Job summary
- Main area
- Registered Mental Health Nurse
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time with shift patterns)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR207-0524
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Glamorgan Hospital - Mental Health Inpatient
- Town
- Llantrisant
- Salary
- £28,834 - £35,099 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Registered Mental Health Nurse
Band 5
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
The successful candidate will need to have a specific interest in PICU (Psychiatric intensive care). Our most challenging environment with more intense mental health difficulties. Higher staff to patient ratio. Based on creating low stimulus area and deescalation. Has self contained extra care area used by individual patients focus is to induce calm and relaxed surroundings (6 beds).
However patient assessment, care planning and review, liaison with multidisciplinary services and accurate and timely discharge planning are all commonplace across all areas of work as an inpatient mental health unit
If you are up for a challenge and contribute to making life batter and easier for patients with intense mental health difficulties we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for band 5 registered mental health nurses to work in a busy and challenging inpatient environment. There are a number of full time and permanent posts available which are based in our Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) . The successful candidates would have an understanding of how the inpatient unit functions and how each of the individual wards operate and relate to each other and alternative departments within the mental health directorate . You will need to demonstrate a genuine interest and enthusiasm for caring for people with mental health difficulties. It would be an advantage to have experience in inpatient mental health care as they may on times be the nurse in charge of the ward. However we are also very interested in new graduates and assisting them with their professional development.
This is a real opportunity to become part of cohesive, supportive and highly functioning teams. You will take a key role in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care in all specialities.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- UK Nursing and Midwifery Council registration - RMN
- Up to date with current Mental Health legislation and developments
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience of in-patient nursing
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good clinical, communication, listening, organisational and negotiating skills
- Work as a member of a Team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jessica Hoyle
- Job title
- Ward Manager PICU
- Email address
- [email protected]
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