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Location: Torquay, tq2 7aa
Salary: £29970.00 to £36483.00
Date posted: 7th March 2025
Closing date: 23rd March 2025
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Job Description:
We are seeking a Band 5 Mental Health Nurse to join us on Haytor ward. This is an exciting opportunity for both newly qualified nurses, who would be supported through our preceptorship programme, and those nurses that have been qualified for a period of time but would like to expand their experience.
Haytor Ward is a 16 bedded acute ward providing care for adults with mental health needs. Haytor is co-located with Salus and Beech ward within the South Devon and Torbay Mental Health Centre within the Torbay General Hospital site. This mental health centre incorporates adult inpatient wards, older adults inpatient ward, a psychiatric liaison service, outpatient services and Home Treatment Team base.
You will quickly become part of a friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary team where you will be using your skills and experience to support those in our care on the road to recovery.
We encourage you to learn, develop and grow. For newly qualified staff we have a well-established preceptorship programme which links into our wider multidisciplinary CPD programme. Those looking to gain further experience will be supported in maintaining professional links, through involvement in regular profession-specific CPD opportunities.
In order to support you we offer a robust supervision framework and have clear clinical and leadership development programmes.
Main duties of the job:
* To assess care needs, develop, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
* To provide named nurse role to people who use our service.
* To promote and improve quality of service provided.
* To manage the unit in the absence of Ward Manager / Team Leader.
* To participate in the internal rotation system including weekend working.
* To be a proactive, skilled member of the ward Multi-Disciplinary team.
* To have knowledge and experience of providing individual and group clinical/therapy work.
* To demonstrate effective leadership and assist with providing advice and guidance to non-qualified staff and students.
* To be responsible for the provision and maintenance of effective therapeutic relationships, which at all times acknowledges the rights, personal dignity and encourages opportunity for growth and development of the person using this service.
About Us:
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.
Our values: We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trust's core values.
Experience:
* Experience of Adult and/or Older Persons mental health nursing and the nursing process.
Essential Skills and Abilities:
* Excellent verbal and written skills.
* Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users, carers and other professional bodies.
* Excellent IT skills.
* Ability to engage in and lead (when required) MDT meetings.
* Ability to assess situations, make decisions, co-ordinate and organise appropriate responses.
* Have an awareness and ability to maintain personal boundaries.
* Able to risk assess and plan and implement all aspects of nursing skills.
* To demonstrate effective leadership skills, promote effective role model across the ward environment.
* To work to the Trust Data Protection and Confidentiality guidance/policy.
* Be able to work as part of a team.
* Willingness to develop self.
Qualifications:
* RMN/ Registered Nurse (Mental Health) with current registration.
Knowledge:
* Knowledge of ordering, storing and administering required medications.
* Knowledge of possible side effects of medication.
* Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 (including 2007 updates).
* Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act & Deprivation of Liberty safeguards.
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer details:
Employer name: Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Address: Haytor ward, Torbay Hospital, Lawes Bridge, Torquay, tq2 7aa
Employer's website: https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/
Contact Information:
Ward manager: Sophie Hoare
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