Job description
As a Forensic Staff Nurse on Beech Ward, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality, recovery-focused care within a specialist low secure forensic service. Working as part of a skilled multidisciplinary team, you will support service users through assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery, promoting positive outcomes and maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Acting as the Named Nurse for an identified group of service users, coordinating and delivering holistic, person-centred care through assessment, care planning, implementation, and review.
• Ensuring the requirements of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, safeguarding legislation, and Trust policies are understood, applied, and adhered to at all times.
• Working collaboratively and flexibly within the multidisciplinary team to deliver high standards of clinical care and support service users throughout their recovery journey.
• Supporting the day-to-day running of the ward, helping to coordinate clinical activities and providing supervision, guidance, and support to junior colleagues, students, and new members of staff as required.
• Building positive therapeutic relationships with service users, carers, and families, ensuring their views are heard and actively encouraging involvement in care planning and decision-making.
• Contributing to the maintenance of a safe, therapeutic environment by promoting relational security, positive risk management, and recovery-focused practice.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will be:
• A Registered Nurse (RNMH, RNLD, RMN or RGN) with current NMC registration.
• Experienced in care planning, clinical assessment, and risk management.
• Passionate about delivering compassionate, person-centred care within a forensic mental health setting.
• An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Organised and resilient, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a dynamic environment.
• Committed to promoting recovery, maintaining professional standards, and modelling the Trust's values at all times.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Forensic Staff Nurse on Beech Ward, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality, recovery-focused care within a specialist low secure forensic service. Working as part of a skilled multidisciplinary team, you will support service users through assessment, treatment, rehabilitation, and recovery, promoting positive outcomes and maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Acting as the Named Nurse for an identified group of service users, coordinating and delivering holistic, person-centred care through assessment, care planning, implementation, and review.
• Ensuring the requirements of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, safeguarding legislation, and Trust policies are understood, applied, and adhered to at all times.
• Working collaboratively and flexibly within the multidisciplinary team to deliver high standards of clinical care and support service users throughout their recovery journey.
• Supporting the day-to-day running of the ward, helping to coordinate clinical activities and providing supervision, guidance, and support to junior colleagues, students, and new members of staff as required.
• Building positive therapeutic relationships with service users, carers, and families, ensuring their views are heard and actively encouraging involvement in care planning and decision-making.
• Contributing to the maintenance of a safe, therapeutic environment by promoting relational security, positive risk management, and recovery-focused practice.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will be:
• A Registered Nurse (RNMH, RNLD, RMN or RGN) with current NMC registration.
• Experienced in care planning, clinical assessment, and risk management.
• Passionate about delivering compassionate, person-centred care within a forensic mental health setting.
• An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• Organised and resilient, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a dynamic environment.
• Committed to promoting recovery, maintaining professional standards, and modelling the Trust's values at all times.