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Job overview

We have exciting opportunities for nurses to join our low secure mental health services, here at Clifton House in York. Working with patients in either assessment and treatment or rehabilitation, we would welcome your skills and experience as part of our multidisciplinary team, where staff wellbeing is a valued priority. We require the post holder to be an effective team player, committed to equal opportunities and non-discriminatory practices. Clifton House will offer you a stimulating, challenging and rewarding work environment where you will contribute to the continual development of the service and the wellbeing and recovery of our patients.

You will have excellent communication skills, be self-assured, emotionally resilient and adaptable to patient needs. Maintaining clear boundaries and consistencies within the team, you will work closely with and be guided by the wider MDT. 

You will be offered support and supervision in order to ensure safe and effective nursing practice and will gain an understanding of the Mental Health Act and the criminal justice system. You will be closely involved in developing recovery care pathways for patients alongside their families and carers and will empower them at all stages of care and treatment.

Please feel free to contact either Rosie Feeney for Riverfields, Rob Hewitt for Bluebell or Lauren Riding for Westerdale ward, Clinical Team Managers to discuss the available opportunities further on 01904 294100.

Main duties of the job

You will work as a staff nurse on a low secure forensic hospital ward, providing quality mental health nursing care to service users with severe and enduring mental health conditions.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing assessment and treatment and rehabilitative support including nursing and therapeutic interventions.
You will undertake the role of primary nurse and be responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for a designated group of service users.
You will understand and work within the framework of the Mental Health Act, and employ robust risk assessment and risk management skills.

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. 

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa. 

 

 

 

 

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Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application.

Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Please note that from 1^st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.

LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children.  Please refer to job description for further information.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a  focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. 

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria. 

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs. 

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates best interest to apply as soon as possible.

In view of Home Office Immigration Regulations all applicants must state their current immigration status, including expiry dates.

In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

 

In submitting an application for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not. 

If you have not received any further communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.