Job summary
- Main area
- Forensic Learning Disabilities Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 367-LD&F-8229-A
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Broadland Clinic, Little Plumstead Hospital , Hospital Road , Norwich NR13 5EW
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum, pro rata + 5% of basic salary (min £1,192 max £2,011)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Forensic LD/MH Staff Nurse + £6,000 Bonus
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Would you like to join an innovative organisation committed to ensuring delivery of the best care by the best people? We have exciting opportunities for a Band 5 Nurse at Broadland Clinic our Norfolk-based Medium Secure Units for people with learning disabilities. If making a difference to the lives of others motivates and inspires you, join us to become part of something truly amazing.
This is the perfect opportunity for Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Nurses seeking a new challenge in a dynamic and rewarding environment where no two days are the same. Working hours will involve shifts, including some nights, weekends and bank holidays.
Staff benefits include 27 days annual leave, access to one of the UK's best pension schemes, flexible working options, childcare support, a one-year preceptorship programme for newly registered nurses, CPD opportunities, subsidised gym membership, and so much more.
Values-Based Screener: At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust, we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered, please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find a link for below. When you have finished, you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and will be required when you submit your application form.
Main duties of the job
The Role: On a day-to-day basis, the role will involve assessing, planning and implementing evidence-based care, working as part of a multi-disciplinary clinical team, and being the named nurse for an identified group of service users. The post-holder will also help run shifts and assist the team leader, as well as supporting more junior members of the team.
The Ideal Candidate: Our service-users are our number one priority, so we need people who are committed to supporting others, even at more challenging times. Excellent communication, interpersonal, organisational and team-working skills are essential for this role, as well as the ability to use initiative and act in a calm manner. The successful candidate will also need to reflect the Trust’s key values by being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional at all times.
Qualifications And Training: The successful candidate must have RNMH/RNLD/RMN/RGN and be registered with the NMC. Previous relevant experience is desirable but not essential as we offer training to ensure staff are skilled to the highest standards and feel confident in their ability to do the job well. The Trust’s one-year preceptorship programme allows newly registered nurses to develop their clinical, communication and leadership skills within a structured framework of support and development.
“The Trust are embedding a Trauma Informed Approach within all of our inpatients units and that you will be part of this exciting development”.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on…
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post-holder will:
· Actively fulfil the role of Named Nurse for an identified group of service-users, providing a holistic approach to assessment, treatment, review and management of packages of care.
· Ensure the statutory requirements of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act are observed and applied at all times.
· Form effective working relationships with all parties and work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver quality person-centred care.
· Carry out clinical nursing procedures/techniques in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Trust, and promote evidence-based clinical standards of practice.
· Review and communicate service-users’ risk assessments and management care plans in accordance with Trust policy, ensuring service-user involvement throughout.
· Assist in the day-to-day smooth running of the unit, leading a nursing team and providing clinical supervision to junior staff as required.
· Work with, talk to and listen to service users, carers and families, and encourage their participation in the recovery process.
· Treat all colleagues, service-users, carers and relatives with dignity and respect, and recognise and promote all aspects of cultural diversity.
· Demonstrate de-escalation skills to manage aggression exhibited by service users, using approved physical intervention techniques as necessary.
· Demonstrate an on-going commitment to continuing professional, and service, development.
· Recognise own limitations and engage in reflective practice.
· Be compassionate and open-minded.
· Reflect the Trust’s values by behaving in a manner that is welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional.
For further details about the role and responsibilities, and for the Person Specification, please download the attached JD&PS document.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential criteria
- RNMH/RNLD/RMN
- ENB 998/Mentorship
- Completion of management training
- NMC
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Leadership and motivational skills
- Organisational skills and the ability to work effectively within a management structure
- Communication skills – written, verbal and non-verbal
- IT skills, in particular MS word
- Provision of effective clinical supervision
- Experience of assessing and managing clinical risk
- Experience in care planning
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Recognises and reflects on barriers to effective communication, modifying communication in response
- De-escalation in managing verbal aggression of disturbed service users
- Keeps accurate and complete records and communication consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
- Demonstrate good verbal presentation skills.
- Ability to chair meetings effectively
- Excellent communicator
ANALYTICAL SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate good decisionmaking skills
- Flexible and responsive approach to care
- Knowledge and ability to positively manage change.
- Ability to identify and manage changes to clinical risks.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chris Hobley
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603711180
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