Staff Nurse

Job overview

We are currently looking to recruit a highly motivated Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our expanding team of nurses following investment and recent promotions. We have recently recruited nurses awarded excellent during their nurse training.

We are keen to gain a good skills mix within the teams and invite applications from both recently qualified nurses, for whom we will support through preceptorship in the first year of joining, as well as experienced Staff Nurses who want to gain new skills and career progression prospects.

Interviews will be held face to face.

The successful applicant will have contact with patients/service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

*Please note that the use of AI is monitored and if used in your application must be declared*

Main duties of the job

To become part of our team and join us on our journey you will need to demonstrate your enthusiasm and motivation for providing care to a challenging service user group.

You will receive access to training through a dedicated in house team that has staff development at the forefront.

The role will provide you with the opportunity to gain experience of undertaking appraisals, shift co-ordination and the potential to lead on an area of special interest related to acute admission and care.

We seek nurses who are able or have the potential to lead a team of nurses towards the goal of high quality care.

You will work as part of a team on one of our two wards on rotational shift patterns which includes early, late and night shifts. The vacancies allow for a range of competencies as identified within the AFC Knowledge and Skills Framework.

As part of one of the largest mental health trusts in the country you will benefit from being part of a wide network of skills, knowledge and professionals with wide opportunities for career development at all levels within Milton Keynes and the rest of the CNWL Trust.

Working for our organisation

We are passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

• To co-ordinate and provide care and treatment to an identified group of patients without direct supervision.
• Take responsibility for the development and delivery of evidence-based nursing practice, ensuring that it supports and reflects service user individual needs.
• Contribute to the development of high quality evidence based in-patient services in a changing health care environment.
• Contribute towards ensuring that the ward functions as an integral part of Mental Health Services.
• Effective communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• To practice within professional guidelines and promote professional practice in the clinical setting.
• To ensure continuous professional development through regular supervision, training and appraisal.

For further details about this post please see attached job description

Person specification

Qualifications

• UK NMC Registered Nurse (Mental Health) OR Registered Nurse (Learning Difficulty) OR Registered Nurse (Adult)

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care, minimising clinical risk and reducing restrictive practices
• To have knowledge of Mental Health presentations and appropriate interventions.
• Awareness of NMC Code of Conduct Current and developments in nursing care.
• Awareness of supervision and reflective practices
• Knowledge of risk management and how to plan care to account for risk

Experience

• Experience of working with people with mental health problems/ learning disabilities
• Managing challenging and aggressive behavior

• Experience of providing individualized and culturally sensitive care
• Working within a multidisciplinary team environment

Other

• Physically able to undertake relevant training for service area, i.e. Physical Intervention Training
• Able to work a rotational shift pattern

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.

If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.