Job Description: Registered Nurse
Altair Healthcare are looking for Registered Mental Health Nurses to join our team in Devon and Cornwall. If you share our passion to make a difference to people's lives by providing them with support to live independently in their own homes, within their communities, we would love to hear from you.
Full or part-time hours
About the Role:
You will need to be NMC registered, with at least 2 years experience of working with people with mental health problems.
Duties include:
- Supporting people with mental health problems to live independently within their own homes and communities.
- Supporting them to perform activities of daily living in accordance with their support plan.
- Medication administration and management.
- Working with service users in a way that promotes recovery, independence and social inclusion.
- Ensuring service users' safety in accordance with their risk assessments, including physical security and safeguarding issues.
- Record-keeping - ensuring that all relevant information is recorded, is accurate and up to date.
- Awareness of safeguarding issues and understanding of the process for raising safeguarding concerns.
- Upholding service users' confidentiality, understanding the data protection legislation (GDPR) policy and the information sharing process.
- Where required/necessary, working collaboratively with other agencies to maximise service users' outcomes.
About You:
- You must have a kind, caring, and friendly personality with a genuine desire to work with people - to make a difference by providing day-to-day support to enable them to live independently.
- You will need to have a caring, patient and compassionate nature, with the ability to show empathy for others.
- You will need good communication and interpersonal skills to engage effectively with service users, their families and other professionals.
- You must be willing to engage in relevant training for role and for professional development.
- You will need to have a full UK driving licence with use of a car, as the role requires travelling between customers' homes.
Benefits:
Free training
- Annual leave (up to 28 days, pro rata)
- Weekly payroll with excellent pay rates
Job Type: Full-time, Part-time
Salary: £20.00 - £26 per hour