Staff Nurse

About

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust is recruiting Band 5 Staff Nurses, including newly qualified nursing preceptees, for acute inpatient mental health services. The role provides person-centred assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of care, and is available on a permanent full-time, part-time and flexible-working basis. The advert states that the role meets the minimum UK Visas and Immigration requirements for sponsorship, but applicants must hold current UK professional registration. Job grade: Band 5 Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year Terms of service: Permanent Number of posts: 12x Full Time 37.5 hours per week; 1x Part Time 36 hours per week Reference: C9378-W1575 Duty station: Kendray Hospital, Barnsley; Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield; Calderdale Royal Hospital, Halifax; The Priestly Unit, Dewsbury

How to apply

Apply online through the official advert page on NHS Jobs. The advert asks applicants using AI to enhance their application to disclose this in the NHS Jobs application form.

Responsibilities

• To contribute to an integrated team of staff in providing a high quality of care and treatment both on an individual basis and with a purposeful group programme within a core facility.
• Have an understanding of and a commitment to the philosophy mental health or learning disability services and the local service provision.
• Be responsible and accountable for the Assessment, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of treatment and care for defined service users within the pathway.
• Utilise core nursing / specialist skills within the role of primary nurse.
• Contribute specific professional support and advice to the team, service users and carers.
• Work in partnership with other teams within and outside of the organisation.
• Oversee and support junior members of staff in implementing planned treatment and care.
• Support the Management Team in carrying out their duties.
• To work flexibly to cover shifts to provide a 365 day per year service.
• Act as shift co-ordinator as required and to participate in the planning and co-ordinating of the shift to ensure smooth and effective running of the service and role model best practice.
• Co-ordinate and lead the team to make effective use of team skills to provide the best possible standards of care and treatment / interventions.
• To prioritise workload in keeping with the team and service objectives.
• Take full involvement as a primary nurse by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating treatment / care for named service users.
• To actively participate and contribute to service users reviews, ward rounds, meetings as applicable.
• To provide care and specific interventions for other service users as allocated on a daily basis, and directly in accordance with their written care plan.

Qualifications

• Involvement in a systematic approach to care: Assessment, care planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Awareness of the Care Programme Approach.
• Working with individuals who have mental health needs or working with people with a learning disability.
• Knowledge of key worker/primary nurse system.
• Working as a member of a multi-disciplinary team/working with other disciplines.
• Knowledge of collaborative working within a recovery based model of intervention.
• Clinical/Professional Supervision.
• Commitment to adopt the Trusts core Values and Behavioural standards.
• Enthusiasm.
• Motivated to work in chosen speciality.
• Professionalism.
• Resourcefulness.
• Flexible attitude.
• Common sense approach.
• Initiative, tact and diplomacy.