Acute Recovery Nurse - Neuromodulation Service

NHS; Leicester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in Leicester seeks an Acute Recovery Nurse to join their mental health team. This full-time position involves running clinics, developing services, and attending regional meetings. Applicants must be Registered Psychiatric Nurses. Competitive benefits and opportunities for professional development are offered.

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered Psychiatric Nurse or Dual Qualified Nurse.

Responsibilities

• Help run clinics and assist in service development.
• Attend meetings with regional ECT staff.

Skills

Registered Psychiatric Nurse

Leadership Skills

Excellent Communication Skills

Education

Nursing Qualification

Job description

Acute Recovery Nurse - Neuromodulation Service

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Nurse to join our busy clinic team within the Directorate of Mental Health. The post is based at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit within the Neuromodulation Service and the successful candidate will work alongside the existing team.

This is a full-time post and the hours of work are 08:00 16:00 Monday to Friday.

We welcome applicants who are Registered Psychiatric Nurses or Dual Qualified Nurses.

The Role:

The role will be helping to run our busy clinics and assist in the ongoing development of our service. The successful candidate would be able to demonstrate good leadership skills and be organised with excellent communication skills. We recognise that applicants may be unfamiliar with our service so full support and training will be provided. We also operate our service at satellite clinics within Leicestershire and the successful applicant will be expected to participate in these. The team consists of 13 staff with admin support and a peer support worker.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals

Main duties of the job

As an Acute Recovery Team Nurse, you will have the opportunity to develop your practice to function within a specialist clinic service, access to national training and the opportunity to work with our UHL colleagues (ECT clinic).

You will attend regular meetings with regional ECT staff to develop the nurse role within ECT, the opportunity to develop and attend regional meetings for rTMS and attendance at national conferences.

The clinics we currently offer include:

• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
• rTMS clinic
• ECG clinic

About us

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

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Person Specification

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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.

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Glenfield Hospital

Bradgate Mental Health Unit, Glenfield Hospital