Registered Nursing Associate | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2024 |
| Location: | Barrow in Furness, LA13 9AZ |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6304119/351-BAY636-EB |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a registered nursing associate.
We are looking for an RNA with a desire to work with people with severe and enduring mental health needs. This is a demanding role in a busy service and ideally, you will have current or previous experience of working within a mental health setting.
You will have a collaborative and enthusiastic approach as well as passion and commitment in developing and promoting recovery based approaches for adults with severe and enduring mental health needs.
For more information please contact us using the details provided.
You will work as a Keyworker within the multidisciplinary team and manage a caseload of service users with a range of complex needs. You will develop care plans and deliver evidence based interventions and treatments to patients, alongside managing risks in the community.
Part of your role will require you to undertake the role of team duty worker. This role involves managing unplanned patient work within the team, responding to escalation of risk/crisis situations and may also include the triaging of new referrals.
You will benefit from encouragement to continue to develop your own specialist knowledge and competence. Your development will be guided using clinical supervision, management supervision, team/peer support, internal and external training opportunities and the Trust’s appraisal process.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Monday 27 May 2024