Job summary
- Main area
- Forensic
- Grade
- 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (24/7 shift pattern (including nights and weekends))
- Job ref
- 301-LG-25-7192193
- Employer
- Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hatherton Centre / Norton House, St George's Hospital
- Town
- Stafford
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Nursing Associate
4
Job overview
Qualified Nursing Associate
Hatherton Centre, MPFT
Band 4
Are you a newly qualified Nursing Associate looking for a dynamic and rewarding role in mental health care? Or are you an experienced NA ready to expand your skills in a specialist environment?
MPFT is excited to offer an opportunity for Registered Nursing Associates to join the team at the Hatherton Centre – a medium secure forensic mental health unit providing care for individuals with complex mental health needs and a history of involvement with the criminal justice system.
As a Nursing Associate in our team, you’ll be part of a multidisciplinary group providing compassionate, high-quality care to service users in a secure and structured environment. This setting offers the opportunity to:
Develop your clinical and communication skills in a unique forensic mental health setting
Work alongside experienced Registered Nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, and other professionals
Contribute to care planning, risk management, and therapeutic interventions
Gain experience that can support future career development toward becoming a Registered Nurse (if desired)
We are seeking applicants who:
Are Registered Nursing Associates, holding current NMC registration
Demonstrate a caring, compassionate approach to patient care
Are committed to promoting recovery, dignity, and respect
Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Are flexible and able to work across a 24/7 shift pattern
Main duties of the job
The Hatherton Centre, located in Stafford, provides a secure, supportive environment for men with mental health disorders requiring forensic care pathways.
You will support the appropriate assessment of mental and physical health of service users being cared for within an inpatient setting and ensuring the delivery of safe and effective care in line with individuals care and treatment plans and recovery action plan.
If you're a Registered Nursing Associate looking for a career that challenges, supports, and inspires you every day, we would love to hear from you. Join us and be part of a team that’s making a real difference in people’s lives.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main duties and responsibilities
• Work under the supervision of a Registered Nurse or other registered care professional as appropriate.
• Be accountable for own actions or omissions ensuring mindfulness of the NMC Code of Conduct for Nurses, Midwives and Nursing Associates.
• Demonstrate skills to maintain professional standards of record keeping.
• Follow all information governance guidance, standards and policies.
• Maintain confidentiality as outlined within data protection policies
• Identify the need for policy development and or amendment to existing policies to ensure safe and effective inter-professional clinical care delivery.
• Share ideas with colleagues to improve care and suggest areas for innovation.
• Participate in audit activities being undertaken in area of practice or across the service.
• Contribute to the improvement of service by reflecting on own practice and supporting that of others.
• Adhere to legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines both local and national.
• Regularly attend workplace and staff engagement meetings and contribute positively to discussions about the improvement of care.
• Continue to develop and improve practical and theoretical knowledge, competence and skills and maintain all evidence required.
• Contribute towards developing a culture of learning and innovation, developing high quality learning environments
• Awareness of safety and security.
• Act in the best interest of the patients and their family.
• Provide nursing care that is person centred, safe and compassionate.
• Use the knowledge and experience to make evidence based decisions and solve problems.
• Recognise and work within the limits of their competence as defined by the NMC standards of proficiency for Nursing Associates.
• Be able to identify own role boundaries.
• Be responsible for own actions and omissions and escalate concerns appropriately.
• Support service users to improve and maintain their mental, physical, behavioural health and wellbeing.
*Please see the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details.*
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register.
- Educated to a minimum level 5 Foundation degree level specific to Nursing Associate practice.
- Care certificate.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with people with Mental Health needs and managing their physical health as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Placement experience covering all four fields of nursing.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working in a healthcare setting.
- Understand the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in the context of the team and the organisation, and how the role contributes to service development.
- Understands and acts in line with the NMC professional standards for practice contained within the code.
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice.
- Understands the importance of following procedures and treatment plans.
- Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in forensic/ mental health services.
- Experience of working with people who may have complex physical and mental health needs.
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities.
- Ability to organise and prioritise own delegated workload.
- Ability to deal with non- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient/ service user contact.
- Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non- verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Intermediate IT skills including sound working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Outlook.
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Be willing to accommodate flexible working, and motivated to be solution focused with regard to meeting the competing needs and demands of the service.
- Evidence of having maintained a portfolio of learning as an element of continual professional development.
- Demonstrates an ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Russell Cope
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 790 7000
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