Job overview
Are you a Registered Mental Health Nurse, with an experience of leading and managing team or an aspiring leader ready to take on leadership and management responsibilities and motivated by the prospect of working with a supportive and dynamic team?
Opal ward is a 20 bedded ward for those who have enduring mental illnesses, often with co-morbidities, which require rehabilitation, acquisition and maintenance of everyday life skills to promote recovery and social inclusion.
Whatever the challenges, we believe in opportunities and there is always an opportunity for hardworking, proactive, kind and compassionate clinicians here. Within this everyday leadership role, your responsibilities will allow you to plan & coordinate the day, to ensure safety and to build a team spirit. Providing excellent care and governance is a fundamental part of what we do, and in this role, you will maintain the standards by supporting and nurturing the team.
What can you expect from us? You will have a structured induction and ongoing support from managers and senior clinicians. We can offer flexibility around working hours and patterns. If you want to progress clinically, in management or both – you will have access to programmes and pathways to support your career progression
Main duties of the job
1. Engage with clients and families to build positive working relationships, ensuring their needs and wishes are considered in the acute inpatient setting.
2. Conduct systematic and comprehensive assessments of client needs, develop care plans within the CPA framework, and facilitate carer support plans.
3. Develop and review risk management plans, identifying opportunities for positive risk-taking in collaboration with clients, ward teams, and carers.
4. Work with clients and their families on medication management, symptom management, and relapse prevention.
5. Coordinate and implement care plans, evaluate their effectiveness, and work closely with community services and multidisciplinary teams to support client recovery.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
6. Excellent opportunities for career progression
7. Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
8. 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
9. NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
10. Competitive pension scheme
11. Lease car scheme
12. Cycle to work scheme
13. Employee Assistance Programme
14. Mental Health First Aiders
15. Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
16. Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
17. Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Learning Disability Nurse
18. Ability to communicate with a high level of effectiveness both verbally and in writing
19. Ability to work effectively in acute situations in order to maintain the safety of staff and patients.
Desirable criteria
20. Have experience in a leadership and management role
21. Has previous experience in working as a qualified nurse in a mental health care setting
22. Has experience of facilitating teaching/learning sessions with junior staff
23. Experience of supporting student nurses as a practice supervisor and/or assessor
Knowledge
Essential criteria
24. Theoretical knowledge of MHA legislation including the Mental Health Act 1983
25. Knowledge of safeguarding children and adults policy
26. Knowledge of neurodiversity and the impacts experienced by neurodiverse patients when admitted to mental health hospitals
27. Understands and works effectively within the principles of and structures for clinical governance
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
28. Effective leadership and motivational skills
29. Excellent communication and presentational skills
30. Able to take direction, instruction and appropriately delegate tasks to colleagues.
31. Able to organise and prioritise own time effectively.
32. Works effectively as part of MDT
33. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
34. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
35. We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
36. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
37. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
38. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
39. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
40. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing