Mental Health Staff Nurse - Adolescent Inpatient Services - Oxford

We are looking for dedicated nurses with a real commitment and empathy in ensuring that high level care is delivered to our young people in the most acute and vulnerable stages of their illness.

By offering a caring and safe environment for providing holistic family centred care you will be involved in delivering a range of interventions dependent upon clinical need.

We will support you in maintaining and developing your clinical skills to a high standard and provide opportunities to work with a wider team of professionals to provide truly intuitive and creative care that goes beyond just clinical tasks.

We are keen to support all our nurses in developing their own leadership skills to enable them to feel competent at managing shift and team coordination and supervising junior staff as well as students. All nurses at the Highfield Unit are encouraged and have the opportunity to develop and lead upon areas of interest. You will be self-motivated about service improvement and passionate about providing quality and creative care to adolescents.

At the Trust, there are opportunities to develop your nursing skills at whatever stage you may be; 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 nurses and paediatric nurses.

Reflection within and on practice is an essential part of development, both within groups and on an individual basis. Highfield Unit has a structured weekly timetable of reflective spaces to ensure everyone has access to support and supervision to enhance their abilities.

Providing consistent and robust round the clock inpatient care is vital. The role importantly involves 24 hours, 7 days a week care therefore shift patterns are in place which will include nights, weekends and bank holidays. We understand the important of a work life balance though, and so if you are looking for part time hours or term time only, please get in touch.

Further information is outlined in the full job description but should you wish to discuss your experience and our requirements in more detail prior to making an application please contact our Unit on highfield.unit@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk to arrange a suitable time for a phone call or a site visit.

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"

At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

Experience

Essential: - Experience in mental health care or the care of young people (e.g. within CAMHS)

Desirable: - Experience of working within an CAMHS inpatient unit

Qualifications/Knowledge

Essential: - RMN/RNLD or RSCN; - Knowledge of MHA 1983

Desirable: - Further training in psychosocial interventions; - Training in clinical risk assessment and management

Skills

Teaching and Facilitation

Essential: - Demonstrate a willingness to be involved in mentoring students

Desirable: - Experience in mentorship

Other work related requirement