Overview
This is an exciting time to join Secure Care Services at Northgate Park, Morpeth due to developments within the service. We are looking for a motivated, hard-working and enthusiastic Nursing Assistants with excellent values to support adults with complex Mental health needs in a secure care setting. We currently have 1 band 3 Nursing Assistant vacancy within Sycamore Medium secure unit within the mental health pathway. The post is on Linhope which is a 12 bedded assessment and treatment ward for men who present with complex mental health conditions and challenges with personality disorder who either have offended or displayed offending type behaviour and pose a significant danger to themselves or the public. The successful applicants will work within a multi-disciplinary team assisting in the development and implementation of collaborative, needs based care plans. They will support the team in providing excellent and effective person-centred care and will, as part of the inpatient team, be visible and accessible to patients, families and carers working together to ensure efficient, effective and caring services.
Responsibilities
* To work within a multi-disciplinary team assisting in the development and implementation of collaborative, needs based care plans.
* To support the team in providing excellent and effective person centred, nursing care.
* They are actively involved in the health and wellbeing of staff and service users.
* They are visible and accessible to patients, families and carers working together to ensure efficient, effective and caring service.
* They contribute to achieving all performance indicators, essential standards and quality outcomes.
* Deliver and maintain high standards of clinical care; implementing individual plans of care based on a person centred assessment.
* Provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity.
* Assist in the delivery of therapeutic clinical based interventions and activities which meet individual needs embracing equality and diversity.
* Engage in regular family/carer contact/support to encourage collaborative decision making.
* Have the courage to speak out, challenge and help inform the future of nursing care.
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
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