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Senior Staff Nurse Mental Health or Learning Disabilities

Employer
Sterling Cross
Location
Dawlish, Devon, England
Salary
£28,050 - 36,644 per year
Closing date
17 Mar 2019

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Sector
Mental Health Nursing
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Location: Dawlish, Devon

Salary: Band 6 (£28050 - £36644)

Description: Our client provides mental health services to around 890,000 people living in Devon (excluding Plymouth). They provide services for adults, older people, people with alcohol and substance misuse issues, people with a learning disability and people who need forensic or secure mental health services. Their services focus on personal recovery, wellbeing and independence. The hospital has recently been rated as “Outstanding” by the CQC and the directorate has a keen focus on nurse training and development with the opportunity to rotate through the community forensic team, the prison healthcare teams and the various wards (medium secure, low secure and open).

The Directorate provides forensic mental health services for the south west region and has an excellent reputation. They support people who, as a consequence of their mental health needs, have had contact with the criminal justice system and require a safe and secure environment that enables them to receive a wide range of treatments, therapies and care to support their recovery.  Recovery is at the heart of everything they do - it is about people building a meaningful life and represents a shift away from focusing on illness and symptoms towards a focus on personal health, strengths and wellness.

The site is a 111 acre campus-style site which includes the recently-opened medium secure unit, a £27 million state-of-the-art ‘medium secure’ unit, as well as a number of ‘low secure’ and open wards.

Person Specification:

The Trust are looking for a Senior Staff Nurse to join their secure services team providing mental health and treatment and care for those who need it.

In this exciting role you will use your extensive skills and experience as a professional nurse to plan programmes of care and therapeutic intervention. You will help to ensure the quality of care is consistent and that staff understand their roles and responsibilities.

As well as direct engagement with patients, you will lead inductions, deliver training and support junior members of the team to realise their potential. You will be responsible for care certificate training, our assistant practitioner programme and DPT’s Four Steps to Safety programme, alongside many others.

This is a diverse and challenging role that would be suitable for a confident, skilled and dedicated nurse who wants to make a difference. The Trust will offer you the opportunity to grow and develop in one of the UK’s most progressive mental health trusts.  Shifts include early and late shift with a rota band 6 on night duty.

Benefits: Fantastic benefits package includes 41 days paid leave, Pension scheme up to 14.5%, childcare vouchers, flexible working hours, pay progression. Free parking, staff gym and up to £8,000 relocation

Company

Sterling Cross is the UK’s leading specialist recruiter of vacancies within NursingPharmacyRadiography,  and Allied Health. We offer a  unique recruitment service to nurses, pharmacists, radiographers, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, optometrists and biomedical scientists,  which will significantly lower the costs associated with press advertising and traditional recruitment agencies, therefore generating vacancies that perhaps you would not ordinarily hear about! 

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