Main area: Nursing Grade NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (long days / nights)
Job ref: 338-6754926-24-A
Site: Townend Court, Town Hull
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.
Job overview
We are looking for two enthusiastic and highly motivated Registered Learning Disability or Mental Health Nurses to join our evolving Assessment and Treatment in-patient unit at Townend Court.
The successful applicants will join a team of skilled nurses and healthcare assistants who have patient care and Humber Trust values at the core of their practice. Learning Disability services have been changing and continue to evolve to meet the clinical demands of a modern inpatient facility and we are looking for the right candidates to join this team.
The successful candidates will be valued members of a multi-disciplinary team and have the opportunity to develop their own skills in working with patients with complex and challenging needs to achieve measurable and genuine outcomes that are life enhancing for them. The posts offer an excellent and exciting opportunity to develop clinical leadership expertise and will allow scope for personal and professional development within a friendly and supported environment. You will have a good knowledge of current policy drivers and be able to implement research into practice with an understanding of the principles of Valuing People and Transforming Care. Generous Relocation will be offered for this role.
Main duties of the job
Main duties will consist of:
* Leading the shift / delegating tasks
* Managing a caseload
* Undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments and Best Interest Meetings
* Delivering personal cares to patients
* Administration of medication - oral and IM
* Supporting patients to access leave
* Dealing with potential and actual conflict situations which may include the use of trust approved DMI techniques
* Undertaking basic physical observations (NEWS2) and supportive engagements of patients
* Day to day management of the ward
* Undertaking supervision with Healthcare Assistants
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. 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 recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst 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.
Minimum Requirements
* Nursing Degree in Learning Disabilities or Mental Health Nursing
* A broad understanding of relevant policy drivers and their impact on clinical practice, e.g. NSF/Valuing People, Winterbourne and Francis
* An understanding of relevant clinical practice/standards within an identified clinical area
* Basic IT skills
Experience
* Management of caseload/inpatient care
* Evidence of continuing professional development that is relevant to this sphere of nursing care
* Evidence of undertaking competency based development programme following preceptorship
Skills and Competencies
* Excellent verbal communication and listening skills with patients/colleagues/carers
* Effective time management
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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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