Bank Staff Nurse - COVID-19 in York

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Bank Band 5 Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurses

Owing to unprecedented events regarding COVID-19 we are working tirelessly to recruit quickly for Band 5 Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurses to join the BANK at Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

The Bank covers a large geographical area across Hull and East Yorkshire.

Are you a registered Mental Health Nurse or Learning Disabilities Nurse looking for a new challenge? Do you want to work in a rewarding environment with flexibility and the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives?

Applicants are invited to apply to join the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust as Bank Staff Nurses which entails working on an ‘as and when required’ basis, on one of our in-patient units. We require nurses with a variety of registrations including: Adult Mental Health and Learning Disabilities.

Posts are Trust wide, which includes Hull, Willerby, Beverley, Hornsea, Goole, Bridlington, and Driffield areas therefore access to an appropriate means of transport is advantageous. Service areas requiring cover will include Community Mental Health Services, Adult Mental Health, Older Adult Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Learning Disability Services and Forensic Services.

Applicants will have a relevant up to date Nursing registration and preceptorship and be expected to display a high standard of communication, and the ability to develop relationships with patients.

The successful candidates will be professionals who want to work flexibly, on an as and when required basis; able to work innovatively and confidently and be committed to the planning and delivery of quality mental health care.

The Trust is a training environment and the successful candidates will benefit from up-to-date training and supervision.

We will rely on your co-operation as a candidate to enable us to process Pre employment checks quickly if you are successful. We intend to carry out telephone interviews and you can expect this to take place within 2 days of your application.

Why work for us?

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust provides a broad range of community and inpatient mental health services, community services (including therapies), learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addiction services to approximately 600,000 people. The Trust has been rated Good by the Care Quality Commission. The Trust is also proud to be HSJ Provider of the Year 2019 award winners.

We employ approximately 2,800 staff across more than 79 sites at locations throughout Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Whitby and Scarborough. We deliver Mental Health Services, Specialist Services for Children, Forensic Services, Community and Learning Disability Services, as well as having eight GP Practices across the locality.

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - a multi-specialty health and social care teaching provider. We aim to be a leading provider of integrated health services, recognised for the care compassion and commitment of our staff and known as a great employer and a valued partner.

The Trust works closely with our academic partners, including Hull York Medical School (HYMS) and Hull University, nurturing and developing a workforce of doctors, nurses and other health and social care professionals of the future.

At Humber we believe our people are our greatest asset and therefore we are committed to developing, growing and rewarding our workforce. As an employee at Humber you will benefit from pay in line with Agenda for Change, NHS pension, training and development, annual appraisal, generous annual leave entitlement and flexible working options to enable you to achieve a healthy work/life balance.

Location

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust serves the rural populations of Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. Hull has benefitted from being included The Guardian’s ‘Hot List’ of places to visit and rated by Rough Guides as one of the top ten cities in the world to see. The nearby town of Beverley was named by The Sunday Times as one of the ten best places to live in the north. The area boasts a wide array of diverse property from coastal cottages to riverside apartments. Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire offer some of the most competitive house prices in the country, with access to excellent schools and further and higher education providers.

The region has great transport connections with an hour commute York or Leeds. Want to go further afield? There are daily ferry crossings from Hull to Belgium and the Netherlands and from Humberside Airport you can reach destinations across Europe and – via Schiphol – worldwide.