Location
London

Hours
Full Time - 38.5 hours per week, working days and nights on a rota basis (shift times 7:30am to 8:00pm; 7:30pm to 8:00am)

Salary
£24.48 per hour

About the Role
Helping others improve and turn their lives around – there’s no better feeling. Join Cygnet Hospital Beckton as a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) and be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop your skills across specialities such as DBT and other specialist pathways all under one roof.

Hooper Ward is a 13-bed acute mental health service for women, providing a safe and stabilising environment for individuals experiencing an acute episode of mental illness requiring emergency admission.

Upping Ward is a 15-bed Intensive Support Service for women with personality disorders and complex mental health needs. This service offers a robust programme of care for women with challenging high-risk behaviour who may have had previous inappropriate placements, aiming to meet their needs in a less restrictive setting.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include developing therapeutic relationships with service users and carers to motivate and support recovery, collaborating with colleagues to ensure safe and effective care, applying skilled interventions based on assessed needs, maintaining contemporaneous records and care plans, producing detailed nursing reports, working with management to develop services and improve quality, attending training and engaging in continuous professional development, administering prescribed medicines in line with healthcare procedures and guidelines, and ensuring care plans are complete and maintained in accordance with NMC guidelines.

Experience
Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) with a current NMC Pin Number. Experience in maintaining documentation, undertaking audits, and applying the Mental Health Act 1983. Ability to deputise in a clinical lead role.

About you
Open, compassionate, honest, and resilient. Focused on patient recovery with the ability to monitor, manage, and reduce risk. Committed to empowering and supporting service user independence. Well informed of latest nursing practices.

Qualifications
Registered Mental Health Nurse qualification with current NMC registration. Commitment to ongoing professional development and engagement in CPD activities.