Senior Staff Nurse
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Job overview
Red Kite View is a £20million young people’s mental health inpatient hospital. We are recruiting to continue delivering good quality care to children and young people’s mental health services (CYPMHS) - a term for all services that work with children and young people who have difficulties with their mental health or wellbeing.These services are also known as children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
The service is part of Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and is based in Armley, less than 3 miles from Leeds City Centre. It will provide inpatient care and support to families and young people from across West Yorkshire. It marks the start of an exciting new chapter in the provision of NHS services to young people living with mental health needs and their families.Red Kite View will allow you to work in a spacious, therapeutic environment that has been designed in consultation with staff and young people using the current services. This is your chance to be a part of something new, right from the very beginning.
The service opened in January 2022 and offers a welcoming, therapeutic environment to support young people aged from 13 up to 18 years of age who need the support of an inpatient service in their journey to recovery.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of a multi-skilled, experienced, motivated and creative service, you will be responsible for contributing to the efficient day to day delivery of effective clinical care and risk management of the young people.
You will also participate in our operational manager rota, offering support to the shift coordinator and managing referrals and access assessments for the region.
You will have great interpersonal skills and be able to establish a professional working relationship with young people and families. You will be cool in a crisis; it's a busy clinical area and we manage lots of risk-taking behaviour and violence and aggression.It is a demanding yet rewarding role.
This is a senior nursing position so you will be keen to develop from a leadership perspective, be able to support junior staff and learners, be able to offer clinical supervision and training as well as positive role modelling.
Your values are essential to this role; we are looking for someone who genuinely wants to make a lasting impact on young people, who insists on doing things with care and diligence and is able to think on their feet.
The CAMHS inpatient unit structure has been newly designed, specifically to enable and encourage progression; your development is vital to the service.
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that any individual requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Red Kite View supports young people experiencing significant psychiatric, psychological or emotional problems that are causing them interpersonal, educational and social functioning problems. The team works with a huge range of other services across West Yorkshire supporting young peoples’ mental health including the NHS, local authorities and third sector providers.
Red Kite View has 22 beds (16 in Skylark Ward GAU and 6 in Lapwing Ward PICU), and is staffed by a dedicated multi-disciplinary team including nurses, psychiatrists, teachers, clinical psychologists, and a wide range of allied health professionals and non-clinical support staff.The service team works closely with the young person’s CYPMHS Community team during their stay at Red Kite View.
Young people will come to Red Kite View as informal or detained patients, admitted under the Mental Health Act (1983) or subject to other court orders. Whatever the situation of the young person they will be offered assessment, treatment and support in one of our two wards.We manage crisis and high risk situations using strategies and interventions embedded within our clinical models. Both wards offer light, modern facilities including spacious, comfortable and private en-suite bedrooms.
We're looking to attract a registered nurse from any branch of nursing with experience ideally in CAMHS or acute inpatient services to join our established and effective multidisciplinary team.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Nurse
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of managing referrals and access assessments
Experience/knowledge
Essential criteria- Understanding of and ability to effectively implement the Mental Health Act and DoLS as relevant to service.
Skills
Essential criteria- Able to support junior staff and learners, be able to offer clinical supervision and training as well as positive role modelling.
Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.
The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work.Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.
Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.
Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.
LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.
We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.
In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.
If you have not received any communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.
Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.