Specialist Nurse

Job summary

Do you enjoy a challenge? Are you an experienced band 5 or an existing Band 6 RMN/RMLD with a passion for promoting recovery?

Westlands Unit are looking to recruit a Band 6 Specialist Nurse to joint our established multi-disciplinary team.

Westlands is an 18 bedded, female treatment unit which offers service users intensive, high quality, person centred interventions, assessment and treatment, utilising a trauma informed model and approach.

The successful candidate must be committed, motivated and have an empathetic and understanding approach to the people who access our service. They need to have an appropriate level of self-awareness and the ability to utilise their initiative when working with often complex and challenging situations.

The candidate will also be expected to provide senior leadership and supervision to junior staff across the service and therefore would benefit from having a high level of clinical knowledge and experience of offering value based, value recovery-focused interventions that facilitate recovery.

The successful candidate will be given regular supervision, guidance and support. There will be opportunities for further development and training.

Main duties of the job

Westlands is an 18 bedded, female unit providing holistic treatment interventions for people experiencing increased mental health difficulties.

As part of the forever adapting role the successful candidate will be required to:

• Provide and receive routine information requiring reassurance, empathy and de-escalation skills.
• Demonstrate good interpersonal skills when managing individuals with complex needs.
• To support patients throughout their admission including supporting individuals during their crisis period.
• To help facilitate therapeutic intervention and distraction techniques for our service users.
• To work effectively as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
• To support the management team in providing clinical and professional leadership to nurses within own area of responsibility.
• To support the team with the implementation of policy, protocol, service/practice development and change within own area of responsibility.
• To continue to demonstrate specialist clinical skills in practice and provide support/advice i.e. service development and the delivery of care, in partnership with service users, carers, staff, managers and other agencies.
• To support the leadership team in completing AUDITS.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification. Any queries please feel free to e-mail [email protected]

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with adults with a learning disability with complex needs.

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held, within mental health services

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential

• Part III or 13 of NMC live register
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students

Desirable

• Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication /planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility.
• Leadership training/qualification/experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Avondale Clinical Decisions Unit

Miranda House, Gladstone Street

Hull

HU3 2RT

Employer's website

https://www.humber.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)