Staff Nurse Winchester

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for 2 enthusiastic and motivated Staff Nurse to join our lively and busy multidisciplinary team at Sherwood Ward in Melbury Lodge. Melbury Lodge has two adult acute wards: Rosemary Ward offering care for up to 13 female patients and Sherwood Ward offering care for up to 13 male patients. It also houses Snowdrop Ward (Older Person Mental Health Ward) and Clover Ward (Mother and Baby Ward).

Melbury Lodge is based in Winchester and provides cares for the needs of service users across Hampshire.

We provide care and treatment to service users who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis and require a period of hospital care to support their recovery.

We are looking to appoint an experienced RMN who is committed to leading and delivering high quality patient care. The successful applicant will be committed to supporting service users and their families with their recovery and will be based on Sherwood ward.

Main duties of the job

• To lead the clinical management of a designated group of service users in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care
• To ensure that junior staff and students are actively engaged in patient activity
• To observe, report and record changes in the service user physical, mental health and behaviour
• To work with the MDT in planning and delivering care
• To maintain working knowledge of legislation, policy and guidance pertaining to mental health and learning disabilities
• To identify, provide and supervise the necessary physical care to service users to help them complete daily living activities
• To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality, spiritual beliefs and activity, supporting the individual to fulfil these
• To identify, provide and supervise therapeutic activities, emotional support and stability to clients to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries
• To create and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff and with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery
• To undertake prescribed physical observations as follows. To be responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication
• To work within Trust and Professional Guidelines related to consent and capacity to consent

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings; Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence.

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached

It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert

The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible

We are happy to talk Flexible Working: all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified registered nurse
• Newly qualified nurses are welcomed

Desirable

• Computer skills

Experience

Essential

• Able to attend and participate in all statutory training events, including manual handling and management of aggression
• Commitment to lifelong learning
• Ability to communicate effectively with people who have difficulty understanding
• Ability to recognise and respond to behaviour that challenges
• Full and detailed knowledge of all legislation relating to mental health care
• Good facilitation skills
• Evidence of effective people skills
• Ability to organise self and others to achieve tasks
• Ability to supervise students and staff

Desirable

• Practice accessor

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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