Staff Nurse - Secure Inpatients Service

Bidvane; Tees Valley; Híbrido; GBP 27.000 - 36.000; Jornada completa

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NHS Pension Scheme

Training and development opportunities

Flexible working options

Employee Assistance Programme

Health and wellbeing support

Car lease scheme

Free onsite gym access

Free parking

Descripción de la vacante

Ridgeway Secure Inpatient Services within Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Staff Nurse for secure inpatient care. The role focuses on assessment, treatment and recovery-oriented care for adults with mental health conditions, learning disabilities or autism in a secure setting.

The post requires RNMH or RNLD registration with NMC and offers flexible hours with rotations and occasional nights.

Formación

• Evidence-based knowledge of best practice in mental health care.
• Understanding of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act.
• Knowledge of safeguarding and its application in practice.

Responsabilidades

• Plan and deliver evidence-based care with patients and their families.
• Assess patients’ needs and provide timely interventions.
• Assess risk and maintain patients’ dignity, privacy and safety.
• Follow relevant mental health legislation and safeguard patients.
• Administer and store medicines safely.
• Work collaboratively with prison colleagues, probation and Ridgeway services.

Conocimientos

Evidence-based practice

Mental Health Act

Mental Capacity Act

Safeguarding

Clinical risk management

Clinical governance

Medicines management

Educación

Practice assessor / mentor qualification

Clinical supervisor training

CPD evidence

Descripción del empleo

The Staff Nurse post sits within Ridgeway Secure Inpatient Services at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. It provides psychiatric assessment, treatment and recovery-focused care for adults with mental health conditions, learning disabilities or autism in secure inpatient settings. The service covers medium- and low-secure care, with links to high-secure services and the justice system; shifts rotate and include occasional nights, and part-time hours from 22.5 a week may be considered, with the ward confirmed after interview. Current NMC registration as RNMH or RNLD is required, although student nurses due to register within three months may apply; Skilled Worker sponsorship may be available subject to eligibility.

What the job involves

• Plan and deliver evidence-based care with patients, families and the wider multidisciplinary team
• Assess patients’ needs and provide appropriate, timely interventions
• Assess risk and maintain patients’ dignity, privacy and safety
• Recognise signs of harm and safeguard patients
• Follow relevant mental health and mental capacity legislation
• Administer and store medicines safely
• Maintain high professional standards
• Work collaboratively with prison colleagues, probation and Ridgeway services

What’s required

Qualifications

• Recognised practice assessor or mentor qualification, or willingness to work towards it within an agreed timescale
• Clinical supervisor training, or willingness to work towards it within an agreed timescale
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Registration & licences

• Current NMC registration as RNMH or RNLD

Experience

• Working with people with mental ill health or learning disabilities
• Working in a person-centred therapeutic organisation
• Working collaboratively with service users and their families or carers
• Working in a multidisciplinary team
• Working in partnership with other agencies

Skills & knowledge

• Evidence-based knowledge of best practice in the designated field
• Understanding of relevant legislation, including the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
• Understanding of safeguarding and its application in practice
• Knowledge of clinical risk assessment and management and its application in practice
• Knowledge of clinical governance and its application in practice
• Confident working knowledge of clinical medicines management, including injection administration

Other

• Availability for rotational shift work, including occasional nights

What’s offered

• NHS Pension Scheme
• Training and development opportunities
• Flexible working options
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Health and wellbeing support
• Car lease scheme
• Free onsite gym access
• Free parking