Senior Staff Nurse

Active Care Group Recruitment; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in York is seeking a Senior Staff Nurse to join their Woodlands Rehabilitation Service. You will lead nursing assessments and care planning for patients in a supportive environment focused on recovery. Responsibilities include managing complex care needs and contributing to team efforts for clinical improvement. Candidates should hold an NMC Pin and have experience in a neurological setting. This position offers full-time and part-time hours with various employee benefits.

Benefits

25 days plus bank holidays

Birthday off

Access to learning and development opportunities

Free Employee Assistance Programme

Nest Personal Pension account

Paid NMC Renewal

Medicash Health Plan

Active Awards programme

Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Current registration with NMC.
• Experience in complex patient management.
• Background in neurological nursing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Acting as Primary Nurse and taking responsibility for nursing input.
• Contributing to multidisciplinary team discussions and clinical improvement.
• Ensuring high standards of clinical documentation.

Skills

Clinical reasoning skills

Nursing assessments

Patient care planning

Teamwork and collaboration

Flexibility in hours

Education

NMC Pin registration

Job description

Come and join one of the UK's largest providers in Neuro and Mental Healthcare. We proudly employ over 4000+ people - no matter what your experience, we have jobs for everyone.

We'd like you to join us as a Senior Staff Nurse at our Woodlands Rehabilitation Service in York.

Woodlands Neurological Rehabilitation Centre provides specialist level 2A neurological rehabilitation, treatment, slow stream rehabilitation, residential and respite care, as well as neurobehavioural services for up to 27 adults.

Active Neuro service Woodlands Neurological Rehabilitation Centre provides award-winning rehabilitation services for adults with neurological conditions resulting from injury, illness or disease.

We have invested in the latest rehabilitation technology and enhanced our environment to ensure our patients get the very best support possible to maximise their recovery.

With state-of-the-art amenities and a compassionate team that helps everyone to feel safe, happy, and empowered – Woodlands is an excellent place where each person in our care can live the best life possible in a nurturing and warm community.

What you'll be working:

42 hours per week, on a rota basis (Monday - Sunday)

*** FULL TIME & PART TIME HOURS AVAILABLE ***

What you'll be doing:

• Acting as Primary Nurse, taking overall responsibility for the nursing input residents receive, through nursing assessments and care planning.
• Contributing towards MDT working, risk assessment management and a programme of on-going clinical improvement.
• Providing written nursing reports for a range of statutory and clinical review processes.
• Work according to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and relevant professional guidelines as a named nurse or key worker for a defined group of patients.
• Work and act as a key member of the team, supporting each patient with achieving their planned outcomes.
• To ensure a comprehensive assessment is completed for the patients/residents/clients to ensure a comprehensive person-centered assessment is completed for their pathway and care plan.
• Take charge of a designated clinical area.
• Ensure all clinical documentation is of a high standard and patient notes are maintained and filed in the appropriate way.
• Provide a highly specialised range of clinical interventions and knowledge of evidence based models of practice relevant to the patients’/residents’ needs.
• Working autonomously with confidence and competence to provide a highly specialised and safe service to the patient.
• Adopt a flexible approach to hours of duty, in order to meet the needs of the service over a 24 hour period.

What you'll have:

• A current NMC Pin registration
• A legal right to work in the UK
• If you have a background working as a band 6 Registered Nurse, or previous experience as a band 5 in a neurological setting.
• Experience of managing complex patients, utilising advanced clinical reasoning skills to assess, diagnose and implement appropriate nursing support plans. Knowledge of development, clinical training and supervision of support workers.
• You will be able to demonstrate clinical effectiveness by reflecting current evidence base, national guidelines and use of outcome measures.

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident employer.

What to look forward to:

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline & App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• Paid NMC Renewal
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1500 for Nurses, Therapists & Doctors, £500 all other roles, by recommending someone you know
• ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group