Nursing at Priory

Our nurses play a vital leadership role on the ward and in our care homes – coordinating our efforts, maintaining quality standards, responding creatively to new challenges and ensuring that our patients, residents and service users received the best possible care at all times.

Along with plenty of peer support and an open and accessible management team, you will have access to excellent career development resources including bespoke training to keep you at the forefront of developments in the field.

Preceptorships

As a Preceptor nurse, we will support you with a structured post qualification framework to complete within 12 months. This can be within a variety of clinical specialisms, giving you an opportunity to find which area of nursing you are passionate about.

Preceptors within Priory Group will be able to put into practice their professional skills, knowledge and experience within a changing environment.

Job Profile

• Deliver prescribed care to a defined group of patients/Service users that reflect their individual needs
• Assess, plan and deliver, with the patient and their carer/family, nursing care which takes account of patient choice and wishes and acting as the patients named nurse. This includes the evaluation and review of these plans, with the patient/Service User, on a frequent basis, that is reflective of their needs
• Contribute to a team approach to patient care in conjunction with all members of the Multi-Disciplinary team and liaises effectively with external professionals
• Maintains accurate and contemporaneous records of patient/service user care delivered
• Accurately communicate with, observe and engage with patients/residents/service users in order to assess need and evaluate progress.
• Providing accurate information about care in an accessible format to patients/service Users and their families
• Maintains a continued level of personal professional development including full attendance and participation at The Priory New Registrant Programme to demonstrate contemporary practice and meet the requirements of revalidation, as a minimum.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Abilities

• Qualified Registered Nurse with active NMC
• Knowledge of NMC Standards, guidelines, requests and professional
• Demonstrates a positive attitude and commitment to change, improvement and
• Ability to develop and use flexible and innovative approaches to
• Excellent verbal , interpersonal and written communication skills
• IT literate

Priory Healthcare Benefits

• Excellent salary
• Free on-site parking
• Free meals on duty
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Birthday Holiday - Your Birthday as an extra days annual leave
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Contributory pension scheme
• Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets / smartphones) and private healthcare
• Access to development opportunities
• Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel
• Leadership & management development
• Long service award
• Refer a friend bonuses
• Relocation support (including payment for accommodation or moving costs) up to £3000 (Terms apply)

Additional benefits for nurses joining Priory:

• Welcome bonus (Dependant on service)
• Fully funded DBS
• Fully funded NMC registration
• Return to Practice support
• Mentorship experience
• CPD top up
• Management and Leadership development opportunities

Are Registered Mental Health Nurses Superheroes?

At Priory Group, you don’t have to have superhuman powers to be a hero in our eyes. We want the care our nurses provide to our service users to be super. As a mental health nurse at Priory you’ll be part of a company that is supportive and has your welfare and interests at heart. Mental health nursing is a tough but rewarding career and we want to make sure that our relationship with you is a long-term thing, not a flash in the pan.

It takes a genuine desire to help other people, along with a lot of dedication and compassion to be a Mental Health Nurse. In return, we want to make sure you get the reward you deserve which is why we offer market leading salaries as well as bonuses and benefits, you’ll get job satisfaction and we’ll support you to develop your skills and grow with the company via our Career Pathways programme. You’ll get to build therapeutic relationships with the people you care for so you can help them through their difficult time and find ways to take control over their own health. It’s a chance to make a real and lasting difference to someone.

At Priory, you’ll be joining the UK’s largest provider of high quality mental health care with around 350 services across the country. Since joining forces with rehabilitation specialists, MEDIAN, we aim to be the leading European provider of mental health and rehabilitative services. By joining us, you’d be key to helping us bring the best of MEDIAN and Priory to our patients and residents.