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New, innovative career opportunity with a multi-disciplinary approach to nursing!

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is always looking for fresh ways to deliver the highest standards of care for our Service Users and our Acute Male Inpatient Ward in Lincoln is offering an innovative career opportunity for a Registered Mental Health Nurse.

Ellis Ward is seeking a Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMHN) who is committed to providing high-quality care. We are offering a permanent role to work alongside our current nursing staff and be part of the multi-disciplinary team that really delivers. This is a unique opportunity and you’ll be ambitious to take a multidisciplinary approach to delivering care to our inpatients. Do you feel you could meet our patient's expectations? Do you want to develop your skills, with the backing of a well-developed team and make a difference to the recovery of our patients?  Are you seeking an opportunity to join a forward thinking Trust, great career opportunities, excellent training,  where you can be challenged but rewarded and provide the standard of care to really make a difference every day – If the answer is yes, we want you to join our team. Ellis Ward is the only male acute ward within the Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. It is an 18 bedded male only acute ward with an additional one bed allocated for emergency admission.  

Main duties of the job

The team is responsible for the identification, assessment, care planning, implementation and review of the needs of service users. The nursing team works in partnership with carers, other members of the multi disciplinary team and community agencies. work supporting Service Users who are under the care of the team due to an acute episode of illness. 

Working closely with those service users who are acutely mentally unwell and have a wide range of diagnosis. Inpatient services is a large sector and the nursing team work flexible hours and across all areas of inpatient services. It is expected that at times you may need to be redeployed to others areas to assist them in the caring of service users.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.