Senior Staff Nurses Mental Health & Learning Disability

at  St Andrews Healthcare

SALARY: UP TO £38,721 PLUS SHIFT ENHANCEMENTS (DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE)

At St Andrew’s you can enjoy a special sense of pride and belonging – by helping transform the lives of patients, while shaping the future you want for yourself. We’re one of the UK’s leading mental healthcare charities with an excellent and well-deserved reputation as a provider of specialist mental healthcare.
Our commitment to holistic care, safety, recovery and innovative therapies and treatment makes St Andrew’s the perfect place to take your career to a new level. Join us and you’ll be part of a team with a shared focus on people not profits, with all surpluses re-invested to benefit our patients.
You will play a vital role as a valued member of our well established multi- disciplinary team, be responsible and accountable for the delivery of high quality, patient-focused care within our division.

SOME OF THE MAIN DUTIES OF A SENIOR STAFF NURSE ARE TO:

• Plan, organise and deploy staff according to competencies and workload in order to meet patient needs.
• Develop, implement, review and promote the importance of effective outcome focused care plans to meet individual preferences and needs, attending and contributing to ward rounds.
• Effectively communicate with all MDT members, taking positive risks to manage the care environment and reduce the use of restrictive practices.
• Build and monitor ongoing relationships with patients, their families and carers to encourage trust, whilst listening to and interpreting their needs and concerns.
• Ensure all patient records, records of risk and interventions that have been taken, are up to date and accurate.
• Use refection and supervision to learn from events and generate opportunities to improve patient outcomes.
• Receive and provide clinical supervision.
• Support the division to deliver specific outcome measures.
• Complete required ward audits in line with the Clinical Governance strategy.