Job overview

Are you a compassionate and confident Registered Mental Health Nurse with a passion for delivering high-quality mental health care? Slough Community Mental Health Service is looking for a Band 6 RMN to lead our depot clinic and support physical health monitoring for people with severe mental illness on the team caseload.

This role is ideal for a nurse who enjoys specialist practice, autonomy and close multidisciplinary team collaboration. You will lead depot and long-acting injectable clinics, provide expert physical health monitoring, support medicines optimisation and play a key role in improving patient experience, safety and wellbeing. You will be the steady, skilled presence that ensures our depot clinic runs smoothly and safely, while supporting the wider team to maintain high clinical standards

Main duties of the job

• Lead and coordinate the depot/long-acting injectable service within Slough Community Mental Health Service, ensuring safe clinic flow, documentation and escalation.
• Administer depot/long-acting injectable medication safely in line with Trust policy and national guidance.
• Deliver high-quality physical health monitoring and maintain oversight of physical health pathways for people with severe mental illness.
• Promote recovery-focused care, physical wellbeing and medication adherence.
• Provide specialist nursing advice, psychoeducation and clinical leadership within the multidisciplinary team.
• Liaise with partner services, including GPs and voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations, where appropriate.
• Work collaboratively with Pharmacy to support medicines optimisation and safe prescribing.
• Maintain high standards of infection prevention and control, medicines management, patient safety and clinical governance.
• Contribute to the wider functions of the service as required.

Working for our organisation

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

At Berkshire Healthcare, we foster an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs.

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We welcome talent from all backgrounds and offer guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants and armed forces community members who meet the minimum criteria.

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