Here at the CAMHS PICU, the nursing team will be at the heart of the unit and are central to inpatient care delivery.
We are currently seeking a number of full and part time Staff Nurses to join the Meadow Unit.
You will work alongside a dedicated and robust multidisciplinary team to ensure that quality care is planned for and achieved.
There are opportunities to develop your nursing career whatever stage you may be at. Whether this be as a newly qualified nurse wanting to build a solid foundation of knowledge within inpatient mental health care, or for those at a later stage in their career looking for new learning opportunities and challenges. We strive to recruit a variety of nurses from different fields to ensure holistic care is delivered, this includes mental health nurses, learning disability nurse and paediatric nurses.
As a member of the nursing team you would be supported to work collaboratively with young people and their families to build therapeutic relationships, along with other professionals involved in their care. Training and supervision is provided to develop individual and group therapeutic work. We pride ourselves on nurturing and supporting nurses to deliver professional, thoughtful, high quality compassionate nursing care when young people need it the most.
Responsibilities
* Engage proactively with young persons and their families/carers/significant others to build positive working relationships.
* Make a systematic and comprehensive assessment/re-assessment of patient need within the CPA framework to take account of all aspects of the young persons life, including:
1. Individual history
2. Strengths, individual goals and resources
3. Mental state, signs and symptoms
4. Health and social care needs including factors relating to the impact of culture, race, gender, social class and lifestyle
5. Risk assessment
6. Functional needs
7. Family needs
8. Complex needs such as substance use
9. Participation in Mental Health Act (1983) Assessments
* Develop effective risk management plans, and timely review of the risk management plan identifying opportunities for positive risk taking in conjunction with the patient, carers/significant others and the ward team.
* Actively engages with the Care Coordinator under CPA to identify appropriate resources to support the young persons care package within the hospital setting and within their local home environment, including:
1. Housing
2. Social welfare and income
3. Leisure
4. Education
* Contribute towards supporting family members and carers to be as involved as required in the care of the young person.
* Demonstrate knowledge of medication effects, side-effects, indications, contraindications and recommended dosage.
* Demonstrate competency in physical aspects of physical monitoring (e.g. blood pressure, blood glucose level etc).
* Work with young persons with concordance issues and promote patient choice.
* Actively engage young persons and carers with the PALS or Advocacy service where appropriate.
* Co-ordinate and implement plans of care during the young persons journey through the inpatient environment and demonstrate clear written communication to support such plans.
* Work with young persons and their families/carers/significant others on symptom management and relapse prevention.
* Evaluate plans of care in collaboration with the patient as an ongoing process and able to make recommendations for changes in the care package.
* Model healthy eating behaviours for all young people.
* Work to develop effective multidisciplinary relationships through skilled communication with the ward and community teams.
* Convey clearly, accurately and concisely patient information to colleagues in team meetings, ward rounds, handovers and all other verbal communications.
* Following support and training to be involved in co-facilitating groups on the unit; there is a wide range available including DBT informed skills, psychodynamic groups and be involved in the development of other unit groups.
* Work alongside the multidisciplinary team collaborating with the young person and their family or carers to develop Positive Behaviour Support plans.
* All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
* Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
* We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
* Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
* We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects our communities that we serve.
* We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent.
* We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Benefits
* Excellent opportunities for career progression
* Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
* 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
* NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
* Competitive pension scheme
* Lease car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Mental Health First Aiders
* Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
* Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you're excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community.
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team". Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent".
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