Staff Nurse | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Do you enjoy working in a compassionate environment, want to learn and develop new skills, enjoy working with a variety of service users, all with very different needs and work with people in crisis to help them with their recovery, then this job is for you!

• Act as named nurse / key worker for an identified group of service users ensuring the assessment, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
• To co-produce collaborative care plans for service users and undertake service users’ activities as appropriate ensuring a high standard of care.
• Adhere to appropriate policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Liaise with the wider multidisciplinary team to enhance the standard of care service users receive.
• Engage in the management of de-escalation in conflict situations through adherence to Prevention Management of Violence and Aggression (PMVA) techniques.
• Undertake gate keeping assessments for admission to PICU in the absence of the Clinical Pathway Team
• Assist the team to ensure the management of a safe clinical environment by undertaking ward safety checks
• Carry out observations on patients and document them in line with trust policy
• To safely administer controlled drugs and all other medication in accordance with Medicines’ Management Policy and NMC guidance.
• Act as Shift Leader ensuring the smooth running of the ward area and participating in an effective hand over period, ensuring good communications at all times.
• Promote a safe environment in line with clinical risk assessments and to ensure all incidents are reported electronically.
• Ensure that clinical practice is line with least restrictive principles.

Our team provides short-term intensive assessment, treatment, and support to Service Users, who maybe experiencing a mental health crisis, and often present with a variety of complex mental health needs.

To maximise Service User recovery, the teams will be working in a trauma informed way and utilising the RAID model of care. Our aim is to work in the least restrictive way as possible whilst maintaining patient safety.

• To act as the named nurse with responsibility for the overall care of an identified group of Service Users.
• To regularly act as shift leader ensuring the smooth running of the clinical area and best utilisation of resources available, with support from other senior staff.
• The post holder will be responsible for keeping professionally updated in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council requirements and for participating in clinical reflection through

• The post holder will be accountable for their behaviour on duty and will be responsible for reporting anything untoward to a senior member of staff

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Mar 2025