Location: Garforth, Leeds
Pay: £19–£21 per hour
Contract: Full-time, permanent opportunities
Positions available: Five
Brookes Recruitment is recruiting Registered Mental Health Nurses for a specialist women’s mental health hospital near Garforth, Leeds.
The hospital supports women with complex mental health needs, particularly personality disorders. Its services include low-secure care, psychiatric intensive care and structured rehabilitation.
Patients may also present with challenging behaviour, substance misuse, learning disabilities, disordered eating and dissociative identity disorder. Care is delivered through a recovery-focused, trauma-informed model by an experienced multidisciplinary team.
Responsibilities
As a Registered Mental Health Nurse, you will:
* Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate person-centred mental health nursing care.
* Complete and regularly review individual care plans and risk assessments.
* Administer and manage medication safely.
* Monitor patients’ mental and physical wellbeing.
* Respond appropriately to changes in presentation and periods of crisis.
* Maintain professional boundaries and promote a safe therapeutic environment.
* Support patients with rehabilitation, independence and recovery goals.
* Contribute to multidisciplinary reviews and clinical discussions.
* Maintain accurate and timely clinical records.
* Follow safeguarding, infection-control and health-and-safety procedures.
* Provide guidance and support to other members of the care team.
Requirements
Applicants must:
* Be a qualified Registered Mental Health Nurse.
* Hold a current UK NMC registration.
* Have a compassionate, recovery-focused approach.
* Be confident supporting people with complex mental health needs.
* Possess strong communication, decision-making and record-keeping skills.
* Be able to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
* Have an existing Right to Work in the UK.
Previous experience within an inpatient mental health hospital, PICU, secure service, personality-disorder service or rehabilitation setting would be advantageous.
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Salary description
£19.00 - £21.00 per hour