Registered Nurse - Swale Ward Personality Disorder Forensic Division
NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area: Secure services
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full time/Part time)
Job ref: 338-6914482-25
Site: Swale Ward, Humber Centre for Forensic Psychiatry
Town: Willerby
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 03/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse to join our well-established team. Swale Ward is a 15-bedded Personality Disorder unit.
The post offers the successful candidate a unique opportunity to develop their knowledge and experience of specialist forensic pathways all under one roof.
The team is forward-thinking and promotes a psychological and trauma-informed approach with a focus upon a relational model of security. The post requires covering a range of shifts including long days, night shifts, weekends, and bank holidays.
Main duties of the job
You will be involved in providing a safe, nurturing, and therapeutic environment for the service users. You will work within the nursing team and closely with the MDT.
Your responsibilities will include acting as care coordinator to service users, participating in MDTs, CPAs, and mental health tribunals, administering prescribed medication, and supporting patients in managing their mental and physical health conditions.
All successful candidates will be offered a comprehensive and structured development package, including clinical and professional development. Clinical supervision and facilitated reflective practice are key elements of our practice.
The service operates a shift model of long days and night shifts across a 7-day period.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website.
We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We recognize the positive value of diversity and promote equality while challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts, including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details regarding this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Part III or 13 of NMC live register
* Degree or equivalent knowledge/experiential learning in either nursing, mental health, learning disability or related area
* Willingness to undertake mentorship training and responsibilities
* A broad understanding of relevant policy, legislation drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
* An understanding of relevant clinical practice/standards within identified clinical area
* Be on the live register for mentors
* Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
* Evidence of current CPD/formal qualifications at an advanced level e.g. degree or post-graduate level or equivalent knowledge/experiential learning
* Full understanding of relevant policy, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. NSF, Social Inclusion
* Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
Experience
* Willingness to undertake and complete preceptorship; facilitating the transition for newly qualified nurse booklet and core competency development programme.
* Appropriate knowledge/experience of working in mental health/learning disability clinical practice areas
* Understanding of caseload management and care coordination responsibilities
* Evidence of working in secure services
* Successful completion of preceptorship
* Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care
* Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
* Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
* Act as Care Programme Approach (CPA) coordinator
Skills and Competencies
* Evidence of good time management skills
* Awareness of leadership/management skills and qualities
* Ability to manage daily operations and maintain a safe working environment
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6-month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trust's geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
If you require sponsorship to work in the UK, check you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system online. Not all jobs we advertise are eligible for sponsorship.
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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