Staff Nurse

An opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic individuals to join our inpatient specialist dementia ward based in Exeter. We are looking for people with post registration experience who are passionate about nursing. The job offers a challenging yet rewarding environment with opportunities to consistently learn.

Belvedere Ward provides high quality of care and treatment for people who have complex health needs and a cognitive impairment. We provide a multi disciplinary assessment of patient need to inform their current needs and future care needs.

The team are an enthusiastic and highly motivated team, with a passion for working with older adults. We work closely as a multi-disciplinary team and work well together allowing us to better support our patients and one another. We aim to support the overall health and wellbeing of our staff, keeping them physically and psychologically well which is important in these current times.

This is a great opportunity to join a well-established team, who work together to deliver high quality service to all patients. The team hold shared values and encourage staff to learn and develop their existing skills. Devon Partnership Trust runs excellent development courses that are available to all staff.

Belvedere Ward welcome experienced nurses nurses to apply. We have a highly motivated workforce who are encouraged to develop themselves and that of the service.

Job Purpose

• To assess care needs, develop, implement and evaluate individual care plans.
• To provide named nurse role to people who use our service.
• to work alongside families and carers to provide person centred care and to meet the needs of our patients and others that are important to them
• To participate in the internal rotation system including weekend working

Duties and Responsibilities include

• To be a proactive, skilled member of the ward Multi-Disciplinary team
• To demonstrate effective leadership and assist with providing advice and guidance to nonqualified staff and students.

We provide mental health & learning disability services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

Our values

We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess and demonstrate the behaviours which underpin the core values of our organisation. These values include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile;

making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health & learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Employer.

Communication & Working Relationships

• To have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• To be proficient in the use of electronic systems
• To maintain professional working relationships with other members of the Multi-disciplinary
  
  Team.
• To be able to liaise with carers, families and user groups and representatives.
• To liaise with a range of professionals and agencies allied to the holistic care of the person using this service user e.g. G.P, Social Worker, Housing etc.

Planning & Organisation

• To act as shift co-ordinator
• Act up (take responsibility for the ward) in the absence of Manager as required
• Supervise others in line with Trust policy

Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment & Therapy

• To act as named nurse for a cohort of patients.
• To assess complex health and well…