Staff NurseNHS

Job summary

We are pleased to offer an exciting full-time opportunity for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join Summers View, a dynamic Rehab unit specialising in complex mental health needs.

Summersview is a 10 bed mental health rehabilitation unit. The team specialises in supporting people with enduring psychosis through their recovery journey, helping them to reach their optimum & their goals.

The unit has a full MDT which strives to deliver high quality compassionate care that promotes independence and recovery for people with Mental Health needs.

The team works closely with the complex care team & community rehabilitation team based at Hilda Johnson House, ensuring that service users are able to access a step up / step down model to their care and recovery, with the ultimate goal of least restrictive care in their local community.

***PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY***

Main duties of the job

You will be able to demonstrate excellent assessment and risk management plans, be able to demonstrate your ability to work as a team player, promote the rights of individuals to receive care that addresses their need in the community. Therefore, good communication skills are essential to the role, the role demands the ability to problem solve and find creative means of addressing individual's needs. An opportunity for a mental health nurse to work in a pragmatic way to maintain patient's safety in the community.

Job description

The unit will offer a full induction package with a supernumerary period. Training and competencies within the specialities and on-going support and professional development will be tailored to meet your individual needs; individual CPD advice is available from our Practice Education Team. The CPD offer includes the option to rotate within the Trust to widen your breadth of experience, skills and knowledge.

On joining the Trust you will have access to our Preceptorship Programme to enable a smooth transition into your new role.

We are keen to show you any of our services and provide an opportunity to meet some team members, if you would like to arrange an informal visit prior to making an application please call Sandra Wright details below. Otherwise please submit your application and we guarantee an interview for all Qualified practitioners with relevant mental health experience.

In return we offer;

A competitive progressive salary plus enhancements for unsociable hours and flexible working hours.

We cover the cost of your DBS Check (£44)

Comprehensive induction and on-going training and development (weekly CPD planned which includes topics such as working successfully with personality disorder; what are the functions of self-harm; coproducing plans with service users; dementia care awareness and interventions to name a few)

Competitive staff benefits such as weekly offers and discounts

Individual Personal Development Plan and Career Progression

Excellent pension scheme available

27- 33 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays (pro rata)

About us

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.