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Mental Health Nursing

Mental health nurses play a vital role at EPUT, working in various settings, including hospitals and community mental health teams, providing high-quality care to people who need it most.

Mental health nurses play an important part in supporting people on a daily basis with their mental health. Building relationships with patients and their relatives or carer, advising on relevant therapies or social activities available, and guiding patients on taking medication correctly are just some of the varied aspects to the role of a mental health nurse.  

To become a mental health nurse you need to have completed a three-year undergraduate degree in mental health nursing and must also be a registered nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

At EPUT, we offer many great benefits for our mental health nurses, including training and development opportunities, competitive salaries, and excellent benefits. Here are some of the benefits of working as a mental health nurse in EPUT:

  • Competitive salaries and options for fast career progression.
  • Excellent benefits, including pension, health insurance, and paid leave.
  • A place to develop clinical leadership while maintaining hands-on nursing skills.
  • Great opportunity to develop leadership and problem-solving skills.
  • A chance to make a real difference in people's lives.

We have number of different roles in Bands 5, 6 and 7 such as: 

What it takes to be a Mental Health Nurse?

A Mental Health nurse acts as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their unsupervised actions guided by our NMC code of conduct and trust policies.

A Mental Health nurse acts as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for their unsupervised actions guided by our NMC code of conduct and trust policies.

Your role is to build effective relationships with people who use mental health services, and also with their relatives and carers. You might help one person to take their medication correctly while advising another about relevant therapies or social activities. 

Success comes from being able to establish trusting relationships quickly and to help individuals understand their situation and get the best possible outcome. You'll be trained about the legal context of your work and also be able to identify whether and when someone may be at risk of harming themselves or someone else.

You'll usually based in hospitals, for example on a psychiatric ward or specialist unit, or in the community where you could work in a community health centre or in someone's home. If you work in a residential setting, you may do shifts and provide 24-hour care.

You'll work as part of a team which includes GPs, psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, arts therapists and healthcare assistants.

This is your role if you are:

  • Confident and able to cope in potentially challenging situations.
  • Take a holistic, person-centred approach to care.
  • Ready to develop your skills, knowledge and career.
  • Have high level of knowledge about the philosophy of the 6 C’s of care

Join EPUT for a rewarding and challenging career in mental healthcare!

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