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Location

Kendal, Cumbria | United Kingdom

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Job description

STAFF NURSE With £7k recruitment and retention incentive

This vacancy includes an attractive welcome bonus of £3000 and a further £2000 after the 1styear and a further £2000 after the 2ndyear as well as an attractive relocation package of up to £8000

It’s an exciting time to join us at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for Band 5 Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurses to join us in our inpatient services.

Kentmere ward located in Kendal is a 12 bedded mental health unit offering care and treatment to those individual’s who are in the most acute phase of their illness who can not be treated at home.

We are looking for caring, empathetic, enthusiastic individuals who have a passion to improve the lives of our patients. These roles will be to provide care and support to patients who require mental health interventions, guidance or monitoring.

To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team (M.D.T.) to develop person centred holistic care. Maintaining individual’s quality of life whist assessing them for appropriate community placements. This job also entails taking responsibility for the day to day management of the ward as required in support of the ward manager and deputies, including teaching, supervision of junior staff/students. This will also include managing a team within the named nurse model and all aspects regarding the delivery of care. The position requires shift work, including occasional nights, on a rotational basis.

*The Bay £7k Welcome Bonus package applies to this role.

The bonus is only available for people who are not currently employed (or who have not been employed in the last 12 months) by any NHS provider trust in the Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in a like-for-like role; e.g. a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse at another Trust in the LSC ICS would not be eligible for the bonus if moving to a Band 6 Registered Mental Health Nurse role at LSCFT. Bank only workers for Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust are eligible for the scheme if they have not held a substantive role in Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care System in the last 12 months (subject to all other terms and conditions being met). These incentives are subject to recovery clauses within the first 24 months of employment. This bonus is applicable to any successful candidate whose interview for this role is conducted prior to 31st March 2024.
The Bay £7k Welcome Bonus package is designed to attract and retain the very best staff in post. The amount a new starter would receive is shown in the Welcome Bonus Payment Schedule below:
• £3,000 after 2 months of employment (counted from start date with LSCFT)
• £2,000 after 12 months
• £2,000 after 24 months

PLEASE NOTE: This bonus scheme is subject to a Repayment Clause should the post holder leave this role within 24 months of commencing employment.

For more details, please visit our website - Welcome bonus and relocation packages terms and conditions :: Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (lscft.nhs.uk)

If you have any questions, we would be happy to discuss them – please contact [email protected].

This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Feb 2024

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Salary

£7k per annum