Staff Nurse - Longreach Redruth

Successful applicants will be invited to attend an Assessment Centre at Carew House, Bodmin on Friday 23rd June 2023. This will be a morning or afternoon to be confirmed.

Perran is an established 15 bed acute admission ward caring for anyone requiring inpatient care, providing wonderful opportunities and facilities for patients. We are striving for our unit to be innovative, creative and recovery focused. We are inspired by some of the best practice and emerging evidence base from around the country and are not afraid to trial new and original thinking for the benefit of our service users. We are looking for caring and creative individuals that are motivated by the opportunities and challenges of developing what we hope will be a gold standard unit.

If you are looking to work somewhere that is unconditionally respectful to service users and their families, that value their staff as individuals and continuously strives to be the best unit it can be then we could be the team for you.

Full and Part time available, both day and night shift working is required to fulfil this post.

An attractive relocation package may be available.

To be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and may be required to teach other nursing and non-nursing staff.

• To provide designated named nurse responsibility for a number of patients.
• To provide leadership, supervision and support to junior staff both qualified and unqualified in the absence of the Clinical Team Leader and Unit Manager during the course of the normal shift pattern, and to ensure the efficient and effective use of resources available to deliver a high standard of quality care to service users.

We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.

To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.