Rmn/rnld Nights

As a Staff Nurse you will be working within a team that includes a range of professionals.

You will be central to providing high quality care within a Rehabilitation and Recovery setting. The Service User group includes those with a diagnosis of severe and enduring mental illness including personality disorder.

You will assist and support staff in the management of the unit and to ensure that in their absence, the effective management of the ward is maintained.

To be successful as an RMN/RNLD, you’ll need:

- A relevant nursing qualification and registration
- Excellent team working skills, a high level of self-motivation and a flexible approach - our units operate 24 hours 7 days a week, and our nursing staff work shift patterns including weekends, bank holidays and nights
- A commitment to patient-centred care and to values-based and evidence-based practice
- The drive to continually push your own personal learning and development
- To be able to build effective and credible relationships both internally and externally
- Work collaboratively with others sharing ideas and information at all times
- Effectively build trust with a consistent approach between actions and words
- Have the ability to raise standards through innovation and new ideas
- Take responsibility for issues and resolve them.
- To be able to cope in difficult situations with tact and diplomacy
- To be able to build rapport and positively influence others

To be able to inspire professionalism

Our Staff Nurse role involves:

- Providing leadership and support for support staff and act as a champion for residents’ safety and dignity
- Maintaining skills and knowledge and ensure that care is delivered according to latest guidelines and best practice evidence available
- Ensuring the ongoing safety of service users, residents, staff and visitors through systematic assessment, monitoring and reviewing processes
- Ensuring that clear and accurate records and communication systems relating to clinical and care delivery are maintained and effectively used
- Acting as a role model for good clinical and care governance practice
- Taking charge of the unit regularly and, in the absence of the management team, accepting responsibility for the smooth and effective running of the unit

Helping to maintain the security of the building and its environment

About our benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (at commencement of employment)
- A Group Personal Pension Plan (GPPP)
- Private Medical Insurance Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Free meals while on duty
- Carefirst - Employee Assistance Services
- Continuous learning and development
- Childcare vouchers
- Career development
- Personal health insurance
- An employee assistance programme
- Voluntary Benefits

** NMC Fees paid **

The successful applicant will be supported through a company and site induction which will involve working a variety of shifts to enable them to meet and work alongside the full MDT.

Newly Qualified Nurses will be required to work day and night rotations until successful completion of preceptorship after which they may take up a permanent night post if preferred.

Shift Pattern: A full time contract consists of working 32.25 hours (3 shifts) one week and 43 hours (4 shifts) the second week.

Shift Hours:
Long Day - 0730hrs to 1945hrs

Night Shift - 1930hrs to 0745hrs

Please note there are no permanent day contracts available.

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**About us**:
As one of the UK’s leading providers of behavioural care and specialist support services to adults and young people, Priory Group promise a challenging and fulfilling career with the support of a world class organisation willing to invest in your development.

Across our network of hospitals, residential care homes, education facilities and supported living services, we are making a real and lasting difference to the lives of the people we support.

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