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Job summary

Main area
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Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Days and Nights)
Job ref
367-LD&F-8909
Employer
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Little Plumstead Hospital
Town
Norwich
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
26/11/2024 08:00

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Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

Staff Nurse + £6,000 Recruitment Incentive

NHS AfC: Band 5

Values Based Screener

At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form. 

http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/

 

Job overview

Are you:

  • A newly qualified nurse looking for your first role?
  • Are you a qualified mental health or learning disability looking to move from a suburban area in search for cleaner air and a better work life balance.

We have some great incentives that we can offer:

  • Recruitment and Retention Premium (RRP) of £6,000 per year on top of the Band 5 salary. On average this will be £34,000-£40,000 per annum (inclusive of average unsocial hours payments and the RRP)
  • The successful candidate will receive up to £120 towards their registration fee, which will be paid upon commencement. This payment will be subject to tax and national insurance deductions.
  • We also offer a fantastic preceptorship Programme that allows you to develop your clinical, communication and leadership skills with excellent support.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the day-to-day running of a learning disability assessment and treatment service and will assist the Team Leader in maintaining effective team working processes.

  • Registered Nurses must be able to exercise a considerable degree of initiative, possess mature judgment and maintain a calm, friendly and efficient manner when dealing with patients, their relatives, colleagues and visitors.
  • You will be required to work independently using initiative, and apply a high degree of confidentiality and professionalism to their work.
  • You must be able to demonstrate good interpersonal and communication skills, manage competing demands and organise their own work in meeting deadlines in order for the smooth running of the ward area.

Working for our organisation

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

 

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

 

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

 

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

 

The Trust is embedding a Trauma Informed Approach within all of our inpatients units and that you will be part of this exciting development. 

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?Then please read on…

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To work in close collaboration with other professionals in an Assessment & Treatment environment in assessing patient’s needs, devising Person Centered care plans and evaluating outcomes that promote patient empowerment through the process. 
  • You with the wider Multi –disciplinary Team will be expected to participate in the Assessment & Treatment to provide high quality, individualised care, which addresses the needs and wants of adolescents and adults with learning disabilities and/or
    overlying psychiatric disorders or challenging behaviours.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Academic qualifications - RNMH/RNLD/RMN
  • Membership of NMC
Desirable criteria
  • ENB 998/Mentorship
  • Completion of management training
  • Teaching / training experience

Experience & Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Experience in care planning
  • Organisational skills and the ability to work effectively within a management structure
  • Communication skills – written, verbal and non-verbal
  • IT skills, in particular MS word
Desirable criteria
  • Provision of effective clinical supervision
  • Leadership and motivational skills
  • Ability to chair meetings effectively

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Recognises and reflects on barriers to effective communication, modifying communication in response
  • De-escalation in managing verbal aggression of disturbed service users
  • Keeps accurate and complete records and communication consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
  • Demonstrate good decision making skills
  • Flexible and responsive approach to care

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Happy to Talk Flexible Working

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
James Ruthen
Job title
Clinical Operations Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01603 711148
Additional information

For any informal visits or further information about the team or role, please do not hesitate to contact James Ruthen (Clinical Operations Manager)