Staff Nurse - Mental Health Community

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

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• 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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The “must haves” for this role:

• Current registration as a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN).
• At least two years’ post-registration experience, including demonstrable experience in community mental health.
• Evidence of continuing post-registration professional development.
• Competence and experience in the safe administration of depot/long-acting injectable medication.
• Physical health monitoring skills and relevant training.
• Ability to provide specialist nursing input and clinical leadership within a multidisciplinary team.
• Car driver with the ability to travel as required for the role.
• Desirable: Non-medical prescribing qualification.

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses given in your supporting statement genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

In addition to explaining how you meet the person specification, you must complete your employment history for at least the last five years. Any experience, skills or responsibilities referenced in your supporting statement should be evidenced within your employment history. Applications that do not include sufficient employment history to support the experience claimed may not be shortlisted.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Stonewall Proud Employer, Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have.

Please note, the role may close earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Our Trust’s vision is ‘To be a great place to get care, a great place to give care.’
This vision guides everything we do – for our patients, their carers, their families, our staff, and our partners. To achieve it, we are committed to a strong set of values that underpin the way we work:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority – we put people at the centre of everything we do.
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services – we strive for excellence in care and in our ways of working.
• Working together with you to develop innovative solutions – we collaborate with patients, carers, colleagues, and communities to deliver care that makes a difference.

These values are brought to life through our four Trust Behaviours, which are essential to how we work and the culture we create:

• Compassionate – Motivated to positively impact the wellbeing of self and others.
• Curious – Listening, learning and exploring new ideas and ways of working to continually improve what we do.
• Inclusive – Valuing diversity and championing equity by ensuring everyone feels recognised.
  able to contribute and committed to actively addressing unfairness.
• Perseverance – Demonstrates resilience and flexibility even during periods of uncertainty, to achieve goals that contribute to high-quality care and services.

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

Watch our careers video to learn more.

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

Please note we may close positions before the advertised date.

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