Job overview
We're looking for a Staff Nurse with a passion for making a real difference to Older people experiencing mental health issues.
Could this be you? Are you already a Band 5 RMN or soon to be qualified?
Cherwell Ward is a 17 bedded Female Older Adult Mental Health Inpatient ward. We specialise in the care and treatment of female older adult experiencing mental ill health.
The Older Adult Mental Health wards provide acute psychiatric Inpatient assessment and treatment of Older people within Oxfordshire with either a functional and/or organic illness for both male and female older adults within the Fulbrook Centre.
Successful applicants should have strong skills regarding physical co-morbidities and the management of our patients physical health co-morbidities or the passion and drive to learn about how to support our patients to manage them.
Main duties of the job
As a Mental Health Nurse, you’ll be responsible for the co-ordination and management of the ward for a span of duty, as well as being responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care in co-production with patients and carers.
In addition, you’ll develop effective risk management plans, using the risk formulation framework and timely review of the risk management plan identifying opportunities for positive risk taking in conjunction with the client, carers/significant others and the ward team.
You must have excellent communication skills, be reliable, punctual and work well in a team, whilst being adaptable to changing situations.
You will need to be able to work calmly and efficiently within a busy and intensive environment dealing with unpredictable situations whilst remaining focused on providing a person-centred and recovery approach to care and treatment.
Working for our organisation
Our ward team consists of Nurses, Registered Nurse Associates, Consultant Psychiatrist, Occupational Therapist, Physio Therapists, Psychology and an Activity Coordinator. With support when needed from Speech and Language therapy, Dietician and a Neurologist.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
1. Excellent opportunities for career progression
2. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
3. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
4. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
5. Competitive pension scheme
6. Lease car scheme
7. Cycle to work scheme
8. Employee Assistance Programme
9. Mental Health First Aiders
10. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
11. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A qualified RMN with passion and drive for developing your clinical skills in a changeable environment
Be self-motivated and able to work autonomously as well as showing initiative and promoting new ideas on how to improve the service. Supporting and supervising Registered Nurse associates and Health care Assistants.
Be compassionate, caring and creative with excellent communication skills, and be able to adapt your communications appropriately.
A flexible and positive attitude with a willingness to accommodate our 24/7 service working earlies, lates, nights, weekends and bank holidays.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
12. RMN or Training to become RMN
13. Fluent command of the English Language and ability to complete and maintain written records professionally.
14. IT literate
Essential
Essential criteria
15. Able to handle complaints sensitively and effectively
16. Able to co-ordinate a span of duty on an Older adult ward
17. Demonstrate willingness to be involved in mentoring students
18. Demonstrate willingness to coach Health Care Assistants
Desirable criteria
19. Worked in a mental health setting
Essential
Essential criteria
20. Have a good understanding of common physical health illnesses in Older People
Desirable criteria
21. Previous experience of working with Older Adults
22. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
23. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
24. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
25. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
26. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
27. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
28. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing