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Location

Sandy, Bedfordshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

The Role
To work as part of the service’s Multi-Disciplinary Team supporting women.
To deliver responsive clinical interventions within the residential service and formulate appropriate aftercare plans and support, identifying individual and service needs through capacity assessments, monitoring tools, risk assessment and management plans (RAMPs) and ongoing recovery planning tools.
To support the therapeutic team with recovery planning processes, including assessing, planning, and implementing various interventions whilst supporting women’s mental health needs. Contributing to and taking a lead role alongside managers in clinical meetings and handovers.
To pro-actively consult in designing programmes responsive to individual and group needs in conjunction with the organisations Clinical Interventions Team. Offering a varied programme addressing physical and mental health needs, for example, nutrition, sleep, anxiety management, exercise, behavioural and health & wellbeing interventions etc.
To develop therapeutic alliances with women suing the service to support their individual recovery journeys, offering health promotion, harm reduction advice, screening, and discharge planning.
Contribute to the service delivering a trauma informed care approach, with trauma responsive interventions.
To provide training and guidance to frontline staff and managers in relation to clinical procedures such as medication administration, de-escalation techniques and the use of clinical assessment tools including capacity assessments, CIWA, COWS and Biometrics etc.
To respond to clinical and medical emergencies, managing crises as first line intervention, assessing risk and safeguarding concerns.
To complete weekly medication audits to support managers with monthly if needed.

About You
To join us at Ophelia House you will need:

To have a passion for supporting women to thrive in treatment.
To have empathy for the women using the service.
To understand the impact of traumatic experiences on an individual’s wellbeing and take great care to ensure that people receive the care, support, and kindness they need to help them overcome these experiences and live a positive and fulfilling life.
To understand the importance of enabling people to make their own choices.
To be a registered Mental Health Nurse, with a current and valid registration with the NMC and a legal right to work in the UK.
A clear understanding of the need for and ability to deliver high quality person-centred recovery services.
To be able to demonstrable experience or interest in the addiction field.
To have a willingness to learn recovery principles and how these can be supported by clinicians.
To be able to demonstrable knowledge of harm reduction and health promotion interventions.
To have the ability to prepare written reports as necessary.
To be able to demonstrate skills to undertake administrative duties.
To have working knowledge of residential and community-based addiction services, substitute clinical prescribing and detox regime (NB: It is not essential that you have experience within addiction services, but you must be able to demonstrate your interest in the field of mental health nursing and show how you have worked to gain experience, transferable skills, and how you have come to be interested in drug and alcohol recovery services)
Please note, we will be assessing applications as they are submitted and may close this role should we find sufficient applicants with which to make our shortlist. As such, we would advise applying as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and believe it is important to include people with lived experience to ensure the needs of the people we support are represented. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment where everyone is free to be themselves and we ensure equity of opportunity.

So, if you’re seeking your next challenge as a Mental Health Nurse, please get in touch or apply today

Your Rewards

Clinical Supervision
Starting salary of £40,000 with opportunity to access potential yearly salary increments subject to appraisal, meaning potential salary increase up to £45,500.
25 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays (increasing each year to a maximum of 30 days)
NMC yearly registration will be reimbursed.
Brand new refurbished service with staff changing rooms and shower.
Free Car parking
Benefits including season ticket loan, pension scheme and life assurance.
Support through occupational sick pay, eye-care vouchers and regular wellbeing talks and activities.
Continuous training and career development via PXL our dedicated learning management system
Access to a 24/7 Employee Assistance programme including telephone and online access.
A rewarding role with the opportunity to help us support women on their journey to recovery and change their lives for the better.
We’ll ensure you get all the support you need to thrive and succeed in your role and find your place amongst our incredible and collaborative team.

This role will be working in a women’s-only residential service specialising in providing safe therapeutic environments for those who have experienced multiple disadvantage and those who have experienced past trauma. Therefore there is an Operational Requirement for this role to be fulfilled by a female (determined compliant under ACAS guidelines for recruiting applicants with a protected characteristic to do a certain job).[1]

[1] Using protected characteristics in recruitment: Recruitment: hiring someone - Acas

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Salary

£40k per annum