Job overview

The Vales are seeking to recruit a dynamic Senior Acute Care Nurse to join their team in their 15 bedded female high dependency rehabilitation inpatient unit at Discovery House. 

Applicants must possess attitudes and values that reflect the excellent standards we are expecting within the Vales team. The Vales provides treatment and interventions for women with severe and enduring mental ill-health in a locked environment to support their ongoing recovery and social integration. The whole service is focused on working towards independence and recovery to enable service users to regain health and mental wellness, before moving on to live as independently as possible in an open environment or their local communities.

In return we will offer the opportunity to be part an excellent and developing team that holds the highest possible values and work ethic within a purpose built environment.

You will have a planned induction and work within a robust framework of regular professional supervision and you will have opportunities for development as your experience increases.

Applicants must be a Registered Nurse in Mental Health or Learning Disability and must be able to work a range of flexible hours to include nights and weekends.

This is a substantive post on the Vales, however, successful candidate will be required at times to support and cover other areas within inpatients 

Main duties of the job

To be clinical leader of the nursing team providing care for people with severe and enduring mental illness, complex trauma mental health disorders.

To provide clinical services that work within the policies, protocols and clinical procedures of Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Trust.

To work as part of a team providing a user-focused, accessible and responsive nursing service that is safe, supportive and competent for people who experience severe and eduring and complex trauma mental health problems.

To assess care needs and develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care for those who are experiencing mental health needs, within agreed limitations.

Patterns of working will be by arrangement and may include evenings, weekends, bank holidays.

Provides management supervision to Band 5’s, band 4’s and band 3’s.

•To undertake managerial duties in the absence of the Ward Manager

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.