Job overview

There is an exciting opportunity to join the Queen Elizabeth Hospital as a registered mental health nurse.

This role will see you managing a delegated caseload of mental health care services to people with mental health care needs, plus support and advising to other health care professionals.

To support aspects of service development as well as ensuring that personal appearance, practise, and manner conform to the standards and expectation of the trust.

Main duties of the job

To support the development of effective mental health care pathways within the service.

Provide the appropriate interventions to patients with mental illness (incorporating NICE guidelines) and participate in mental health promotion.

Practice autonomously in making clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of action, managing, and providing a high quality of care, initiate, create and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, ensuring that practice is patient centred.

Ensuring that all patients are given full explanation of their care pathway/treatment options and no decision is taken forward without their consent.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH.  We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
 
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
 
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
 
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
 
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit.  We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome.  We love working here and think you will too.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications/training and professional development

Essential criteria

• Nursing Degree or equivalent, DIP OT, Clinical psychology or equivalent
• Mentorship qualification or ENB 998. Willingness to train to become Sign-off mentor
• Ongoing professional development working towards degree level
• Higher Degree or post graduate certificate
• Registered mental Health Nurse

Desirable criteria

• Good to great management course or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate an appropriate level of knowledge of mental health practice from previous experience
• Demonstrate effective risk assessment and risk management experience
• Experience in the delivery of clinical interventions
• Experience in working in team delivering person centred treatment packages

Desirable criteria

• Experience in delivering group-based Interventions
• Experience in supporting service development

Skills, abilities, and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Risk assessment knowledge and skills
• Able to effectively prioritise own workload
• Ability to use basic IT skills
• Satisfactory verbal and written language skills
• Knowledge of medication and the monitoring of its effects
• Knowledge of psychosocial Interventions
• An understanding of the policies and guidelines both local and national e.g. National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines (Government Initiative)

Desirable criteria

• PMA Training
• Prevention and Management of Suicide training
• Medicine Management
• Safeguarding training
• Developing knowledge of local wider systems and networks
• Knowledge of Health Promotion

Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race ,ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values.