Registered Staff Nurse - Swift Ward

Job overview

Are you a registered Mental Health Nurse?

Do you have NHS experience?

Join an outstanding Mental Health Trust!

We have band 5 vacancies in Inpatients within the Acute & Urgent Care Division!

The successful candidates will:

• be NMC registered
• hold a mental health nursing or learning disabilities nursing qualification
• have NHS experience

if you meet these criteria, we'd love to hear from you!

Our wards are mainly based at Kingfisher Court in Radlett, we have a ward in St Albans (Albany Lodge) and a ward in Stevenage (Aston).

The wards provide mental health services to inpatient service users.  Each ward has a multi-disciplinary team including psychologists, occupational therapy, recreational workers as well as the nursing and medical team.

Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.

Watch Aysha’s video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IibBYrQkR_E

Come and join our friendly team!

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• be a key member of the Inpatient Team
• be responsible / primary nurse for a designated group of patients
• be responsible for the assessment of their needs and for the planning
• implement and evaluate the care provided to meet service user needs
• provide clinical supervision to junior staff members
• have excellent communication and relationship management skills
• treat patients with fairness and respect, maintaining confidentiality appropriately
• assist the inpatients manager, the team and charge nurses in maintaining standards of care
• be fully involved in ward rounds, handovers and other meetings where patient care is discussed and reviewed as required
• participate in the assessment, admission, transfer and discharge of patients according to local guidelines and standards.

In return, we can offer you:

• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (not applicable in Stevenage)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Flexible working
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
• Employee Assistance Programme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• In addition to managing the clinical aspects of being a Band 5 Staff Nurse, you will take an active part in the assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for service users in collaboration with inpatient multi-disciplinary services.
• You will be liaising with colleagues and carers, ensuring they are fully aware of all aspects of a service users’ care and treatment.
• You will have effective communication skills and be able to contribute towards patient recovery and wellbeing.
• You will be able to identify individuals' care needs.
• You will be planning, implementing and evaluating care plans and risk assessments in collaboration with other teams and professionals.
• You will be maintaining lines of communication with all departments and staff involved in a service user’s care. Reporting on progress and effectiveness to the appropriate MDT.

For a more detailed description, please see attached JD and PS.