A senior nurse post on the inpatient units of the Forensic Inpatient Service at Guild Lodge, run by Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. The role centres on leading professional and direct care staff, giving the wards clinical leadership around the clock and a visible point of advice for patients and staff. Most shifts are nights, with rotation onto days when needed. Registration as a mental health nurse, a postgraduate diploma and an enhanced DBS check are required.
What the job involves
- Provide leadership to professional and direct care staff within the inpatient hospital model
- Support the delivery of the inpatient hospital model in the Forensic Inpatient Service
- Provide clinical leadership and expertise cover across 24 hours as part of the shift rota
- Work mainly night shifts and rotate onto days when required
- Act as a visible, accessible and authoritative presence on wards for patients and staff needing assistance, advice and support
- Support the holistic needs of service users, patients and carers
- Keep clinical skills up to date and expect others to perform clinically to a high standard
- Drive up clinical and professional standards
- Engage staff and get the best out of them as part of a supportive leadership team
Qualifications
- Postgraduate diploma
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
Registration & licences
- Registered mental health nurse with NMC registration
Experience
- Experience in a senior nursing post
- Understanding of professional nursing issues
- Participation in practice development initiatives
Skills & knowledge
- Up-to-date knowledge of contemporary mental health nursing
- Detailed understanding of clinical risk assessment and management and harm minimisation and its application in practice
- Detailed understanding of safeguarding
Checks & eligibility
- Enhanced DBS disclosure
What's offered
- Flexible working options, including term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time
- Wellbeing resources, tools and support
- Continued support and development
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
