Job summary
Are you a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse looking to develop your career in acute mental health? We are looking for enthusiastic Band 5 Registered Nurses to join our supportive team on Sandpiper Ward at Hellesdon Hospital.

Sandpiper is a 16-bed acute adult inpatient ward for men experiencing functional mental illness. We provide compassionate, recovery-focused care within a supportive multidisciplinary team. Our focus is on delivering safe, high-quality care while promoting dignity, independence and positive patient outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your clinical skills, confidence and leadership potential. You will be supported through induction, supervision, training and professional development.

If you are passionate about making a meaningful difference and want to work within a team that values kindness, teamwork, learning and improvement, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
You will provide safe, effective and person-centred care to patients throughout their inpatient journey. You will develop therapeutic relationships, contribute to assessments and care planning, support recovery goals and promote patients' independence and wellbeing.

You will work collaboratively with patients, families, carers and the wider multidisciplinary team to ensure care is coordinated and responsive to individual needs. Your role will include physical health monitoring, risk assessment and management, medicines management, safeguarding and supporting the safe management of restrictive practices.

Every shift offers opportunities to use your clinical judgement, respond to changing needs, support therapeutic interventions and contribute to positive recovery outcomes.

We are committed to your development and offer a comprehensive induction, clinical supervision, preceptorship where appropriate, specialist training and continuing professional development. You will be encouraged to develop your expertise, contribute ideas and identify opportunities to improve patient care and experience.

About us
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• A comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• Career progression
• Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• Staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more

We welcome informal discussions and would love you to get in touch to talk about the opportunities available and come and visit to see what we are all about.

Job responsibilities
Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

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Person Specification
Experience
Desirable

• Previous experience working with people with mental health needs

Qualifications
Essential

• Nursing degree or equivalent RN(MH)

Skills
Essential

• Good observation and reporting skills
• Ability to motivate others

Desirable

• Ability to supervise others

Knowledge
Essential

• Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality

Desirable

• Awareness of security and its impact and willingness to expand knowledge on it.
• Working knowledge /application of the Mental Health Act 1983

Other
Essential

• Flexibility of duty and hours over a 24hr 7 day a week period
• Ability to travel independently

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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