Specialist Nurse
Job Description
Westlands Unit are looking to recruit a Band 6 Specialist Nurse to joint our established multi-disciplinary team.
Westlands is an 18 bedded, female treatment unit which offers service users intensive, high quality, person centred interventions, assessment and treatment, utilising a trauma informed model and approach.
The successful candidate must be committed, motivated and have an empathetic and understanding approach to the people who access our service. They need to have an appropriate level of self-awareness and the ability to utilise their initiative when working with often complex and challenging situations.
The candidate will also be expected to provide senior leadership and supervision to junior staff across the service and therefore would benefit from having a high level of clinical knowledge and experience of offering value based, value recovery-focused interventions that facilitate recovery.
The successful candidate will be given regular supervision, guidance and support. There will be opportunities for further development and training.
Main duties of the job
Westlands is an 18 bedded, female unit providing holistic treatment interventions for people experiencing increased mental health difficulties.
As part of the forever adapting role the successful candidate will be required to:
- Provide and receive routine information requiring reassurance, empathy and de-escalation skills.
- Demonstrate good interpersonal skills when managing individuals with complex needs.
- To support patients throughout their admission including supporting individuals during their crisis period.
- To help facilitate therapeutic intervention and distraction techniques for our service users.
- To work effectively as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
- To support the management team in providing clinical and professional leadership to nurses within own area of responsibility.
- To support the team with the implementation of policy, protocol, service/practice development and change within own area of responsibility.
- To continue to demonstrate specialist clinical skills in practice and provide support/advice i.e. service development and the delivery of care, in partnership with service users, carers, staff, managers and other agencies.
- To support the leadership team in completing AUDITS.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with adults with a learning disability with complex needs.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held, within mental health services
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Part III or 13 of NMC live register
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
- Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion
- Demonstrable experience of mentoring pre-registration students
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication /planning/change that impacts within own area of work/responsibility.
- Leadership training/qualification/experience
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.