Discover psychiatric intensive care unit (PICU)/ psychiatric ICU nurse agency jobs in Northampton with Proximity Healthcare, the UK’s leading healthcare recruiter and employer. Our experts have more than 30 years of experience assisting with healthcare hiring compliance law adherence and advocating for registered nurses, practitioners, carers, technicians, and HCAs (healthcare assistants).
Our recruiters negotiate with our wide range of public and private healthcare facilities to help nurses achieve work-life balance through greater flexibility in schedule and open doors to growth opportunities, like being a charge nurse, ward nurse, or nurse educator. The best part? This is all 100% free for healthcare staff! Our partner facilities cover all recruitment costs, leaving you to provide excellent care without worries.
Why PICU nurses?
PICU nurses are the rope the most acutely disturbed have to hold on to. They’re the first point of contact when inpatients first enter acute mental health care, helping with the stabilisation process, assuring family members and patients, and coordinating care plans with psychiatrists, psychologists, and sometimes social workers and occupational therapists.
They deal with the often contentious matter of medication administration, as well as form positive emotional bonds with patients to expedite the healing process. The job is intense but can be incredibly rewarding. It’s satisfying signing off discharge papers and seeing someone go home or move to the general ward after they are emotionally lucid enough.
To be a mental health nurse, especially one in a psychiatric ICU, you’ll need boundless empathy and compassion, a sense of humour, a thick skin, and a passion for lending a hand to people in their darkest times.
If you would like to make a difference as a mental health nurse in the psychiatric intensive care unit doing nurse agency jobs in Northampton, contact Proximity Healthcare or click register below. We would love to help you!