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Are you a Mental Health Nurse with supervisory or leadership experience? Are you looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? If so, you are in luck. 

You will be joining our Older Adults and Dementia Mental Health Baswich Ward at St Georges Hospital in Stafford.

Baswich Ward is an assessment ward mainly covering South Staffordshire, though sometimes we have patients from other areas. We provide care for males and females with possible or diagnosed organic mental illnesses such as dementia.

In this role you will take the lead for quality and clinical interventions on the ward and be an active member of a collective leadership group. You will be responsible for guiding and undertaking clinical assessments, in accordance with clinical pathways, in order to establish the person’s needs, goals, risks and strengths in order to generate a formulation based care plan agreed with all involved.  And you will also be expected to be available for consultation, support and clinical supervision to other health professionals working on the ward.

Main duties of the job

• Participate in the setting and agreeing of clinical and educational standards for the service, and develop systems to enable such standards to be measured and evaluated.
• Develop effective communications within the area of responsibility and promote positive working relationships with individuals, departments and other agencies of care within the community area and plan for the future development of the service to meet the needs of the clients.
• Ensure that manpower resources are utilised to their fullest extent and make sure that managers are aware of developments, service needs and priorities within the area.
• Establish and shape a climate within which appropriate attitudes, knowledge and skills of the staff are brought together and developed.
• Demonstrate an active clinical involvement in the service, assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating multi-disciplinary input into, individual care programmes.
• Provide evidence based specialist clinical advice within the service and contribute to the development of future service provision.
• Monitor workload management within the service, taking appropriate action if required.
• Responsible for participating in the setting of quality standards, including the auditing, monitoring and reviewing of practice in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
• Act as a clinical supervisor

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, adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
• 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 vaccination every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. 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.