The closing date is 19th Jan 2025
Job summary
Are you kind, caring and enthusiastic?
Do you like working with and leading people?
Are you able to plan and implement interventions of care?
Trinity Ward is a 16 bedded Female Acute Inpatient Ward serving the Southampton area. We promote nurses to have a powerful voice within MDT with a continuous drive for improvement by staff. There will be support and leadership guidance from a clinical nurse lead and ward manager. Not to mention a well established and supportive team.
Trinity Ward has a reflective culture to enable the team to work in synergy and enhance decision making. All staff are offered bespoke training, ensuring they have the required skills and knowledge to provide the highest standards of care. The ward's ethos focuses on staff's wellbeing and professional development.
To help our staff thrive in their roles, we will offer regular, good quality supervision, appraisals, bespoke training, and development opportunities. On the ward, there will be complex case discussions and reflective practice to aid your professional development, support in decision making, and formulate care plans for complex needs. Additionally, training workshops and team 'ward huddles' will be facilitated, all with the focus to develop and support our staff.
Main duties, tasks & skills required
1. To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care needs of a specific group of service users.
2. To supervise, mentor and teach qualified and unqualified staff, including students.
3. To co-ordinate the patient environment on a shift by shift basis.
4. To co-ordinate care for a specified group of service users.
5. To record all contacts with service users in case notes in line with Southern Health NHS FT record keeping policy.
6. To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives, carers, visitors, staff and others.
7. To ensure that all communication is within the boundaries of client confidentiality and to seek guidance when unsure.
8. To communicate effectively with service users and their relatives/carers, acknowledging barriers to understanding.
9. To communicate effectively within the MDT.
10. To ensure that any information related to a client or other personal safety is communicated immediately to senior team members.
11. To lead the clinical management of a designated group of service users in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care.
12. To ensure that junior staff and students are actively engaged in patient activity.
13. To observe, report and record changes in the service user's physical, mental health and behaviour.
14. To work with the MDT in planning and delivering care.
15. To maintain working knowledge of legislation, policy and guidance pertaining to mental health and learning disabilities.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.
Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trust's community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.
Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.
Job description
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person specificationQualificationsEssential
Registered Mental Health Nurse
Computer skills
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.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
For help with your application, contact:
Alex Cronin
02380835514
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 5
Salary £29970.00 to £36483.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-Time, Full-Time
Reference number
348-AC-7013
Job locations
Antelope House
Brintons Terrace
Southampton
Hampshire
SO14 0YG
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