Registered Mental Health Nurse

Salary: £17.4 – £21.3 per hour

Options for Care are looking to recruit Senior Registered Mental Health Nurses and Mental Health Nurses for our two existing hospital units, Montague Court and Dartmouth House and our new hospital unit, Stanford Court. We are also recruiting Learning Disability Nurses with experience or passion for working in our mental health services.

• Montague Court is an 18 bed male long term mental health rehabilitation inpatient unit based in Edgbaston, Birmingham
• Dartmouth House is a 16 bed male long term mental health rehabilitation inpatient unit based in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham.
• Stanford Court will be a 20 bed male mental health inpatient unit based in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. This will consist of a 15 bed enhanced care service alongside five self-contained recovery flats to enable continued development of independent living skills in preparation for discharge.

We have limited vacancies in each of our existing services but we are also looking to build a new nursing team for Stanford Court. We are seeking dynamic and enthusiastic nurses with a genuine passion for working with people who have severe and enduring mental health diagnoses and share our mission, vision and values.

In addition to an annual pay review, Options for Care benefits from an incremental pay pathway linked to the appraisal process. The first of these is awarded following successful completion of a six-month probation period.

Options for Care have continually and successfully weathered the storm of COVID-19 alongside our health and social care colleagues. We recognise that the value of our CQC-rated Good and Outstanding services lies in our exceptional and committed staff. For this reason, all staff have an individual wellbeing risk assessment on commencement in post. This supports their continued wellbeing and attendance at work. Options for Care have ensured a constant supply of PPE from the very beginning and throughout the pandemic. Despite the government’s removal of isolation payments, Options for Care continues to offer COVID-19 isolation payments alongside company sick pay.

Staff continue to safely work with service users supporting them in their progression along their recovery pathway. Despite the pandemic and significantly increased challenges, we maintain relationship-centred, best practice interventions in collaboration with people, supporting individuals to improve their quality of life. They continue to work towards their personal goals whilst we maintain least restrictive principles.

Mission

Realising Potential

Vision

“We offer best practice interventions to enable personal recovery and wellbeing.”

Values

– “The individual is at the heart of everything we do.”

– “We inspire, stimulate and empower people to achieve and grow through compassionate, supportive and protective relationships.”

– “We deliver and continuously evaluate high quality service whilst respecting difference, promoting dignity and supporting the privacy of others.”

You will deliver person centred care, supporting individuals towards community integration. We are continually developing and evolving our care pathway and use best practice outcome measures and assessment tools.

Staff development, preceptorship (if required), support and supervision are in place alongside staff health benefits making Options for Care a welcoming and positive place to work.

Should you be interested in our Registered Mental Health Nurse post:

You will be required to provide quality evidence based nursing advice, support and care for people with complex, severe and enduring mental health needs and their carers within a multidisciplinary setting. You should understand and implement the mission, vision and values of the organisation.

Should you be interested in our Senior Mental Health Nurse post:

You will meet the usual expectations of a Registered Nurse and have the experience and confidence to support the wider clinical team offering coaching and clinical leadership to less experienced members of the clinical team. You will be a clinical role model within the multidisciplinary team providing quality, evidence based nursing advice, support and care.

Benefits:

• Registered Mental Health Nurse pay starts from £17.4 – £21.3 per hour

• Senior Registered Mental Health Nurse pay starts from £18.55 – £20.29 per hour
• Sick Pay
• £3000 welcome bonus (upon successful completion of probationary period)
• Shift Enhancements include 20% nights and 40% weekends

The Government mandated requirement for all health and social care workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2).

Options for Care encourages the uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations to protect individuals, colleagues, service users and communities as the best line of defence against COVID-19.