Community Psychiatric Bank Nurse - Bury St Edmunds

Community Psychiatric Bank Nurses

Trust: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust

Locations covered: Your Pathway, Bury IDT, G Block, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3NR

Band 6 – pay rates: £17.79 - £28.46

Full Time, 37.5 hours, Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 17:00pm

We are looking for imaginative and determined Band 6 Registered Nurses with mental health experience to work at G Block, Bury St Edmunds.

This includes support for children and their families, adolescents, working age and older adults, and individuals with a learning disability. We provide clinical interventions to address complex mental health needs, as well as certain specialist difficulties such as ADHD and autism. We have a range of qualified and experienced clinicians including doctors, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, support workers, psychologists and psychological therapists.

Duties will include:

• A mixture of direct clinical work, care coordination, groups and team working
• Managing your own caseload
• Deliver a wide range of evidence based individual and group interventions
• Analysing and thinking about what a young persons needs are and if they need input from a secondary service
• Building rapport with young people

Successful applicants will:

• Have at least 6 months hospital experience completed in the last 2 years as a Permanent, Agency or Bank General/Adult Nurse in a UK Private Hospital, UK Prison or within an NHS or UK Private Mental Health Community Setting
• Have valid NMC registration
• Knowledge and demonstration of the use of evidence based care
• Excellent communications skills
• Ability to maintain a high standard of record keeping
• Psychologically minded

In return NHS Professionals will offer you:

• Flexibility and control over your working life by joining the NHSP bank you’ll gain access to the best choice of available shifts
• Competitive, weekly pay
• Access to the NHSP Stakeholder Pension
• Paid Annual leave (subject to qualifying criteria)
• Training and development opportunities

NHS Professionals is the leading provider of managed flexible workforce services to the NHS with approximately 40,000 nurses, doctors, administration and clerical and other healthcare professionals signed to its bank. We help our 62 NHS Trust clients implement tactical measures to improve workforce efficiency and productivity as part of an overall workforce strategy.

Please note that you will be contacted via email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails regularly.

We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.