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Forensic Mental Health Nurse – Thames House – Oxford, Oxford
Client: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Oxford, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 333109c413a8
Job Views: 7
Posted: 18.02.2025
Expiry Date: 04.04.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
We are recruiting for experienced registered Mental Health Nurses to join our Forensic Services ward at Littlemore Mental Health Centre. We are looking for candidates with experience working within mental health wards to join our low secure women’s unit Thames House. This is a 26 bedded forensic unit for women with a diagnosis of mental illness and/or personality disorder. Many of our service users have had experience of the criminal justice system in the past. The ward is split into a 10-bedded high dependency unit (Kestrel) and a 16-bedded lower dependency unit (Kingfisher). Read more about our units.
Thames House is an innovative and dedicated team, where you'll be able to learn psychological models like Attachment Theory, which you will be able to utilise whilst working with some of your patients.
If you think this sounds like a role that would give you the opportunities you are looking for and you have the right skills and values, then we would very much like to hear from you!
We operate a 24/7 service 365 days per year; this role involves working rotating shift patterns including 7-3pm, 1.30pm-9.30pm, 9pm-7.25am and a maximum of one long day within a 4-week period.
This role includes an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum on top of your salary
Main duties of the job
* Organise patient activities, attend therapy sessions with your patients and escort them on therapeutic leave, supporting them to reintegrate into the community and aid their recovery journey.
* Engage proactively with clients and their families/carers/significant others to build positive working alliances.
* Assess needs embracing the wishes of the client in the acute patient setting.
* Make a systematic and comprehensive assessment/re-assessment of client need within the CPA framework to take account of all aspects of the client’s life.
* Develop effective risk management plans, and timely review of the risk management plan identifying opportunities for positive risk taking in conjunction with the client, carers/significant others, and the ward team.
* Undertake a Carer’s Assessment and develop Carer’s care plans.
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:
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
* Competitive pension scheme
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Important: please read before making your application
Please use the supporting statement element of the application form to outline your interest in working in both a mental health and forensics setting. We are looking for candidates who can work as a team, are open to listening and can evidence making decisions with a clear thought process and you should ensure these elements are covered within your statement.
Please also ensure that you answer the following question within your supporting statement:
Why do you want to work at Thames House?
Successful applicants will be invited to attend an Assessment Day on Tuesday 4 March 12.30pm-3.30pm (exact times TBC) at Unipart House in Oxford. The day will involve group activity assessments and individual interviews.
Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to be fully qualified, have already passed your OSCE and have an NMC pin number in order to be considered for this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Current NMC registration
* Qualification in Mental Health Nursing
* Qualification in psychosocial interventions
Knowledge
* Knowledge of MHA 2007
* Knowledge of NSF, Clinical governance, and latest developments in mental health care
Experience
* Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams within mental health
* Experience working within forensic mental health services
We’re advocates of flexible working, offering in many roles a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* 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.
* 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.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
* 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.
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