Senior Staff Nurse

Senior Staff Nurse

•Location: Arnold

•Salary: £37,992 - £40,455

•Hours: 37.5

•Vacancy Type: Permanent - Full-Time

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? Do you want to join a service where you can make a difference every day? If so, we have the perfect role for you!

Knowing that you are making a difference in people’s lives is rewarding in itself. But our many roles offer much more than that. As well as helping you grow and develop your talent, we want you to feel proud of where you work and what you do.

Our client provides acute adult mental health services, delivered in partnership with Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust, at our purpose-built facility in Arnold. After two years of successfully providing services for women, we opened a second service in May on behalf of the Trust for male patients, and we are about to open our brand new PICU service.

The role of the Registered Mental Health Senior Staff Nurse is to work as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team. Promote the best interests of the patients and carers and ensure that prescribed nursing care is effectively implemented. Responsible for maintaining a safe care environment. Exercise professional accountability and responsibility using professional skills, knowledge, and expertise in changing environments and working within the scope of professional practice.

Main Responsibilities:

•Supervises a defined group of team members and contributes to their overall CPD, mandatory training and appraisal process, recognising the skills required across the team.

•Monitor and review Nursing Care plans.

•Evaluate and respond to changes in patients' condition and needs.

•Provide a high standard of care to people with mental illness and personality disorders.

•Develop therapeutic relationships to optimise patient engagement.

•Contribute to patient assessments, compiling a plan of care alongside the individual, and monitoring patient progress.

•At a more senior level, you will also need to lead shifts and mentor and support student nurses and other team members.

•Follow all codes of conduct, standards, and legislation, respecting the rights of others and promoting ethical practice.

To be successful as an RMN, you will need:

•A relevant nursing qualification and registration

•Excellent teamwork skills, a high level of self-motivation and a flexible approach - our units operate 24 hours, 7 days a week, where flexible working patterns would be considered.

•A commitment to patient-centred care and to values-based and evidence-based practice

•The drive to continually push your own personal learning and development.