Senior NurseinSouthamptoninSouthamptonPUBLISHED MON 10 MAR 2025

We are looking for a dedicated Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse to join us on our Kite Unit at the South of England Rehabilitation Centre (SERC).

The Kite unit is a ten-bed neuropsychiatric rehab service for adults following an acquired brain injury, whose impairments are largely in the cognitive, behavioural, or mental health spectrum, with the aim to enable patients to rebuild their lives after a brain injury. We are proud to have been accepted on the pathway towards accreditation with the Quality Network for Neuropsychiatry Services.

You will be responsible for meeting the needs of patients and their families to achieve improved health outcomes and promote health and wellbeing while demonstrating care, compassion, competence, communication, courage, and commitment. We are passionate about patient centred, culturally sensitive and evidence-based care which promotes independence.

If you're interested, please get in touch for an informal visit to the unit to see how we make a difference to people's lives.

• Assess patients, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care and carry out nursing procedures.
• Provides direct nursing care for patient to achieve best health outcomes.
• Ensures use of nursing knowledge and skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patients/clients/family/ health needs as well as actively promote health and wellbeing.
• Contributes to effective discharge planning and referral processes
• Manage care of patients on a day to day basis and when required manage care of all patients in the absence of senior colleagues.
• Accurately document assessments of patients health status, diagnosis and response to nursing and other interventions and treatments on the Trust Clinical Records System.
• Educate and provides information to patients to improve their recovery.
• Role models culturally safe nursing practice and report poor practice when observed.
• Practices in accordance with legal, ethical, culturally safe, and professional standards including the Code of practice.
• Acts as a named nurse/key worker.
• Plan and co-ordinates complex healthcare packages that are responsive to the individuals changing healthcare needs i.e. challenging behaviour, mental health and complex physical health needs.
• Being a Student Assessor, a Shift Co-ordinator as well as supervising other staff.
• Accepting, reviewing and auditing Mental Health paperwork
• Checking rotas and sending unfilled shifts to Bank in the absence of the Ward Manager
• Attending meetings in the absence of the Ward Manager

About us

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.