Engage in continuous quality improvement within your service

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Abilities

• Registered nurse with active NMC PIN with 12 months post qualifying experience
• Relevant clinical experience
• Demonstrates a positive attitude and commitment to change, improvement and quality
• Ability to develop and use flexible and innovative approaches to practise.
• Excellent verbal , interpersonal and written communication skills

Priory Healthcare Benefits

• Excellent salary
• Free on-site parking
• Supplemented meals on duty
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Birthday Holiday - Your Birthday as an extra day's annual leave
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Contributory pension scheme
• Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets / smartphones) and private healthcare
• Access to development opportunities
• Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel
• Leadership & management development
• Long service award
• Refer a friend bonuses
• Relocation support (including payment for accommodation or moving costs) up to £3000 (Terms apply)

Additional benefits for nurses at Priory Hospital Enfield:

• £5000 Welcome bonus
• Fully funded DBS
• Fully funded NMC registration
• Return to Practice support
• Mentorship experience
• CPD top up
• Management and Leadership development opportunities

Are Registered Mental Health Nurses Superheroes?

At Priory Group, you don’t have to have superhuman powers to be a hero in our eyes. We want the care our nurses provide to our service users to be super. As a mental health nurse at Priory you’ll be part of a company that is supportive and has your welfare and interests at heart. Mental health nursing is a tough but rewarding career and we want to make sure that our relationship with you is a long-term thing, not a flash in the pan.

It takes a genuine desire to help other people, along with a lot of dedication and compassion to be a Mental Health Nurse. In return, we want to make sure you get the reward you deserve which is why we offer market leading salaries as well as bonuses and benefits, you’ll get job satisfaction and we’ll support you to develop your skills and grow with the company via our Career Pathways programme. You’ll get to build therapeutic relationships with the people you care for so you can help them through their difficult time and find ways to take control over their own health. It’s a chance to make a real and lasting difference to someone.

At Priory, you’ll be joining the UK’s largest provider of high quality mental health care with around 350 services across the country. Since joining forces with rehabilitation specialists, MEDIAN, we aim to be the leading European provider of mental health and rehabilitative services. By joining us, you’d be key to helping us bring the best of MEDIAN and Priory to our patients and residents.

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About us

As one of the UK’s leading providers of behavioural care and specialist support services, Priory promise a challenging and fulfilling career with the support of a world class organisation willing to invest in your development.

Across our network of hospitals, residential care homes and supported living services, we are making a real and lasting difference to the lives of the people we support.