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Staff Nurse

Employer
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Nottingham
Salary
£27,055 to £32,934 a year per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Closing date
3 Oct 2022

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Profession
Nurse
Grade
Band 5
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
These posts are subject to National NHS T&Cs, paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during nights, weekends and bank holidays and we offer a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 to new starters with the Trust in this role (payable in instalments over a 2 year period)

Are you an experienced Nurse looking for a rewarding role, maybe the next step in your career ?

If you are looking to join an energetic and vibrant organisation that truly makes a difference to people's lives daily, we would like to hear from you. We are looking for a staff nurse to join our team. Whether you're coming from an NHS or private hospital we'll give you time to use your skills - and help you build a fulfilling career. Our focus always is on ensuring that our Service Users receive high quality treatment during the day

Main duties of the job

As an LD Registered Nurse you will have experience gained in a similar environment and experience in intellectual disabilities and planning activities.

Your ability to solve problems and think both literally and laterally will enable you to support others in the team. We encourage sharing of best practice across our service to develop your skills and take advantage of our excellent clinical leadership knowledge.

Managing a shift and leading a staff team

Participating in audits

Offering support to staff informally and through supervisions and appraisals

Supporting students and TNA's

Named Nurse to Service Users

Risk assessment of environment and service user need.

Assessing, planning and evaluation of care

Formulation of Positive behaviour Support Plans

Monitoring health conditions, administering medication, monitoring their effectiveness and raising concerns if necessary

Planning and co-ordinating Discovery Awareness Sessions

Liaising with family and carers

Coordinating MDT meetings, assessments and making appropriate referrals

Organising a planned transition to future day activities for each person.

About us

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?
Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

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Job description
Job responsibilities

To assess plan implement, promote and evaluate safe care in collaboration with the patients diverse needs their carers and other professionals

To be professional and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of Service Users on caseload, ensuring high standards of clinical care, utilise core OT /nursing skills.

To undertake a comprehensive assessment of Service Users, including those with complex pathologies, and use investigative and analytical skills to formulate holistic intervention plans. Clinical reasoning is utilised to evaluate a wide range of treatment skills and options in order to formulate a specialist programme of care. Service Users may include those with dual diagnosis, dysphagia, and autistic spectrum disorder, profound and multiple Intellectual Disabilities, and challenging behaviours.

In conjunction with other team members to contribute to strengthening links between specialists learning Disability Services and generic hospitals services, to enable individuals with learning disability to receive appropriate and timely service in the acute setting.

To lead on therapy sessions both individual programs and groups as required

Please refer to the job description for a full range of roles and responsibilities.

Person Specification
Skills
Essential
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Good written/oral communication skills
  • Diplomatic, caring & sympathetic
  • Ability to be flexible and handle conflict issues
  • Good skills in assessment intervention and evaluation of patients nursing care
  • IT skills

Experience
Essential
  • Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding

Desirable
  • Specialist and area specific experience

Knowledge
Essential
  • Knowledge and understanding of current legislation and understanding of clinical risk assessments
  • Knowledge of the nursing 6 c's

Desirable
  • Awareness of national and local issues impacting of nursing care

Qualifications
Essential
  • Professional Qualification (Mental Health/Learning Disabilities/General) to degree level or equivalent
  • Maintains current registration with the NMC

Desirable
  • Demonstrate continued professional development to maintain professional registration

Contractual Requirements
Essential
  • A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.


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