Community Psychiatric Bank Nurse - Ipswich

Community Psychiatric Bank Nurse – Ipswich

Trust: Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust

Locations covered: Mariner House, Ipswich, IP1 2GA

Band 6 – pay rates: £17.79 - £28.46

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

AAT provide a Single Point of Referral (SPoR) service for the whole of Suffolk. We are a multi-disciplinary team with nurses, Social workers, admin and medical staff and accept referrals for people in Suffolk aged 25 and over from GPs and other professional NHS agencies. The referrals are for either an urgent response (72 hour) or routine response (28 day). The team is split into an adult team and a later life team with staff who can specialise to respond to the needs of these client groups. Staff work shifts, either in the duty team ( accepting, screening and triaging) or the assessment team, (providing face to face assessment) either at base in Mariner House or at a satellite base across Suffolk. Staff are required to be able to drive.

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
• Building rapport with patients and their families as well as with colleagues

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.