Inpatient Staff Nurse (Greyfriars)

Greyfriars is a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit situated within the grounds of Wotton Lawn Hospital. We provide care to patients who have a significant and enduring mental health disorder and have additional safety concerns. We are a specialist, nurse led service, where we operate a referrals based system of eligible criteria in line with the PICU National Minimum Standards.

Service users are supported by a variety of healthcare workers including nurses, doctors, healthcare assistants and allied health professionals such as psychologists, art therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and sports exercise therapists.

The hospital estate has four wards in the main Wotton Lawn building as well as a nurse-led Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Low Secure Unit (LSU) in the grounds.

Everyone in the hospital is committed to making the admission and stay with us as pleasant as possible, and all staff work closely with both the regionalCrisis and Home Treatment Teams (CHTT)andCommunity Mental Health Teams (CMHT) to ensure seamless services are provided., Work according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct and relevant professional guidelines as a named nurse taking responsibility for the assessment of care and health education needs

Develop, implement and evaluate care plans in conjunction with service users, carers and other professionals ensuring individual needs are met

As named nurse to have responsibility for undertaking mental and behavioural state examinations for own service users and service users being admitted, repeated on at least a weekly basis and clinical risk assessment and management plans.

Assist service users to meet their personal care needs e.g. assisting with bathing and washing, as outlined in the Care Plan. This intervention may be delegated where appropriate

Liaise with and offer specialist assessment and advice to other agencies and professions, including participating in Multi-Agency meetings to offer advice and opinions to facilitate the ongoing treatment and care of service users and to ensure adherence to National Service Framework (NSF) guidelines

Actively support service users in the management of their medication within a 'concordance framework' and relevant policies. Administer medication, including Intra-muscular injections depot medication as appropriate and monitor side effects. Delegate the checking and delivery of medication when appropriate.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an