Staff Nurse

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust ,
Durham, Durham
Salary: From £24,907 to £30,615 per annum

Overview

We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with an annual income of £320m and a workforce of some 6,700 staff operating from around 100 sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range inpatient and community services to 2m people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire. We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England. We deliver our services by working in partnership with eight local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of voluntary organisations, as well as service users, their carers and the public. The services are spread over a wide geographical area of around 3,600 square miles, which includes coastal, rural and industrial areas. We are a multi-award winning trust and are included within the Health Service Journal’s Best 100 Places to Work. The trust take a positive and proactive approach to support staff in their personal development and has embedded the Talent Management approach within the Trust, with the vision of helping people to be as good as they can be, helping TEWV to do things better. Exciting opportunities have arisen for motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join our Adult Mental Health inpatient team on Tunstall Ward at Lanchester Road Hospital Durham. These are challenging roles which will afford the successful candidates to work as part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team that is focused on delivering high standards of care through evidence based practice. A supportive package will also be in place with team and managerial supervision as well as training days specific to qualified nurses. Applicants should hold a professional nursing qualification registered on Part 3 or Part 13 of NMC register. A flexible approach is required as these posts involve working shifts, including night rotation. For further details / informal visits contact: Daniel Scott, Ward Manager, Tunstall Ward - 0191 4415838 Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the protection of staff, service users and visitors to the Trust from second hand smoke and currently operates a no smoking policy which ensures all buildings and grounds are smoke free. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from individuals who have experience of mental ill health or learning disabilities. Our service users and carers tell us our staff should be consistently concerned with maintaining and improving care with pride, empathy and compassion. This job advert may close as soon as sufficient suitable applications have been received. If interested please apply for this post as soon as possible Your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages via the NHS Jobs website and therefore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post you are agreeing to Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information within this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system Please note that if the post you are applying for requires a DBS check, you will be required to also subscribe to the DBS Update Service, if successful, and thereafter renew your subscription each year. The Trust will reimburse the subscription fee. Tier 2 Visa Applicants - From April 2017, Tier 2 visa applicants and their adult dependants will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. The requirement has been designed to strengthen the safeguards against individuals with a criminal history who are seeking to come into the UK. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89954550