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Avondale are looking to recruit a Band 5 Nurse to join an established Multi-Disciplinary Team. Avondale is a 14 bedded mixed assessment unit which offers service users intensive, high quality, person-centred interventions and assessment utilising a trauma informed model/approach. This aids decisions to provide further support in the community or signpost to treatment units for further intervention.

The candidate will be expected to provide supervision to junior staff across the service and have experience of offering evidence-based, value recovery-focused interventions that facilitate recovery.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Charge Nurse, the post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, co-ordinating with psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, health care assistants and allied professionals, to help individuals with specific symptoms of mental illness, and supporting them to overcome challenges.

With a passion for positive change, the successful applicant will prepare, develop and maintain individualised patient records, producing care plans and risk assessments, with an aim to maximise care and assist people to live productive lives. Interacting with patients' families and other services is a key component of the role, offering education, information and advocacy.

Excellent observational skills are required to assess patients, along with the ability to stay calm and think quickly in challenging circumstances. Applicants will also be required to administer medications and facilitate treatment options, monitoring results, recording and escalating any concerns in a timely manner.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Whether this is your first role or you are looking to move into a more senior position or you are returning to practice we know that your career development and the support that you receive is important. Find out about nursing careers by downloading our Destination Humber booklet.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Willingness to undertake and complete preceptorship facilitating the transition for newly qualified nurse booklet and core competency development programme.
• Appropriate Knowledge and experience of working in a Mental health setting

Desirable

• Evidence of specialist practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential

• Part III or 13 of NMC live register
• A broad understanding of relevant Policy, legislation and their application to clinical and service area
• Standard IT skills

Desirable

• Full understanding of relevant policy, drivers and their application to clinical and service area

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Able to demonstrate effective interpersonal/communication skills
• Evidence of good time management skills
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity

Desirable

• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures.

Employer details

Employer name

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Avondale, Miranda House

Gladstone Street

Hull

HU3 2RT

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