Job Title: Staff Nurse
Location: Dartmouth House, 70-72 Handsworth Wood Rd, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham B20 2DT
Salary: £29,688 - £37,981 per annum, plus enhancements (with incremental increases on completion of probation and annually thereafter)
Hours: Rotating Pattern of long day/night/weekend shifts
Job Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full Time/Part-Time
Options for Care are looking to recruit Mental Health Nurses or suitably experienced Learning Disability Nurses, across our existing hospital units at Dartmouth House.
Dartmouth House is a 16-bed male long term complex care mental health inpatient unit based in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham.
We are looking for dynamic and enthusiastic nurses with a genuine passion for working with people who have severe and enduring mental health diagnoses and able to support our mission, vision and values.
In addition to an annual cost of living pay increase, Options for Care benefits from an incremental pay pathway linked to the appraisal process. The first of these pay rises is awarded following successful completion of a six-month probation period.
Options for Care have continually and successfully weathered the storm of COVID-19 alongside our health and social care colleagues. We recognise the value of our CQC-rated Good and Outstanding services lies in our exceptional and committed staff. For this reason, everyone has an individual wellbeing risk assessment followed by a personalised support plan. This ensures their continued wellbeing and attendance at work. Options for Care have ensured a constant supply of PPE throughout the pandemic.
This has enabled staff to continue to safely work with service users supporting them in their progression along their recovery pathway. Despite the continued pandemic and significantly increased challenges, we maintain relationship-centred, best practice interventions, supporting people to improve their quality of life. They continue to work towards their personal goals whilst we maintain least restrictive principles.
Mission
Realising Potential
Vision
“We offer best practice interventions to enable personal recovery and wellbeing.”
Values
- “The individual is at the heart of everything we do.”
- “We inspire, stimulate and empower people to achieve and grow through compassionate, supportive and protective relationships.”
- “We deliver and continuously evaluate high quality service whilst respecting difference, promoting dignity and supporting the privacy of others.”
You will deliver person centred care, supporting individuals towards community integration. We are continually developing and evolving our care pathway and use best practice outcome measures and assessment tools.
Staff development, preceptorship (if required), support and supervision are in place alongside staff health benefits making Options for Care a welcoming and positive place to work.
Benefits:
The Government mandated requirement for all health and social care workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) by 1st April 2022 has been suspended.
Options for Care encourages the uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations to protect individuals, colleagues, patients and communities as the best line of defence against COVID-19.
If you are interested in applying for the role, or if you require further information regarding the role or an informal discussion, please contact:
Options for Care provides mental health recovery services in Birmingham (West Midlands). We have two hospitals, Montague Court and Dartmouth House, with a further, Stanford Court, due to open in April 2023, in addition to our recovery home, Orchard House.
We offer relationship-centred, best practice interventions, supporting individuals to improve their quality of life whilst working towards their personal goals. This supports our organisational objective of enabling individuals to move towards living in the least restrictive setting possible.