​Our clients are urgently seeking to recruit a

Locum Band 5 Registered Mental Health Nurse to join their Adolescent Mental Health Team.

Hours: 37.5hours (variety of early / late / night shifts)

JOB PURPOSE

• To be responsible for the co-ordination and management of the ward for a span of duty

• To assist in every aspect of the management of the inpatient unit and day care provision

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care to young persons and carers

• To provide high quality holistic nursing care to young persons and carers

• To work and contribute to a dedicated and skilled nursing team

• To contribute to the development of Highfield Unit services

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The nursing team are at the heart of the unit and are central to inpatient care delivery. You will work alongside a dedicated and robust multidisciplinary team to ensure that quality care is planned for and achieved.

There are opportunities to develop your nursing career whatever stage you may be at. Whether this be as a newly qualified nurses wanting to build a solid foundation of knowledge within inpatient mental health care, or for those at a later stage in their career looking for new learning opportunities and challenges. We strive to recruit a variety of nurses from different fields to ensure holistic care is delivered, this includes mental health nurses, learning disability nurse and pediatric nurses.

As a member of the nursing team you would be supported to work collaboratively with young people and their families to build therapeutic relationships, along with other professionals involved in their care. Training and supervision is provided to develop individual and group therapeutic work. We pride ourselves on nurturing and supporting nurses to deliver professional, thoughtful, high quality compassionate nursing care when young people need it the most.

We are keen to support all nurses to develop their own leadership skill to enable them to feel competent at managing shift and team coordination and supervising junior staff. Reflection within and on practice is an essential part of development, both within groups and on an individual basis. Highfield Unit has a structured weekly timetable of reflective spaces to ensure everyone has access to support and supervision to enhance their abilities.

All nurses at the Highfield Unit are encouraged and have the opportunity to develop areas of interest. You will be motivated and dynamic about service improvement and passionate about providing quality and creative care to adolescents.

Providing consistent and robust round the clock inpatient care is vital. The role importantly involves 24 hours, 7 days a week care therefore shift patterns are in place which will include nights, weekends and bank holidays.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity and would like to find out more, please call 01322 282470. Alternatively, you can reach the recruitment team via e-mail at recruitment@westmeriarecruitment.co.uk

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