Senior Staff Nurse - Tavener Ward - St Andrew's Healthcare : Job Details

Senior Staff Nurse – Tavener Ward

Neuropsychiatry – Male Brain Injury

Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire

Salary: Up to £37,821 + Enhancements - Depending on Experience

Full time 37.5 hours

If you are keen to develop, are passionate about patient care and looking for your next position in nursing leadership, working within a strong and established clinical team, then this role is for you

About you

You will have in depth experience of working with our patients in a mental health service. Being a strong team player, you will be able to build and maintain effective relationships across clinical teams.

You will have good interpersonal skills with the ability to develop rapport with patients.

You will also be highly resilient, able to work under pressure and have good problem solving skills.

You will have an active NMC registration.

Some of the main duties of a Senior Staff Nurse are to:

Plan, organise and deploy staff according to competencies and workload in order to meet patient needs.

Develop, implement, review and promote the importance of effective outcome focused care plans to meet individual preferences and needs, attending and contributing to ward rounds.

Effectively communicate with all MDT members, taking positive risks to manage the care environment and reduce the use of restrictive practices.

Build and monitor ongoing relationships with patients, their families and carers to encourage trust, whilst listening to and interpreting their needs and concerns.

Ensure all patient records, records of risk and interventions that have been taken, are up to date and accurate.

Use refection and supervision to learn from events and generate opportunities to improve patient outcomes.

Receive and provide clinical supervision.

Support the division to deliver specific outcome measures.

Complete required ward audits in line with the Clinical Governance strategy.

Tavener Ward:-

A 16-bed inpatient care and rehabilitation unit for adult men who have an acquired/traumatic brain injury and who experience complex behavioural, psychiatric and emotional difficulties. The unit also contains 4 self-contained 'independent living' flats

Tavener specialises in the admission, stabilisation and treatment of adult men with complex mental health needs and neuropsychiatric diagnoses.

Our patients develop a framework of skills that allow them to re-integrate with their community. From the moment of admission our team focus on individual goal-planning with each patient, and agree on specific behaviours to develop or reduce.

Our 4 self-contained flats further support patient progress by testing their daily living skills, cognition and behavioural management in a safe environment. Patients can then continue their recovery in one of our community settings, The Berkeleys, via slow-stream rehab Althorp, or back in their local area.

Rewards

We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing to 41 after 10 years' service; Life cover; Our newly launched Electric Car scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every day