Employer: Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Walkergate Park
Town: Newcastle Upon Tyne
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59
Staff Nurse
Band 5
Job Overview
We are looking for caring, empathetic, enthusiastic, and motivated individuals who have a passion to improve the lives of our patients. We have new opportunities for Registered Nurses on Ward 2 at Walkergate Park Hospital.
As a CNTW employee, we will support you in your personal and career development. You'll have access to a great range of training opportunities through our in-house Academy including Coaching, Apprenticeships, and our Leadership Development Programme.
Main Duties of the Job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a caring, compassionate, and enthusiastic qualified Band 5 Staff Nurse (Registered Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurses) to work within the Neuropsychiatry inpatient service on Ward 2, Walkergate Park.
The regional service supports individuals who have neurological disorders such as Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, MS, and TBI, requiring specialist neuropsychiatry input. Presenting with a range of physical, cognitive, communication, and emotional problems as well as challenging behaviours, we aim to provide a secure and low stimulus environment suitable for comprehensive assessments including nursing, medical, psychology, OT, physio, SALT, and dietetics.
Successful applicants must have a strong commitment to the delivery of high-quality, safe patient care and an interest in working within neurological care in a challenging but rewarding environment.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
* Post registration clinical experience
* Successfully completed the OSCE exam
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of working with service users with complex mental health/learning disability needs
* Clinical Supervision
* Mental Health/Learning Disabilities needs
Skills and Competencies
* Good interpersonal and communication skills
* Collaborative working
* Time Management
Please ensure to check out all of the supporting documents linked to this advert for useful information about working for us.
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.
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