Job summary
- Main area
- Learning Disabilities
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 444-7648075-LD
- Employer
- Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Brooklands
- Town
- Marston Green
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 5
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
‘We recognise the benefits of flexible working and support applications wherever possible. If you would like to work flexibly please ask the recruiting manager for more information.’
Armed Forces Community welcome to apply.
PLEASE NOTE that this vacancy can be closed as soon as sufficient applications are received. Staff at risk within the Trust will be given priority.
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Job overview
At Brooklands Hospital we are committed to providing the best standard of care and experience for individuals whilst in an inpatient setting, supporting them to gain skills to reach their potential and maintain a good quality of life.
We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Staff nurse for Eden Ward, a Low Secure Unit for up to 8 women with forensic and complex trauma histories. This is interesting, at times challenging, but very rewarding work.
This is an exciting time to join the team .The secure services have been rated "Good" by the CQC and Eden Ward is enrolled in the national Culture of Care programme. We are also working to explore how women's secure care can be transformed and improved.
Main duties of the job
· Take on the role of nurse in charge daily or when delegated by the Unit Manager or Deputy
· Ensure patient observations are carried out and recorded in line with Trust policy.
· Act as named nurse to identified patients providing comprehensive person- centred treatment packages.
· Ensure the safety of patients at all times whilst at the same time promoting positive risk taking.
· Ensure patients are central to and involved in all aspects of their care.
· Supervise staff in line with Trust policies and procedures.
· Ensure continued personal development of self and staff team.
· Have an awareness of relevant national and local policy and the implications for service delivery.
· Participate in the monitoring and maintenance of standards in accordance with Trust and Unit policies and procedures, plus the NMC professional standards.
· Be conversant with legal requirements as laid down by the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act / Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards ensuring practice is within a legal framework
· Inform the Unit manager of professional concerns and promote professional evidenced based practice at all times
· Maintain the physical, procedural and relational safety of patients, colleagues and self in line with current policy and practice
· Engage appropriately in the clinical supervision processes in accordance with Trust policy.
Working for our organisation
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support group
We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Ensure the positive behavioural support model is applied in practice and ensure that restrictive practices are challenged, and that low arousal techniques and practice are implemented.
Ensure that dignity, choice, respect, independence and the rights of the people with learning disabilities and /or autism are maintained at all times, and to immediately raise any concerns.
Develop, monitor and evaluate care packages / risk assessment and make appropriate changes in a timely manner
To have knowledge or be prepared to learn about the CQC requirements within an inpatient setting.
To administer medications responsibly, safely and correctly in accordance with NMC code and Trust medicines polices and guidance, to ensure patient safety.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Nursing qualification Learning Disability: RNMH, RNLD
- Nursing qualification Mental Health: RMN, RNMH Adult Nursing qualification: RGN
Experience
Essential criteria
- A range of experience of working with people with a mental disorder
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
- Lynne Barber
- Job title
- Ward Manager
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