Bank Staff / Senior Staff Nurse - Band 5 - Mansfield

Bank Staff / Senior Staff Nurses – Band 5 – Mansfield
Ref: 002557

Hourly rates of pay: £10.65 to £12.70 per hour plus enhancements for unsocial hours (nights / weekends / bank holidays)

About St Andrew’s Healthcare Mansfield

St Andrew’s Healthcare in Nottinghamshire is the ideal place to develop your career. Located in Mansfield, we are within easy reach of the rest of the East Midlands area. Our expert teams offer a range of comprehensive, specialist care for 63 adult male service users who have been diagnosed with learning disabilities and Autistic Spectrum Disorders. We offer relational, procedural and physical security provision, and support people with complex behavioural and cognitive needs. We have multidisciplinary teams made up of healthcare assistants, nurses, psychologists and occupational therapists, speech & language and physiotherapists.

Why join us?
If you would like greater freedom and flexibility in your working life, this could be the ideal opportunity for you. We are a growing charity and we take as much care of our people as our service users. So whatever your circumstances, we can offer you the flexible hours you need to fit around your lifestyle.

We would like to hear from both experienced and newly qualified MH/LD nurses that have completed their preceptorship who would like to support an organisation committed to the quality of service user care and that encourages innovation to continually improve our mental health care services. St Andrew’s staff and senior staff nurses in the delivery of care plans as part of the clinical team and will support our healthcare assistant’s ongoing training and development. Ideally you will have worked in a secure services environment caring for the same or similar service user groups and you will be NMC registered.

For a senior position you will need to demonstrate previous experience of resource planning, participation in setting standards of service user care and have a minimum of 6 months post qualification experience. All successful candidates will demonstrate sound professional practice and flexibility in their approach to nursing, together with excellent verbal and written communication skills and will exhibit attitudes and behaviours reflective of St Andrew’s vision and values. Rate of pay will depend on experience.

Successful candidates must be able to attend one full week’s induction before undertaking any duties on the wards, and at least one further full week of training within their first few months of joining the St Andrew’s nursing bureau.

Unless specifically commissioned in advance, St Andrew’s will not consider applications submitted by or through agencies.

All positions within St Andrew’s are subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.
All shortlisted candidates will be contacted via email. The interview process will take

approximately 2 hours and will include a variety of elements to assess candidate’s suitability.