Staff Nurse (RMN)

Job overview

Do you want to experience what it’s like working in a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit? Are you a nurse looking for a new opportunity or challenge?

The Female Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit based within St Ann’s Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a Staff Nurse to join our wonderful team.

Haven Female PICU is a 5 bedded female PICU that provides a high level of effective and compassionate care to women who are experiencing the most acute phase of a serious mental disorder. We utilise a range of interventions to ensure we adhere to best practice and provide excellent care to our patients at all times.

The team aim to:

• Treat patients who are detained under the Mental Health Act using positive engagement, talking therapies (CBT/DBT) and medicines
• Ensuring patient and their family/carers are at the centre of their recovery journey
• Engage creatively with patients to co-produce their individual care plans
• Prioritise both mental and physical health wellness
• Engaging patients in doing a variety of activities both on the ward and off the ward
• Help patients get active, eat well and take care of their own wellbeing
• Promote freedom of choice and least restrictive practice, in a safe and therapeutic environment

Main duties of the job

We are looking for suitably qualified and caring individuals who wish to work in a fast paced and challenging environment. You will have excellent clinical skills and be a team player who is emotionally intelligent and able to remain calm when managing potentially testing situations. We would love to hear about what attributes you believe you will bring to the team within your application, and what has driven you to apply for this role within PICU.

This is an excellent area to begin your career and each year, we welcome a number of newly qualified nurses to our psychiatric intensive care service and support them in developing their skills and confidence as a nurse.

This is also an exciting opportunity for nurses working in other settings of mental health nursing who would like to utilise and apply their skills in a specialist environment, caring for people with a wide variety of presenting problems and needs.

As a specialist service, we are able to provide opportunities to further develop your skills within specialised training such as RAID, Relational Security, DBT, CBT, enhanced risk assessment, and enhanced physical health interventions. Following successful completion of your 6 month probation period, you will meet with your supervisor to discuss your personal development plan which will identify your learning and training needs, so we can ensure you have all the skills you need to be the best you can be in your role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In return for joining us on Haven you will become a valued member of our multi-disciplinary team and have a say in how our service develops. We are friendly, enthusiastic, supportive and work to promote a safe and effective environment, enabling patients to overcome their current difficulties

For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification.  When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.

As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare is working in partnership with The Prince’s Trust to support people getting into work, as part of this partnership, we are offering an employability service to support individuals between 16-30 years old with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support please do contact [email protected]

We would welcome applications from newly qualified *nurses/occupational therapists/ physiotherapists and we provide a very comprehensive and fully supported Preceptorship Programme for newly qualified healthcare professionals

You will be required to undertake a Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression course and it is a condition of your employment that you successfully complete all aspects of this course; if this is not achieved you will not be able to commence working in the post.

Please be aware that applications from candidates that require sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.