Specialist Nurse Deaf Services

We are looking for a driven, passionate and highly experienced Mental Health Nurse to join the team.
Location: Northampton
Salary: Competitive and dependent on experience at this level
Hours: Ideally 37.5 per week but open to flexibility
Our Charity

We are St Andrew\’s. We are a mental health Charity and our purpose is to inspire hope for those living with complex mental health needs.

We are looking to a future with less stigma, more community support, more research and education, and we aim to be at the forefront of inspiring real change. We want to ensure we can all live in a society where everyone with complex mental health needs is heard, valued and has hope for their future.

Come and join us and support us to help people transform their lives.

The Role

As the Highly Specialised Nurse for our Deaf services, you will practice autonomously at an advanced level to the deaf service across the Charity. This is a key post within a specialist area and will have a clear role in defining, shaping and developing the Deaf service across all sites in the Charity including community settings. You will report directly to the Director of Nursing.

This is a key post to support the Charity to deliver highly specialised Deaf Service care in line with the quality and strategic plans, to provide advice, guidance and expert experience into complex cases, to support the charity to ensure Deaf Service patients receive effective and safe specialist care and treatment and to support the charity in developing its Deaf Service practices and service provision.

You will support a culture of quality improvement that produces new ideas, approaches, innovation or insights, ensuring that plans are developed and taken forward to improve patient care and services focused on our deaf services patient care.

The Person

You will be an experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse with current NMC registration, be educated to masters level or equivalent in the relevant area of practice. You will bring highly relevant specialist clinical knowledge relating to deaf services.

You will be trained to BSL Level 2 or higher or have relevant lived experience of BSL. You will have a strong track record of achieving improvements for patients through service transformation involving staff, patients, their families and other stakeholders. You will also have a good understanding of research and can demonstrate how research has influenced your practice.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew\’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.

We offer an excellent package that includes:

As well as a competitive salary we offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 33 days plus bank holidays; Life cover; Electric Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to a wide range of free vocational qualifications and learning and development opportunities. On-site facilities such as cafés, all set within beautiful grounds.

Interested?

If this sounds like you then wed love you to get in touch. If you would like an informal and confidential discussion about the role please contact Dave Anthony, Head of Recruitment.

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