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Band 5 & 6 RMN **Relocation**

Employer
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Southampton
Salary
£25,655 to £39,027 pa (based on full time hours)
Closing date
2 Jul 2022

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Grade
Band 5
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
This vacancy is based in Southampton and we are looking for Nurses that are willing to relocate to the area. We are able to offer accommodation for the first 3 months and a relocation package of up to £8000. In addition to this if you are successfully recruited you will receive a Golden Hello PAYMENT OF £2500 (does not apply to current Hampshire & Isle of Wight NHS staff)

Are you an exceptional Mental Health Nurse looking fora change in your career path?Are you ready for a new and exciting challenge?If so then we would love to hear from you.

Antelope House is our acute mental health inpatient and psychiatric intensive care unit. Where we offer high quality, recovery focused care to adult with a range of mental health needs. We have 4 wards:
  • Saxon ward, our Adult male acute mental health inpatient ward, accommodates 18 beds (+ 1 emergency bed) with a functional mental illness – such as depression, a personality disorder or schizophrenia. The focus is on supporting Southampton men during the most acute period of their recovery working in partnership with the patient and their family.
  • Hamtun ward, our 10 bedded all male Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). This unit is for those requiring intensive support where their needs cannot be safely met on the acute ward. The male PICU is a Trust resource for all male patients requiring this level of care within the Southern Health footprint. The ethos is short stay intensive support with supported step down to the local area acute ward.
  • Trinity ward, our female adult acute mental health inpatient ward, accommodates 16 beds with a functional mental illness – such as depression, a personality disorder or schizophrenia. The focus is on recovery and supporting female patients from the Southampton area requiring acute inpatient mental health care.
  • Abbey ward, Due to open 2022, Abbey will be the trusts first all-female Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Abbey will accommodate 10 beds and will provide intensive support to ladies in the Southern Health footprint requiring intensive support in an inpatient setting.

As a member of the team, you will support the delivery of responsive, evidence based recovery focused care to the service users in acute mental health crisis. We think working within mental health has to be one of the most rewarding careers to be in. If you are currently a band 5 or 6 RMN looking for the next step and you would like to work where you can make a real difference, there’s no better place to be than Antelope House.

As a staff nurse you will develop, implement and evaluate care plans in conjunction with service users, carers and other professionals ensuring individual needs are met. You will carry out all relevant forms of care and will be designated to take charge of a ward in the absence of a charge nurse. Antelope House operates 24 hour cover therefore, you are required to work shifts which will include nights. There are a variety of shifts available and all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

Like the sound of all the wards at Antelope?

We have designed a rotational programme to enable band 5’s to work in each inpatient setting for a period of 6 months, and our Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit for 3 months each. This will provide you with a programme of specially designed training, support and development to increase your clinical skills, and provide you with the practical skills and experience to function at a band 6 level. After successfully completing your rotation, you will be offered a substantive band 6 post in one of the areas you have worked in (where possible). During this time as with our traditional preceptorship programme successful candidates will have the opportunity to work with the Acute Mental Health team, Patient Flow team and within the Place of Safety Suite.

Our inpatient services operate 24/7 and as such it is expected the successful candidate will be flexible with their working hours. You will also be expected to be able to attend additional training throughout the rotation including mandatory training and local bespoke training.

In addition we will be supporting you to gain a 30 credit module in either leadership or CBT; more information regarding this will be discussed with you at interview.

As a registered professional you will automatically become a member of our Academy of Clinical Excellence (ACE) which has a specific focus on the professional development and career progression of our nurses and Allied Health Professionals. As part of ACE’s commitment to you, our development pathway for band 6’s & band 5's focuses on enhancing your competence and confidence as a senior clinician and leader. As such, you will have access to masters level academic study with our partner universities as well as access to a variety of internal and external leadership programmes, workshops and support tools. The Academy encourages all our registrants to engage with service improvement, research and facilitating learning and a range of opportunities to support these core professional activities is available from ACE. To help you progress your journey with us, you will have access to a ‘Career Navigation’ conversation which will help you explore your career aspirations and make decisions about your career trajectory.

*** Click the video link at the side to find out more about working in our team***

For any clinical enquiries please contact Stephen Keeley (Acute Care Matron) on 07586 422216 or email Stephen.Keeley@Southernhealth.nhs.uk.

Happy to talk flexible working- all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

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