Mental Health Staff Nurse - Adolescent Inpatient Services - Oxford

Job overview

Are you seeking a nursing role in Mental health?

Here at the Highfield Unit, the nursing team are at the heart of the unit and are vital in ensuring that outstanding inpatient care is delivered.

The Highfield Unit Oxford is a state-of-the-art NHS facility providing specialist inpatient services for young people aged 11 to 18 with acute mental health needs. Our team offers a safe and supportive environment while young people are in the most vulnerable stage of their illness, ensuring individualised care for each young person is provided. The work we do, makes a real difference.

As a member of the nursing team you would be supported to work collaboratively with young people and their families in order to build therapeutic relationships along with other professionals involved in their care. Training and supervision is provided to develop individual and group therapeutic work and we pride ourselves on nurturing and supporting our nurses to deliver professional, thoughtful, high quality compassionate nursing care when young people need it the most.

Working alongside a dedicated and proficient multidisciplinary team you will ensure that quality care is planned for and achieved.

You can find more information about the Highfield Unit including a leaflet and video by following this link Highfield Unit - Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

*Previous applicants must be available to attend interviews in person for the young person's interview*

Main duties of the job

We are looking for dedicated nurses with a real commitment and empathy in ensuring that high level care is delivered to our young people in the most acute and vulnerable stages of their illness.

By offering a caring and safe environment for providing holistic family centred care you will be involved in delivering a range of interventions dependent upon clinical need.

We will support you in maintaining and developing your clinical skills to a high standard and provide opportunities to work with a wider team of professionals to provide truly intuitive and creative care that goes beyond just clinical tasks.

We are keen to support all our nurses in developing their own leadership skills to enable them to feel competent at managing shift and team coordination and supervising junior staff as well as students. All nurses at the Highfield Unit are encouraged and have the opportunity to develop and lead upon areas of interest. You will be self-motivated about service improvement and passionate about providing quality and creative care to adolescents.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

At the Trust, there are opportunities to develop your nursing skills at whatever stage you may be; whether this be as a newly qualified nurse wanting to build a solid foundation of knowledge within inpatient mental health care, or for those at a later stage in their career looking for new learning opportunities and challenges. We strive to recruit a variety of nurses from different fields to ensure holistic care is delivered, this includes mental health nurses, learning disability nurses and paediatric nurses.

Reflection within and on practice is an essential part of development, both within groups and on an individual basis. Highfield Unit has a structured weekly timetable of reflective spaces to ensure everyone has access to support and supervision to enhance their abilities.

Providing consistent and robust round the clock inpatient care is vital. The role importantly involves 24 hours, 7 days a week care therefore shift patterns are in place which will include nights, weekends and bank holidays. We understand the important of a work life balance though, and so if you are looking for part time hours or term time only, please get in touch.

Further information is outlined in the full job description but should you wish to discuss your experience and our requirements in more detail prior to making an application please contact our Unit on highfield.unit@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk to arrange a suitable time for a phone call or a site visit.

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.