Staff Nurse Older Adult Inpatient
The closing date is 05 December 2025
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust (NHFT) has a purpose built inpatient mental health unit for older adults in Northampton at Berrywood Hospital. We are currently recruiting for Band 5 RMN's on Brookview Ward which is a 8 bedded Organic Ward for the over 65 years old.
* Overtime incentive
* Bespoke training and development opportunities
* Preceptorship package with follow on mentorship training
* Recovery principles are embedded in all our activities
* The older adult ward is AIMS accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatry
* We have fantastic opportunities for both newly qualified and experienced nurses
Main duties of the job
Our Ward is committed to delivering high quality care to our Service Users with a focus on Service User and Carers involvement at every level.
* 12 bedded Organic Assessment & Treatment Ward at Berrywood
We offer a Preceptorship Programme, mandatory and area specific training programme including Personal Safety Course and opportunities for ongoing learning within NHFT through links with Northampton University and The Open University.
About us
NHFT welcomes applications from people, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status or pregnancy or maternity status.
We would encourage applications from groups who are currently underrepresented in the organisation. In particular, applications from disabled people (with both visible and non-visible disabilities), people from black and minority ethnic communities and lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered (LGBT) people.
NHFT is committed to building a diverse workforce, ensuring staff are treated fairly at work and ensuring all staff have the learning and development they need on equality in order to undertake their job role.
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING
* oRMN or RN Dip/HE (Mental Health), RGN or RNLD
* Pin pending if not already qualified
attributes
* good communication skills evidenced in the application
* able to work collaboratively within a team structure
* must be able to undertake breakaway and low level interventions
* knowledge of System1
* evidence in application of positive attitude to mental health
* evidenced in application that they are self motivated and can work under pressure
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
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