Job summary
- Are you keen on developing your career further?
- Do you like contributing to supporting people through their recovery journey?
- Are you caring, kind and compassionate
Look no further, we have the perfect role for you at the Adult Forensic Care Group.
What is Adult Forensic Care Group? - Our services support those and provide treatment, rehabilitation and aftercare for people who have serious mental illness with a moderate risk to themselves or others, meaning they require a more secure environment. This could be a medium or low secure setting with our wards specialising in each part of a service users' recovery and aims to prepare them for life in the community.
Medium Secure: -Comprises of male and female wards. They provide individualised care, a whole range of treatment including: -psychology and therapeutic interventions and our clinical teams work collaboratively with service users towards their recovery and discharge. The clinical teams include consultant psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, advanced practitioners, occupational therapists, social workers, nurses, and support workers.
Low Secure: -Comprises of two, 15 bed male wards who provide intensive rehabilitation for people with enduring mental health needs and who cannot be safely treated in an open inpatient recovery unit. Service users have a wide range of activities to support their recovery and our facilities include a fully equipped gym, a large sports hall, workshop, and classroom environments. Support is available to acquire skills for voluntary and paid opportunities and are supported to access facilities within the wider community.
Main duties of the job
We currently have vacancies across both low and medium secure services for Registered Nurses in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, so why not apply!
Why the Adult Forensic Care Group? -We offer continuous professional and personal development at AFS and have recently recruited a 'Professional Lead for Nursing' who is key, in driving personal and professional development for our nursing workforce. If you are a newly qualified nurse or re-joining the nursing workforce, we support you through our 'Preceptorship' framework to help you through learning the role within GMMH, gaining skills and confidence. Further personal and professional development is reviewed through your line management supervision and appraisal process, with access to CPD courses and online learning throughout your nursing career. There are opportunities to continue to progress your career into leadership positions, advanced practice, and clinical leader roles.
AAs a service we are on an improvement journey where we are reviewing our internal training packages to fully equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to excel in your role with us. You and your wellbeing are important to us, so we have recently appointed a staff health and wellbeing lead. We also continue offering AFS staff access to the AFS Gym and Sports Hall free of charge!
About us
Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) is one of the leading mental health trusts in the UK.
Serving a population of 1.2million people, across one of the most exciting and affordable cities in Europe, GMMH provides community and inpatient mental health care, alongside prison in reach, substance misuse services, a specialist centre for mental health and deafness and inpatient perinatal mental health care.
The Trust employs around 6,500 people, who make a difference across 130 locations. Staff at GMMH work to improve lives with a culture based on five core values:
- We are caring and compassionate
- We inspire hope
- We work together
- We value and respect
- We are open and honest
GMMH is one of the most active research trusts in the UK, with one of the highest levels of recruitment to clinical trials for mental health.
We have been rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commission. Our substance misuse services and leadership were rated as 'Outstanding'
Job description
Job responsibilities
About the Role:
Our nurses are an active and integral role within the multidisciplinary team, providing safe and effective care and treatment to our service users. The role is ward-based, assisting with the smooth coordination and running of the ward environment. This role will give you the opportunity to further develop your leadership skills as you provide guidance to support workers and students on the ward. You will participate and contribute as a crucial member of the MDT, providing reviews of service users and support to our service users throughout their journey as a primary named nurse.
See attached detailed job description and person specification:
Staff benefits
- Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts
Job description
Job responsibilities
About the Role:
Our nurses are an active and integral role within the multidisciplinary team, providing safe and effective care and treatment to our service users. The role is ward-based, assisting with the smooth coordination and running of the ward environment. This role will give you the opportunity to further develop your leadership skills as you provide guidance to support workers and students on the ward. You will participate and contribute as a crucial member of the MDT, providing reviews of service users and support to our service users throughout their journey as a primary named nurse.
See attached detailed job description and person specification:
Staff benefits
- Pay Enhancements 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
- Excellent pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Wellbeing programme
- Blue Light Card Discounts
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Nurse or working towards
Experience
Essential
- Have recent experience of working within and supporting staff to deliver care to patients who have challenging needs in order to demonstrate the required understanding of risk management.
- Have recent experience of working proactively within a multi disciplinary team.
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based care for the patient group.
Skills
Essential
- Be able to engage with service users effectively to ensure monitoring of risk and mental health including identification of recognised early warning signs.
- Be able to reflect honestly on and develop own skills and abilities to best meet the needs of the service user population
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Nurse or working towards
Experience
Essential
- Have recent experience of working within and supporting staff to deliver care to patients who have challenging needs in order to demonstrate the required understanding of risk management.
- Have recent experience of working proactively within a multi disciplinary team.
Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate evidence based care for the patient group.
Skills
Essential
- Be able to engage with service users effectively to ensure monitoring of risk and mental health including identification of recognised early warning signs.
- Be able to reflect honestly on and develop own skills and abilities to best meet the needs of the service user population
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
