Acute Recovery Nurse - Neuromodulation Service

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust; Quorn; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Quorn is seeking a Band 5 Nurse to join the mental health clinic team. This full-time role involves working with a supportive team in a busy environment. The ideal candidate will be a Registered Psychiatric Nurse or a Dual Qualified Nurse, demonstrating leadership, organizational, and communication skills. Opportunities for career progression and development within a specialist clinic service are available.

Benefits

Robust induction period

Regular supervision and support

Opportunities for career progression

Access to national training

Flexible working patterns

Qualifications

• Must be a Registered Psychiatric Nurse or a Dual Qualified Nurse.
• Strong leadership and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication and team-working abilities.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the ongoing development of the mental health service.
• Run busy clinics and support team members.
• Participate in satellite clinics across Leicestershire.

Skills

Leadership skills

Organizational skills

Excellent communication skills

Education

Registered Psychiatric Nurse or Dual Qualified Nurse

Job description

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 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, 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)
• Clozapine clinic
• Olanzapine clinic
• rTMS clinic
• ECG clinic

Please note that 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. 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. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.