Registered Nurse - Mental Health

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Welcome Bonus of 5% of starting salary and Relocation Packages of upto £8000 available (subject to t&c's)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and creative band 5 nurse, with either a mental health or learning disability nursing qualification, to work on a busy, award winning, small male PICU in the heart of West Lancashire.

We are a 4 bedded male PICU, with a compact and committed staff team who all strive towards providing our service users with an excellent inpatient experience. We do this in part through our commitment to reducing restrictive practices, the use of activity on the ward and by providing the staff team access to a wide range of training and development opportunities.

The team have recently won awards from within LSCFT, including enhancing the patient experience with a cycling project, a locality award for outstanding contributions to quality and patient safety, and winning the Trust wide award for outstanding contribution to service user and carer experience.

Main duties of the job

The positions available will be suitable for both experienced and newly qualified nurses from either a mental health or learning disability background. We ask that you are motivated, creative in your approach and eager to enhance the inpatient experience.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Date posted

24 January 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£27,055 to £32,934 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

351-CEN611

Job locations

Ormskirk Hospital

Ormskirk

L39 2AZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse - Mental Health / Learning Disability
On-going registration with the NMC.

Knowledge

Essential

Can demonstrate an understanding and knowledge base of mental health conditions and their treatments, recovery principles and person centred care
Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and Care Programme Approach
Can demonstrate a working knowledge of physical health conditions and the complications that this can cause to patients experiencing mental ill health.

Experience

Essential

Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team structure.
Experience of assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing care needs

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse - Mental Health / Learning Disability
On-going registration with the NMC.

Knowledge

Essential

Can demonstrate an understanding and knowledge base of mental health conditions and their treatments, recovery principles and person centred care
Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and Care Programme Approach
Can demonstrate a working knowledge of physical health conditions and the complications that this can cause to patients experiencing mental ill health.

Experience

Essential

Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team structure.
Experience of assessing, planning, implementing and reviewing care needs

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.