About this role
Job summary
Come and join us for a unique job opportunity at South Sefton Neighbourhood Centre! We are working towards delivering a thoroughly modern mental health service that offers excellent standards of care and meaningful interventions.
This is a wonderful opportunity for someone who is interested in developing as a practitioner and person. Development opportunities will be available and regular clinical supervision and support will be provided.
Main duties of the job
To provide high quality, evidence-based care within Division for service users and their carers within inpatient and community services.
To work in a socially inclusive way and in line with the recovery model.
To function as named nurse/keyworker to service users undertakingassessment, planning and evaluation and review of care, within a recovery focused model of care.
To participate as an active member of the multi-disciplinary team.
To provide advice, expertise and leadership within the team.
To supervise care for service users presenting with complex and high-risk needs.
To work autonomously, reaching clinically appropriate decisions based oninformation received and using the knowledge and experience of the multi-disciplinary team.
To be qualified to act as a mentor for students.
To support and improve the physical health of outcomes of service users within the Community Mental Health Team through assessment, monitoring, health promotion And liaison with primary and secondary care services.
To contribute to the assessment and management of service users with co-existingMental health and substance misuse needs (dual diagnosis), working Collaboratively with partner agencies.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To coordinate the physical care of service users carrying out assessment planning, implementation and evaluation of their care under the guidelines of the care programme approach and under the supervision of the line manager.
To ensure that the service users physical health care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that other staff are delivering care as laid down in the care plan.
To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. Supervise and monitor the entries made by junior team members, through performance management and audit.
To liaise significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
To direct other staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of physical care to serviceusers.
To participate in setting physical health standards for care based on sound evidence based andresearch findings.
To participate in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you have responsibility for with guidance from a supervisor. To communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the communication of any relevant information that has an impact on the service users physical care.
To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress, psychiatric symptoms or where English is not the first language.
To use skills gained through training and experience to give and receive information to other individuals with regards to a service users care in the reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the Trust.
To provide and co-ordinate the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users and monitor their effectiveness.
To take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing & Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered to.
To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. To supervise and monitor the entries made by unqualified staff.
To under the guidance of a supervisor provide reports both in written and verbal formats as requested e.g. for a service user multi disciplinary team meeting or CPA review.
To contribute to teaching sessions in order to pass on knowledge and skills.
To ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per Trust policy and that any follow up action is taken.
To actively participate in service user reviews ensuring that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions.
To develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and wellbeing to help them to obtain their optimum health.
To react pro-actively in cases of service user physical health crisis and put in place immediate plans to resolve the situation with supervision and guidance as appropriate.
To assist in the assessment and supervision of nursing and other students.
To assess and monitor the physical health of service users, seeking advice and support from medical staff as appropriate.
To actively participate in team meetings in order to positively influence team working and the development of research based practice.
To participate in the induction of new staff.
To maintain safe custody of medicines, sharps and other clinical equipment.
To manage own time and workload, prioritising work appropriately.
Person Specification
Expeirence
Essential
- Minimum 2 years post-registration mental health experience
- Evidence of leadership and management skills
- Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads
- Evidence of supervising staff
- Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies
- Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers
- Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance
- Experience in change management and policy formulation
- Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. RADAR
- Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews
- Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings
Qualifications
Essential
- Appropriate professional qualification (e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker)
- Evidence of post-registration CPD
Desirable
- Working towards Masters level education
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of mental health legislation, CPA, safeguarding, equality and human rights, clinical governance and professional codes of conduct
- Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation
- Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff
- Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staffs' responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge bas e
Skills
Essential
- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non -verbally
- Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services
- Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
- Professional attitude
- Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills and leadership skills
- Excellent oral and written skills
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
- The ability to lead change management
- Ability to contribute to developing care excellence within the ward / team area
- Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines
- Risk assessment and management
- Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation
- Autonomous practice
- Leadership and supervision
- Multidisciplinary working
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
South Sefton Neighbourhood Centre
Park Road
Waterloo
L22 3XR
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.merseycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)