Rollesby ward is a female Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit based at Hellesdon Hospital. Working with women experiencing an acute episode requiring additional support from a psychiatric unit. Rollesby ward has an onsite gym, ADL kitchen and promotes a wider use of holistic therapeutic approaches to nursing.
As a Band 4 Practitioner, you would form part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), co-working cases with other clinicians in the team and providing individualised, holistic care to people in the service.
Treatment is provided by a multidisciplinary team consisting of clinicians with overlapping clinical skills and knowledge.
Main duties of the job
You will be part of a multidisciplinary team providing a high level of care for young people with eating disorders. Therefore, excellent interpersonal communication and organisational skills are required.
You will need to be confident while also offering service users support, showing respect and compassion to the service user, their family, and carers. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and providing excellent care under the supervision of a registered professional in the team.
You will attend team meetings with the MDT and update on the progress of young people in the service and review their care and treatment needs.
You will be on the assessment rota and take part in assessing new referrals to the service.
You will monitor the physical health of young people within the service and respond appropriately to any concerns.
You will be arranging and facilitating face-to-face appointments with young people and their families as part of their treatment. You will be expected to keep accurate and detailed documentation and care plans as part of this role.
You may be expected to visit young people in acute hospitals or inpatient units to review them and support planning for discharge to the community.
About us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Benefits included with this role are:
* a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
* career progression
* starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
* NHS discounts and many more.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.
Job responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!
Please don’t hesitate to call us to discuss anything about the team or the roles.
Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Care certificate (or completed within first 12 weeks of start date), or relevant equivalent qualification
* At least 2 years experience in mental health
Experience
* Working within an MDT
* Demonstration of working collaboratively with patients to Care Plan
* Demonstration of clinical competence
Other
* Demonstration of teamwork
* Fitness to undergo PMA
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£26,530 to £29,114 a year gross per annum/ pro rata
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