Specialist Nurse

Job summary

Are you a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse / Mental Health-Learning Disabilities. Do you enjoy a challenge and have a passion for promoting recovery?

Ullswater House are looking to recruit a Band 6 Specialist Nurse to join our established multi-disciplinary team.

Ullswater House is a 10 bedded Learning Disability forensic ward. All patients are detained under the mental health act and deliver high quality, person centred interventions, assessment and treatment, utilising a trauma informed model and approach.

The successful candidate must be committed, motivated and have an empathetic and understanding approach to the people who access our service. They need to have an appropriate level of self-awareness and the ability to utilise their initiative when working with often complex and challenging situations.

The candidate will also be expected to provide senior leadership and supervision to junior staff across the service and therefore would benefit from having a high level of clinical knowledge and experience of offering value based, value recovery-focused interventions that facilitate recovery.

The successful candidate will be given regular supervision, guidance and support. There will be opportunities for further development and training.

Main duties of the job

As part of the forever adapting role the successful candidate will be required to:

• Provide and receive routine information requiring reassurance, empathy and de-escalation skills.
• Demonstrate good interpersonal skills when managing individuals with complex needs.
• To support patients throughout their admission including supporting individuals during their crisis period.
• To help facilitate therapeutic intervention and distraction techniques for our service users.
• To work effectively as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
• To support the management team in providing clinical and professional leadership to nurses within own area of responsibility.
• To support the team with the implementation of policy, protocol, service/practice development and change within own area of responsibility.
• To continue to demonstrate specialist clinical skills in practice and provide support/advice i.e. service development and the delivery of care, in partnership with service users, carers, staff, managers and other agencies.
• To support the leadership team in completing AUDITS.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

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