Specialist Nurse

NHS; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health provider in Hull and East Yorkshire is seeking a Specialist Nurse (Band 6) to join their multidisciplinary team. The role involves providing specialist care to patients under the Mental Health Act, offering professional leadership, and supporting service development. Candidates should be registered nurses with experience in mental health and leadership skills. The position emphasizes staff well-being, providing various support systems and a comprehensive induction process.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Comprehensive induction

Qualifications

• Full understanding of relevant policy and legislation in mental health.
• Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to clinical area.
• Experience in the specific field of specialist practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide high levels of clinical and professional leadership.
• Support management in implementing clinical and operational changes.
• Maintain up-to-date specialist clinical knowledge and skills.

Skills

Effective inter-personal skills

Ability to lead and motivate staff

Education

Registered Adult Nurse Part III or 13 of NMC live register

Leadership training/qualification/experience

Tools

IT skills for electronic patient record systems

Job description

Are you looking for a new challenge? Westlands are looking for a Specialist Nurse (band 6) to join our multi-disciplinary team.

Westlands is an 18 bedded female treatment unit which supports patients who are both informal and detained under the Mental Health Act (1983). Patients nursed at Westlands are often experiencing acute episodes of mental ill health requiring a range of specialist interventions by the multi-disciplinary team.

As a valued staff member you can expect to receive a comprehensive induction into the trust and to the team.

Staff wellbeing and support is very important to us and we have various embedded systems in place to promote this, including regular clinical and managerial supervision, weekly reflective practice, team discussions after all shifts and 6 monthly team away days.

Main duties of the job

As a Specialist Nurse at Westlands you will be an integral part of the Multidisciplinary Team providing a high level of specialist care, working within a trauma informed model of care. You will be expected to provide high levels of both clinical and professional leadership, supporting the management team to implement both clinical and operational policies, protocols and service/practice developmental change.

You will work closely with the Clinical Leads/Team Lead to provide evidence-based advice to peers and junior staff.

To maintain, as part of continual professional development, up todate specialist clinical knowledge/skills in the clinical field, usinginformation to effect change in practice and ensuring the effectivedissemination of new knowledge.

Maintain and demonstrate specialist theoretical and practical knowledgeof a range of clinical intervention, procedures and practices relevant tothe clinical area.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
• IT skills for learning systems required for role e.g. electronic patient record, clinical stock ordering systems, incident reporting systems.
• Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility

Experience

• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area at specialist level of care
• Evidence of development of specialist practice nursing skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development
• Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held

Qualifications

• Registered Adult Nurse Part III or 13 of NMC live register
• Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
• Leadership training/qualification/experience

Skills and Competencies

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change

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.