Staff Nurse [Band 5 - Male PICU] | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 20 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2024 |
| Location: | Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 9RW |
| Company: | Pennine Care NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6326653/311-F605-24-B |
Summary
Do you enjoy working in a compassionate environment, want to learn and develop new skills, enjoy working with a variety of service users, all with very different needs and work with people in crisis to help them with their recovery, then this job is for you!
An opportunity has arisen for a Staff Nurse to join our Psychiatric Intensive Care Team – this comes at an exciting time, as we have recently moved into our new, purpose built, 10 bedded unit.
- Act as named nurse / key worker for an identified group of service users ensuring the assessment, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
- To co-produce collaborative care plans for service users and undertake service users’ activities as appropriate ensuring a high standard of care.
- Adhere to appropriate policies, procedures and guidelines.
- Liaise with the wider multidisciplinary team to enhance the standard of care service users receive.
- Engage in the management of de-escalation in conflict situations through adherence to Prevention Management of Violence and Aggression (PMVA) techniques.
- Undertake gate keeping assessments for admission to PICU in the absence of the Clinical Pathway Team
- Assist the team to ensure the management of a safe clinical environment by undertaking ward safety checks
- Carry out observations on patients and document them in line with trust policy
- To safely administer controlled drugs and all other medication in accordance with Medicines’ Management Policy and NMC guidance.
- Act as Shift Leader ensuring the smooth running of the ward area and participating in an effective hand over period, ensuring good communications at all times.
- Promote a safe environment in line with clinical risk assessments and to ensure all incidents are reported electronically.
- Ensure that clinical practice is line with least restrictive principles.
Our team provides short-term intensive assessment, treatment, and support to Service Users, who maybe experiencing a mental health crisis, and often present with a variety of complex mental health needs.
To maximise Service User recovery, the teams will be working in a trauma informed way and utilising the RAID model of care. Our aim is to work in the least restrictive way as possible whilst maintaining patient safety.
Upon joining our team, we will ensure that successful candidates undergo both mandatory and bespoke training, to fully equip them with the skills required to work within our PICU environment
-To act as the named nurse with responsibility for the overall care of an identified group of Service Users.
-To regularly act as shift leader ensuring the smooth running of the clinical area and best utilisation of resources available, with support from other senior staff.
-The post holder will be responsible for keeping professionally updated in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Council requirements and for participating in clinical reflection through
clinical supervision.
-The post holder will be accountable for their behaviour on duty and will be responsible for reporting anything untoward to a senior member of staff
This advert closes on Monday 3 Jun 2024