MH/LD Staff Nurse - Byron Unit, Warrington R&R £6000 applies | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum pro rata (plus area incentive) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | Winwick, WA2 8WA |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6166505/350-SC6051883-A |
Summary
We are looking for Staff Nurses to work within our Byron Unit Service, however moving forward can also be based throughout the division.
At this time, we are not looking to recruit candidates that have not completed their preceptorship. This is subject to change.
The successful candidates will be able to demonstrate strong leadership, compassion and empathy to our patients, improving the quality of care and service delivery within a Learning Disability inpatient environment.
Secure and Specialist Learning Disability Division is responsible for specialised secure mental health and learning disability services. Working across the Secure Division as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will contribute to the delivery of high standards of care and treatment to a challenging group of service users.
We are looking to recruit people with a genuine interest in working in Learning Disabilities, who is caring and self motivated, who works well in a team and who understands the importance of maintaining good quality care to achieve the best outcomes for patients.
Byron ward is an assessment and treatment unit for people with learning disabilities. The aim and function of the ward is to assess, treat and support individuals in relation to mental health and or behavioural concerns. Service users will then be discharged into the community setting.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
For full details of the job description and responsibilities please see the attached job description and personal specification. For any queries, please contact SecureCareCareers@merseycare.nhs.uk
If there are staff internal to the division interested in working at Byron Unit, they are advised to contact their line manager to explore this via the process of divisional mobilisation and service needs.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Apr 2024