The Senior Staff Nurse will promote teamwork, uphold the Trust's values, and lead clinical practices while delivering supervision and conducting audits. Responsibilities also include participating in the multidisciplinary team to assess, plan, and monitor care for inpatient service users, ensuring meaningful activities are integrated into their care. This role offers opportunities for clinical development in an inpatient setting, requiring strong interpersonal and leadership skills to facilitate staff growth and foster an environment conducive to wellbeing.
We have the opportunity to recruit a Senior Staff Nurse to join our team on Seagrove Ward which is a six-bed mixed Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) on the Isle of Wight.
As a Senior Staff Nurse, you must be able to provide clinical leadership and motivation to develop junior staff, whilst also maintaining high professional standards and demonstrating commitment to staff development and patient care. This is a clinical role and whilst there is an ongoing need for Deputy Ward Managers; this band 6 role will differ from the traditional Deputy Ward Manager's role.
We are looking for a highly motivated staff nurse who can demonstrate excellent clinical and interpersonal qualities. The successful candidate must be willing to work in fast paced environment; have a positive outlook and ensure that delivering a high quality service, which genuinely engages with service users, carers and other stakeholders, is a key priority.
The post is open to a secondment or fixed term contract for 17 months to cover maternity leave. The post is 30 hours per week and the expectation is that this will be a mix of early, late & night shifts. If there is a strong preference for working long days this may be discussed. There will also be an expectation to rotate onto nights at times.
The successful post holder may be expected to rotate across the specialty areas and be able to work shifts covering 24 hours, seven days a week.
This post will provide clinical development / progression opportunities for an experienced nurse who aspires to work within the inpatient environment longer term.
You will be required to have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to aid staff development and demonstrate sound leadership skills. You will promote and maintain high standards of care, whilst supporting and assisting to implement local and national improvement strategies and initiatives.
Inpatient wards / units are designed to meet the holistic needs of service users/patients and carers, in a working environment conducive to staff development and wellbeing. The post holder supports the delivery of the ward / unit through:
Actively promoting teamwork, respect, integrity, accountability, excellence and compassion within the clinical team in accordance with the Trust values and code of conduct.
Demonstrating clinical leadership and oversight in terms of the clinical practice of others.
Delivering Clinical Supervision to Junior Staff, acting as the shift lead and carrying out clinical audits where necessary.
Providing nurse leadership within the multidisciplinary team and ensuring the effective assessment formulation planning and monitoring of care given to inpatient service users; including the implementation of meaningful activity for inpatient service users and to analyse the effectiveness of these activities.
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Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone -- if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team -- detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
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