Staff Nurse

Job summary

Young people across West Yorkshire now benefit from a new enhanced mental health service delivered in a modern purpose-built facility from January this year - could you be part of our brand new team?

The service is part of Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and is based in Armley, less than 3 miles from Leeds City Centre. It provides inpatient care and support to families and young people from across West Yorkshire. It marks the start of an exciting new chapter in the provision of NHS services to young people living with mental health needs and their families. Red Kite View will allow you to work in a spacious, therapeutic environment that has been designed in consultation with staff and young people using the current services. This is your chance to be a part of something new, right from the very beginning.

The service opened in January and offers a welcoming, therapeutic environment to support young people aged from 13 up to 18 years of age who need the support of an inpatient service in their journey to recovery.

Main duties of the job

Red Kite View supports young people experiencing significant psychiatric, psychological, or emotional problems that are causing them interpersonal, educational and social functioning problems. The team will work with a huge range of other services across West Yorkshire supporting young peoples' mental health including the NHS, local authorities and third sector providers.

Red Kite View has two wards the General Adolescent Unit (GAU) and the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). We have vacancies on both of these wards and welcome you to call Lucy Unsworth, Ward Manager, GAU for further information on this post or Justine Halonka, Ward Manager, PICU to have a chat about working on PICU. You can then discuss which ward you would like to work on if you are successful to interview.

You will have great interpersonal skills and be able to establish a professional working relationship with young people and families. You will be cool in a crisis, it's a busy clinical area and the service manages risk-taking behaviour and deliberate self harm. It is a demanding yet rewarding role.

The role will involve working within a multidisciplinary team in direct clinical contact with young people and families.

Your values are essential to this role; we are looking for someone who genuinely wants to make a lasting impact on young people, who insists on doing things with care and diligence and is able to think on their feet.

About us

We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health. We perform well againstlocal and national targetsand inour most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Red Kite View

Leeds

LS12 3QE

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Red Kite View

Leeds

LS12 3QE

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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