Job summary
- Main area
- LD & A
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 444-6154447A-RM
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Brooklands
- Town
- Marston Green
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse - Band 5
NHS AfC: Band 5
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.
PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
Please check your emails, including junk and spam folders, regularly throughout the process of your application for any notifications from the Recruitment Team. If you have any queries regarding your application please phone the Partnership Trust Recruitment Department.
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Job overview
Staff nurse – Band 5
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, Brooklands Hospital
Do you want to be part of an amazing team who are passionate about helping those with Learning Disabilities and Autism to progress through their treatment pathways?
We are currently seeking to recruit several staff nurses to join us in delivering high quality, compassionate care, and support within our services at Brooklands Hospital.
Brooklands Hospital provides specialist inpatient assessment and treatment for adults and children with a learning disability, including adult medium and low secure units. Solihull Community Learning Disability Team are also based here.
Main duties of the job
Malvern Unit - Male Low Secure 13 bedded unit.
The Malvern Unit is for adults aged 18 years or over who have a learning disability, who have a history of criminal offending, have been in the prison system or detained under the Mental Health Act.
The Secure Services provides specialist assessment, treatment and where appropriate intensive rehabilitation services, for offenders with a learning disability in medium and low secure placements on the Brooklands site.
Each patient has their own bedroom, there are communal spaces, including a lounge, a therapy room, where patients can take part in arts and crafts, a therapy kitchen, and outside space to enjoy games and sports in and an outdoor gym.
Staff on Malvern are encouraged to develop in their careers with excellent training opportunities being available within the trust .
Working for our organisation
Onsite there is a full range of other professionals to enable full multi-disciplinary team working – these include :
Practice Nurses
Psychiatrists
Speech and language therapists
Dietician
Occupational Therapists
Psychology
Activity workers
The candidates should possess a degree in Learning Disability or Mental Health nursing. In return, Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust offers:
- Generous annual leave entitlement (35 days on appointment to the NHS)
- NHS pension scheme
- NHS discount scheme
- Death in service payment
- Free parking
- Free uniform
- Indemnity insurance cover
- Health care benefits – COPE/wellbeing days
- Internal / external CPD and training opportunities
- Opportunity to broaden experience with other services on site (forensics, children, and young people services.
- Preceptorship/mentoring/budding suppor
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Take on the role of nurse in charge daily or when delegated by the Unit Manager or Deputy and prioritise competing demands and the workload of other staff across the service including the accountability for all patient care and the wellbeing of staff and visitors to the unit.
The post holder will be appointed to work within an inpatient environment at Brooklands Hospital and will be accountable to the unit manager.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in implementing planned packages of care from admission through to discharge within a therapeutic environment.
The post holder will be expected to participate in and facilitate the various group activities that occur on the ward as part of the inpatient treatment programme and will act as named nurse to allocated patients.
Whilst full induction and training will be given, due to the specialist nature of the services it is crucial that staff have a particular interest in this patient group.
The post holder is required to possess and constantly update skills which enable them to provide services to this specialist group of patients
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Nursing qualification Learning Disability: RNMH, RNLD OR Nursing qualification Mental Health: RMN, RNMH Adult Nursing qualification: RGN
Experience
Essential criteria
- A range of experience of working with people with a mental disorder
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
- Jeanette Levesley
- Job title
- Unit Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01213294906
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