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With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Main area: Mental Health
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (24 hour rotational shift system)
Job ref: 333-D-MK-MH-1233
Site: Campbell Centre
Town: Milton Keynes
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 p.a (pro rata if part time)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/01/2025 23:59
Job overview
AN EXCEPTIONAL PLACE TO WORK AND AN EXCEPTIONAL REWARD PACKAGE TO MATCH
JOIN OUR AIMS ACCREDITED INPATIENT SERVICE
We are currently looking to recruit highly motivated a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our expanding team of nurses following investment and recent promotions. We have recently recruited nurses awarded excellent during their nurse training.
We are keen to gain a good skills mix within the teams and invite applications from both recently qualified nurses, for whom we will support through preceptorship in the first year of joining, as well as experienced Staff Nurses who want to gain new skills and career progression prospects.
Interviews will be taken place face to face.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Main duties of the job
* To co-ordinate and provide care and treatment to an identified group of patients without direct supervision.
* Take responsibility for the development and delivery of evidence-based nursing practice, ensuring that it supports and reflects service user individual needs.
* Contribute to the development of high quality evidence based in-patient services in a changing health care environment.
* Contribute towards ensuring that the ward functions as an integral part of Mental Health Services.
* Effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.
* To practice within professional guidelines and promote professional practice in the clinical setting.
* To ensure continuous professional development through regular supervision, training and appraisal.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NMC Registered Nurse (Mental Health) OR Registered Nurse (Learning Difficulty) OR Registered Nurse (Adult)
Knowledge and Skills
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care, minimising clinical risk and reducing restrictive practices
* To have knowledge of Mental Health presentations and appropriate interventions.
* Awareness of NMC Code of Conduct Current and developments in nursing care.
* Awareness of supervision and reflective practices
* Knowledge of risk management and how to plan care to account for risk
Experience
* Experience of working with people with mental health problems/ learning disabilities
* Managing challenging and aggressive behavior
* Experience of providing individualized and culturally sensitive care
* Working within a multidisciplinary team environment
Other
* Physically able to undertake relevant training for service area, i.e. Physical Intervention Training
* Able to work a rotational shift pattern
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Gemma Levins
Job title: Interim Matron
Email address: gemma.levins@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01908 724645
Additional information:
Visits to the wards are welcome - for an informal discussion contact
Gemma Levins on 01908 724970
or
Petra Chesango on 01908 725101
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