Join to apply for the Staff Nurse - Mental Health role at Cheswold Park Hospital
Job Summary
As a Registered Mental Health Staff Nurse, you will deliver safe, effective, and compassionate care to individuals with mental health needs. Your responsibilities include carrying out clinical assessments, planning and implementing evidence‑based interventions, and monitoring progress to support recovery. You will administer medication safely, maintain accurate documentation, and uphold the highest standards of infection control and patient safety. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to care planning, provide emotional support to service users and families, and promote dignity and respect at all times. In addition, you will play an active role in quality improvement, mentoring junior staff, and ensuring compliance with clinical governance frameworks.
About the Trust
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust providing community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the West Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.
Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, delivering high‑quality care in the right place at the right time. We value diversity and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues to share this commitment.
Key Responsibilities
* Carry out comprehensive clinical assessments and develop and implement care plans.
* Administer medication safely and maintain accurate clinical records.
* Ensure compliance with infection control and governance standards.
* Provide emotional support to service users and families, respecting dignity and respect at all times.
* Contribute to service improvement initiatives, including quality improvement and clinical governance.
* Mentor and support junior staff, and participate in clinical and managerial supervision.
* Participate in workforce planning, shift coordination, and resource management.
* Engage in continuing professional development and inform training needs.
Person Specification
Experience (Essential)
* Involvement in a systematic approach to care: assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation.
* Awareness of the Care Programme Approach.
* Experience working with individuals with mental health needs or learning disabilities.
* Knowledge of key worker/primary nurse system.
* Working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Knowledge of collaborative working within a recovery-based model of intervention.
* Clinical/Professional supervision experience.
Experience (Desirable)
* Implementation of the Care Programme Approach.
* Leading and supervising junior/unqualified staff.
* Working with a care pathway approach toward recovery.
* Experience with risk assessment models such as HCR‑20.
* Use of risk tools to support assessment and interventions.
Physical Attributes (Essential)
* Ability to undertake duties in various shift patterns, including nights.
* Satisfactory sickness record over the previous two years.
Special Knowledge & Skills (Essential)
* Good verbal and written communication skills.
* Ability to work with patients therapeutically on a 1:1 basis or in groups.
* Awareness of violence and aggression prevention and management.
* Leadership and motivation of staff.
* Coaching, training, mentoring and acting as a role model.
* Ability to work without direct supervision.
* Flexibility and willingness to travel within the Trust.
Special Knowledge & Skills (Desirable)
* Evidence-based practice.
* Knowledge of recovery models (e.g., Recovery Star, My Shared Pathway).
* Understanding of primary nurse system and clinical supervision concepts.
* Knowledge of psychosocial interventions.
* Awareness of the IMROC model.
* Knowledge of NHS initiatives specific to the clinical service.
Qualifications (Essential)
* Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC register.
Qualifications (Desirable)
* Relevant post‑basic qualifications.
* CBT/PSI qualifications.
* Experience of mentoring/supporting learners.
Values and Behaviours (Essential)
* Commitment to adopt the Trust’s core values and behavioural standards.
* Enthusiasm, motivation, professionalism, resourcefulness, flexibility, common sense, initiative, tact and diplomacy, positive self‑image, effective team member, ability to cope with change, commitment to high clinical standards, reliability.
Training (Essential)
* Commitment to undertaking mandatory training including management of violence and aggression.
* Willingness to undertake training in nursing mentorship.
Disclosures and Legal
This post requires a successful Disclosure and Barring Service check as per the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemptions Order) 1975. Applicants must hold current UK professional registration.
Contract and Salary
Band 5 – £31,049 to £37,796 per annum. Permanent, full‑time, flexible working. Reference number: C9378‑W1395. Locations: Unity Centre, Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield, WF1 3SP.
Application Deadline
Applications are accepted until the vacancy is closed; please apply promptly.
#J-18808-Ljbffr