Staff Nurse

NHS; Great Yarmouth; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a compassionate individual to join their team in Great Yarmouth. Responsibilities include monitoring patient health, updating care plans, and leading multidisciplinary meetings. Candidates must be NMC registered with experience in mental health care. The role offers a supportive environment with opportunities for training and development.

Benefits

Ongoing training and development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Competitive salary

Responsibilities

• Keeping accurate records, updating care plans and risk assessments.
• Monitoring a service users physical health and responding to deteriorating patients.
• Leading various meetings such as MDT, admission, and discharge planning.

Skills

Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality

Ability to supervise others

Previous experience of working with people with mental health needs

Ability to work regularly unsupervised

Education

NMC registered

Experience working on an organic ward

Job description

Gt Y Acute is an 18 bed mixed ward with the purpose of admission and assessment . We are looking for a person who is kind and compassionate to others, and has a focus on person centred care.

You will be working among a team of Doctors, Nurses, clinical support workers, physiotherapists, social workers, psycho therapists and Occupational Therapists. You will closely with the loved ones of service users to integrate life story work into the care planning of service users.

Within this job role you will be offered training, as well as at least monthly support by your line-manager. We believe that within a team it is important that staff feel listened to, and are able to make change happen.

Main duties of the job

• Keeping accurate records, updating care plans and risk assessments
• Monitoring a service users physical health and being able to respond to a deteriorating patient
• Relevant assessments for nurses - such as risk assessments, physical health assessments such as MUST and Waterlow, falls assessments.
• Leading a variety of meetings such as MDT, admission, best interest and discharge planning meetings
• Be able to act in a service users best interests, act as an advocate for those who cannot advocate for themselves
• Be able to assess capacity of a service user
• Supervising and assessing student nurses
• Provide line management supervision to clinical support worker staff
• Be accountable for their work and be a reflective practitioner
• Complete medication rounds and administer IM medication
• Communicate regularly with carers
• Complete nursing assessments such as continuing health care.
• Over see the admission and discharge processes on the ward
• Working within legalities of the job, checking of T2/T3 forms, reading of 132 rights, writing tribunal reports where necessary.
• Management and oversight of the 136 suite

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

NMC registered

• Experience working on an organic ward

Experience & Skills

• Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality
• Ability to work regularly unsupervised
• Previous experience of working with people with mental health needs
• Ability to supervise others

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.

£31,049 to £37,796 a yeargross per annum