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Opportunity to join an innovative and forward thinking team!- Applications open to RMN/RNLD

Cove Ward is a 15 bed acute Older Persons mental health unit, treating functional mental health conditions in a supportive and therapeutic environment. This is an exciting and emerging specialty where we treat patients who present with functional mental health issues and are clinically frail, with a variety of complex physical comorbidities. 

Cove Ward is developing innovative and quality improvement programmes, to provide high quality patient centred care. We are currently on our journey to obtain national accreditation and the post holder, will have the opportunity to partake in quality improvement programmes in addition to their clinical care delivery. We are looking for passionate and dedicated individuals who wish to join us on our journey to excellence. 

If you are looking to work somewhere that is unconditionally respectful to service users and their families, that value their staff as individuals and continuously strives to be the best unit it can be then we could be the team for you.

Given the nature of our clinical work, we are accepting applicants who are either RMN/RNLD registered.  We also welcoming applicants from students who are due to qualify in the coming months.

Full and Part time available, both day and night shift working is required to fulfil this post.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and may be required to teach other nursing and non-nursing staff.
• To provide designated named nurse responsibility for a number of patients.
• To provide leadership, supervision and support to junior staff both qualified and unqualified in the absence of the Clinical Team Leader and Unit Manager during the course of the normal shift pattern, and to ensure the efficient and effective use of resources available to deliver a high standard of quality care to service users. 

Working for our organisation

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.