Night Nurse Practitioner

Job summary

We are looking for a compassionate, motivated and experienced Night Nurse Practitioner (NNP) to join our dedicated mental health team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in supporting people who use our services, their carers, and multidisciplinary colleagues within a defined local delivery service.

• Night Nurse Practitioners (NNP) play a key role for people who use our services, clinicians and carers within a defined local delivery service.
• To act as a resource for all members of the multi-disciplinary team, providing expert nursing advice concerning all aspects of patient management.
• Effective communication with all colleagues and patients is an integral part of the role.
• To act as gate keepers for access to mental health beds to ensure that the admission criteria/ bed management policy is adhered to.
• To provide professional leadership, role model, mentor and practice educator in response to patient and service demand

Main duties of the job

• Be responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision.
• Provide leadership role model, demonstrating expert knowledge and skill in clinical practice.
• Participate fully in quality assurance initiates.
• Be responsible for specific clinical and managerial projects and undertake all necessary work to complete these, including facilitating meetings, liaising and/or negotiating with other staff.
• To initiate and participate in audit/ research projects.
• Provide site management responsibility.

Job responsibilities

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.