Acute Recovery Team Nurse - Neuromodulation Service - 12 month Secondment - Band 5

Job Overview

Acute Recovery Team Nurse Secondment - Neuromodulation Service

12 months secondment - Band 5

Come and Join Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, where we offer a wide variety of challenging and rewarding roles within a supportive, innovative and dynamic work environment!

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Nurse to join our busy clinic team within the Directorate of Mental Health. The post is based at the Bradgate Mental Health Unit within the Neuromodulation Service and the successful candidate will work alongside the existing team.

This is a full-time secondment post and the hours of work are 08:00 16:00 Monday to Friday. (Please also note that while this job role is a secondment (fixed term), this post may become permanent)

We welcome applicants who are Registered Psychiatric Nurses or Dual Qualified Nurses.

The Role

The role will be helping to run our busy clinics and assist in the ongoing development of our service.

The successful candidate would be able to demonstrate good leadership skills and be organised with excellent communication skills.

We recognise that applicants may be unfamiliar with our service so full support and training will be provided.

We also operate our service at satellite clinics within Leicestershire and the successful applicant will be expected to participate in these.

The team consists of 13 staff with admin support and a peer support worker.

The health and wellbeing of our team members is very important to us and we offer a robust induction period, as well as regular supervision and support. You will have opportunities to progress your career with a structured learning journey that will enable you to achieve your long-term goals and work to your strengths.

We Also Offer

• A generous pension contribution and holiday allowance starting at 27 days, increasing to 29 days after 5 years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service
• Free onsite parking
• Access to a wide range of additional benefits (attached) such as discounted shopping, recognition schemes and various other packages you can draw from to help support your work-life balance
• Health and Wellbeing Support
• Various Staff Support Networks
  
  

Contact Details

If you are interested in this post and feel you would like further information, an informal chat, or would like to arrange a visit, please contact andy.thompson6@nhs.net, nicola.cessford@nhs.net, alexandra.hawkins1@nhs.net or ellen.moyo@nhs.net.

Alternatively, please call us on 0116 225 2677.

Job Description Summary (Main Duties And Responsibilities)

As an Acute Recovery Team Nurse, you will have the opportunity to develop your practice to function within a specialist clinic service, access to national training and the opportunity to work with our UHL colleagues (ECT clinic)

You will attend regular meetings with regional ECT staff to develop the nurse role within ECT, the opportunity to develop and attend regional meetings for rTMS and attendance at national conferences.

The Clinics We Currently Offer Include

• Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
• Clozapine clinic
• Olanzapine clinic
• rTMS clinic
• ECG clinic
  
  

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible.

About Us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information including AI in our recruitment process can be found in the Information for Applicants document attached.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the c

ost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.