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Recruiting band 5 nurses!  Join an outstanding mental health Trust!

Swift Ward are seeking a Band 5 Staff Nurse who would either like to start their career as a preceptorship nurse on an inpatient unit or would like a fresh challenge working in an acute setting.  

Swift Ward is a 18 bedded acute mental health assessment and  treatment ward offering acute mental health care to adults. The ward provides mixed sex accommodation and has a multi-disciplinary team including psychologists, occupational therapy, recreational workers as well as the nursing and medical team.

Our staff survey results tell a story of highly engaged, motivated, passionate people working at HPFT. The survey has shown that staff overwhelmingly believe that their role makes a difference to service users, to the extent that HPFT had the best score nationally for this question.

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Come and join our friendly team!

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• be a key member of the Inpatient Team
• be responsible / primary nurse for a designated group of patients
• be responsible for the assessment of their needs and for the planning
• implement and evaluate the care provided to meet service user needs
• provide clinical supervision to junior staff members
• have excellent communication and relationship management skills
• treat patients with fairness and respect, maintaining confidentiality appropriately
• assist the inpatients manager, the team and charge nurses in maintaining standards of care
• be fully involved in ward rounds, handovers and other meetings where patient care is discussed and reviewed as required
• participate in the assessment, admission, transfer and discharge of patients according to local guidelines and standards.

In return, we can offer you:

• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement
• Self rostering
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Flexible working
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
• Employee Assistance Programme

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on…