Senior Nurse

Delphi Care Solutions Ltd is currently supporting an amazing client in the Nottingham NG19 area with recruiting a Mental Health Nurse in a service that provides specialist nurse led care with a supporting multi-disciplinary team for adults with complex needs arising from enduring mental ill health.

Job Title: Senior Nurse

Responsible To: Clinical Lead

Responsible For: Nurses and Support Workers

Location: Mansfield

Working Hours – 35hrs/per week (Days, Nights and Weekends)

Early: 7:15am – 2:30pm

Late: 2:15pm – 9:30pm

Nights: 9:15pm – 7:30am

Salary – £20.25 per hour

Holidays – 33 days annual leave (Annual Leave runs from April 6th to April 5th)

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Job summary

Clinical – To promote and maintain clinical standards within the home to satisfaction of the company and relevant statutory bodies.

Resource Management – To utilise all company resources in a manner which achieves customer satisfaction and cost effectiveness.

General management – To provide complementary, competent and affective general management support and cover.

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Requirements

• Valid NMC PIN – (Essential)
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing – Mental Health / Learning Disabilities – (Essential)
• Minimum 1-2 years’ work experience in mental health nursing/learning disabilities with relevant group of Service Users – learning disabilities, autism and challenging behaviour adults (Essential)
• Good communication (written and verbal), and organizational skills.
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical skills for problem solving.
• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team
• Compassionate and empathetic approach to service users’ care
• Experience in managing service users’ acute episodes
• Good knowledge of capacity assessments and DOL’s
• Good knowledge about autism and LD
• Good restrain trained/knowledge – understanding of restrain reduction network
• Good knowledge about communication programmes for adults with learning or communication difficulties
• Advanced knowledge about medication policies and procedures, related medication electronic systems and regulations
• Experience in writing and updating care plans and risk assessments

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Experience:

• Mental Health Nursing: 1 year (required)
• Learning Disabilities Nursing: 1 year (preferred)
• Physical Disabilities Nursing: 1 year (preferred)
• Residential Care: 1 year (preferred)
• Challenging Behaviour Management: 1 year (preferred)

***Please note that our client is unable to support candidates that require work sponsorship***