Staff Nurse

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Luton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An opportunity at a healthcare organization in the UK for a professional dedicated to forensic nursing. Responsibilities include managing a specific community caseload, ensuring a high standard of care, and compliance with the Mental Health Act. Ideal candidates are expected to collaborate effectively with service users, carers, and colleagues to enhance service delivery, while embodying values of care, respect, and inclusivity. This role is essential to driving positive outcomes for all clients served.

Qualifications

• Forensic nursing experience is mandatory.
• Ability to establish therapeutic relationships with clients and families.
• Awareness of risk management techniques.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for managing a community caseload.
• Promote a service user focused service.
• Coordinate day-to-day team activities.
• Ensure compliance with the Mental Health Act.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Responsible for an identified community caseload, ensuring high standard of professional conduct to comply with best practice and professional accountabilities.
• Must have forensic nursing experience.
• Promote a service user focused service.
• Participate in audits and surveys relevant to the team.
• Participate in development of new policies and procedures as required.
• Ensure that clients receive a culturally competent service.
• Co‑ordinate day‑to‑day activity and manage workload of the team.
• Ensure legal requirements of the Mental Health Act (1983) and subsequent amendments are adhered to.
• Establish and maintain good relationships with service users, carers and voluntary sector colleagues.
• Provide best evidence practice to service users which complies with legislation, policies and procedures and relevant quality, governance and local and national guidelines.
• Liaise with General Practice and Primary Care colleagues to promote partnership working.
• Ensure local demographics are taken into consideration for service provision and improvement.
• Participate in assessment and selection of potential clients ensuring their physical, psychological and social needs are met.
• Seek to establish therapeutic relationships with clients and their families.
• Ensure that clients with behavioural problems (e.g., violent or potentially violent) are identified and, if necessary, organise joint visits, being mindful of the lone worker policy.
• Awareness and understanding of effective use of risk management techniques.

Mission & Values

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.