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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

About
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning disability and social care services of the highest standard due to our continued commitment to quality and service improvement. We aim to support people of all ages to achieve the very best they can for their health and well being. To ensure that we achieve this goal we look to recruit candidates of a high calibre that share our passion for delivering excellent service user care, research and education.
Contact
- Address
- Elizabeth House
- Fulbourn Hospital
- Fulbourn
- Cambridge
- Cambridgeshire
- CB21 5EF
- Contact Number
- 0800 953 7016
Staff Nurse
Closed for applications on: 30-Jan-2025 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 30-Jan-2025 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Fulbourn Hospital
- Address
- Cambridge Road
- Town
- Fulbourn
- Postcode
- CB21 5EF
- Major / Minor Region
- Cambridgeshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift work including early, late, night)
Salary
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Mental Health Nursing
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Staff Nurse post on Mulberry 2. Mulberry 2 is a 16 bedded acute mental health treatment ward.
At CPFT, our adult inpatient wards operate an exciting, ambitious model of care, known as the 3-3-3 model; focussed on providing the right care at the right time. The Cambridge Wards are known as the Mulberry Wards; Mulberry 1 our Acute Assessment Unit, where patients stay up to 3 days, Mulberry 2, our Treatment ward, where patients stay up to 3 weeks, and Mulberry 3, our Recovery Unit, where patients stay up to 3 months.
The team have invested heavily in the development of our staff. All staff will receive comprehensive training designed to support the operationalisation of the 3-3-3 model and the core skills required. In addition, our team actively support staff to access training and development opportunities
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The wards bold model requires staff to have a commitment to teamwork, a sense of accountability, and an ability to work well under pressure when required.
If you are successful, we will support you in providing quality evidence-based nursing care for our service users with mental and physical health needs. As a staff nurse you will interact frequently with carers and families providing support and advice where appropriate.
You will be working as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and will be responsible for supporting and leading on the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care on a rotational shift basis. We will expect you to have a good level of knowledge of local, national policies and legislation which govern current service provision.
We will expect you to identify and contribute to the training needs of junior registered and unregistered staff and ensure that issues of equality, diversity and rights are dealt with in accordance with good practice and legislation.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
To carry out a full range of registered nurse duties, including assessment,
planning, implementation and evaluation of the patient’s condition and care with support from the nurse in charge.
To establish therapeutic relationships with service users, and the implementation of evidence based therapeutic interventions with appropriate boundaries in accordance with NMC professional code of conduct.
To understand NICE quality standards and guidance relevant to area of practice and patient group.
To prioritise nursing care, recognise deterioration in a patient’s condition and alert senior staff immediately.
Participate in the health education and explanation of treatment to patients and relatives.
Maintain a safe environment when caring for patients, including those requiring enhanced levels of monitoring.
To promote involvement of service users, carers, and relatives within the service and for its provision.
To ensure that the requirements of the Mental Health Act 2007 are observed, adhered to, and implemented.
To escort patients in line with Trust Policy.
To promote service user and carer involvement within the service and for its provision.
To provide holistic care that incorporates excellence in physical health care
management.
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
- Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
- Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
- Children and young people’s mental health services;
- Children’s community services in Peterborough;
- Social care;
- Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Mental Health (RNMH) or Registered Nurse Learning Disability (RNLD)
- NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate qualification relating to ward specialism
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of in-patient services and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Working with people with mental health difficulties/learning disability
- Managing challenging behaviour
Desirable criteria
- Experience of providing mentorship
- Experience relating to ward specialism
- Lived experience of mental health
- Experience of providing individual, culturally sensitive care
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, including IT literacy (MS Office).
- Ability to act as a role model, empowering and motivating other team members
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care
- Ability to assess and communicate risk
- Knowledge of mental health presentations and appropriate interventions
- Ability to use own initiative, to enable contribution to a multi-disciplinary team approach
- Ability to advocate for the service users and colleagues that your supporting
Desirable criteria
- Assertiveness skills
- Decision making, delegation and problem-solving skills
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential criteria
- Understanding of care planning using Positive Behavioural Support (PBS)
- Awareness of safeguarding issues and responsibilities under relevant legislation
- Basic understanding of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
- Knowledge of NICE guidance relevant to field
- Understanding of the principles of least restrictive practice
Desirable criteria
- Basic understanding of legislation relating to care including - Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Act, Children’s Act, Equality Act 2010, Health and Safety Act and the Data Protection Act
- Awareness of supervision and reflective practice
Physical Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to carry out patient care including manual handling and physical interventions
- Ability to participate in full rotational shifts
Other
Essential criteria
- Motivated to provide the highest standard of care in a changing service
- Awareness of equal opportunities in the workplace
- Recognise people’s right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
- Willingness to follow instruction but also able to question and challenge
- Interest in user and carer involvement
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Simon Bethell
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 219613
No longer accepting applications
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