Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

Job overview

Why would you want to work for Staffing Solutions? We offer competitive pay, support with Revalidation, paid Trust training and excellent staffing levels!

We are looking for reliable, enthusiastic and dedicated nurses who pride themselves on providing safe high-quality care to join our rewarding flexible staffing team supporting our inpatient units in Aylesbury.

We know how important your work life balance is and being able to work within an environment that supports this. By joining our flexible team, you can choose shifts that suit your lifestyle and enjoy the variety of working within our different inpatient wards.

You will have a good knowledge base, excellent communication skills and a flexible and positive attitude. You should have a caring, non-judgemental and inclusive attitude and be committed to the delivery of safe, high quality care and have a strong belief in the value of team work.

In return we can offer you competitive pay rate of;

Weekday: £16.84 (£18.95 per hour plus 12.5% of annual leave)

Night/Saturday: £24.63 per hour  (inclusive of 12.5% annual leave uplift WTD)

Sunday/ Bank Holiday : £30.32 per hour  (inclusive of 12.5% annual leave uplift WTD)

For more information : https://careers.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk/staff-bank/ 

Please note:  This post requires valid NMC Registration and Certificate of Preceptorship Completion.

Main duties of the job

  • To be responsible for the co-ordination and management of the ward for a span of duty
  •  To assist in every aspect of the management of an acute inpatient unit
  •  To assess, plan, implement and evaluate care to patients and carers
  •  To provide high quality of holistic nursing care to patients and carers
  •  To contribute to the development of acute inpatient services
  •  To work within both Adult and Children inpatient units should the acuity increase to ensure safe staffing levels.

    • Working for our organisation

    Staffing Solutions is Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trusts internal temporary staffing bank.

    We assist the Trust to meet all its temporary staffing needs, allowing teams to continue to provide high quality care to service users.

    Flexible workers make up an important part of our staffing team and we want to ensure that everyone has the skills and opportunity to provide a caring, safe and excellent service to our patients.

    We’re looking for enthusiastic and motivated flexible workers to join our team today!

    Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  •  Engage proactively engagement with clients and their families/carers/significant others to build positive working alliances.
  •  Work alongside clients and their families/carers/significant others.
  •  Assess needs embracing the wishes of the client in the acute patient setting.
  • Develop effective risk management plans, and timely review of the risk management plan identifying opportunities for positive risk taking in conjunction with the client, carers/significant others and the ward team.
  • Actively engages with the Care Coordinator under CPA to identify appropriate resources to support the clients care package within the hospital setting and within their local home environment
  • Undertake a Carers Assessment and develop Carers care plans.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of medication effects, side-effects, indications, contraindications and recommended dosage.
  • Work with clients with concordance issues and promote client choice.
  • Actively engage clients and carers with PALS service where appropriate.
  • Assess clients progress on the ward through identification of changes in the clients health and social situation in collaboration with the client, carers and the ward team.
  • Co-ordinate and implement plans of care during the clients journey through the inpatient environment.
  • Work with clients and their families / carers/ significant others on symptom management and relapse prevention.

    • Person specification

    Qualifications

    Essential criteria

  • Registered Mental Health Nurse

    • Desirable criteria

  • Skills in clinical risk assessment

    • Management skills/Knowledge

    Essential criteria

  • Able to supervise junior staff
  • Ability to work under own initiative

    • Experience

    Essential criteria

  • Experience and commitment to nursing in Mental Health Inpatient settings
  • Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
  • Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
  • Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
  • We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation and we encourage applications from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our population.
  • Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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