Nights Senior Staff Nurse – Elgar Ward
Neuropsychiatry
Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire
Salary: Up to £39,496 + 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.
Elgar Ward:-
A 12-bed service for adult women who have an acquired/traumatic brain injury and require programmes of care that enhance recovery and community reintegration.
Elgar is a female admission service where we are able to provide continuous support and interventions to address a range of behavioural and cognitive issues, including inappropriate social behaviour and risk of self-harm. We support patient progress by testing and consolidating their daily living skills, cognition and behavioural management in a safe environment, with the support of a full Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT). After treatment and care from the ward, patients are supported to progress to less restrictive environments at St Andrew’s, 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; 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), increasing after 10 years’ service; Life cover; Electric Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications. On-site facilities such as gym and swimming pool access and cafés all set within beautiful grounds.
Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every