Job overview
Promote the health and well-being of patients and maintain a safe, caring and therapeutic environment based on an individualised approach. Working with the Team Leader to provide an environment that promotes training and development among the workforce.
Main duties of the job
·To ensure a high standard of individualised care for each client by facilitating a needs-led service and the decisions made by the multi-disciplinary team.
·To act as clinical and managerial role model, demonstrating high standards of clinical practice.
·To demonstrate a working knowledge of the key elements of relevant Mental Health legislation.
·To ensure that the team is meeting requirements in relation to any particular mental health legislation, e.g. CPA, and that adequate monitoring systems are in place.
·To take responsibility for a small caseload of clients, maintaining clinical skills.
·To demonstrate a positive attitude to mental health, attending to patients with respect and dignity and have the ability to challenge staff where the standard falls below expectations.
·To ensure that professional boundaries are always adhered to.
·To keep up to date with issues and developments in nursing, the prison service and the wider NHS.
·To keep abreast of new Policies, Guidance and Best Practice guidelines.
·To actively participate in the Healthcare Care Quality Meetings and other appropriate meetings as agreed.
·To maintain up to date accurate clinical records both written and electronic.
Working for our organisation
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic, a prison or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
·To maintain appropriate service statistics.
·Maintain accurate, timely paper and electronic records. Ensure they are kept safely in accordance with CNWL policies, including the Data Protection Act (1998) and the CNWL Confidentiality Policy.
·To ensure effective use of SystmOne and cNOMIS in record keeping and monitor the quality of data provided by junior staff.
·To ensure that key local and national policies are implemented at a local level giving support to team members where necessary.
·To lead and support the implementation of any new software application within the team. To ensure staff are adequately prepared and supported throughout the process and that good links are established throughout the process.
·To support staff throughout any change process and to allow minimal disruption to patient care delivery. To ensure all staff receive information related to change.
·To lead on specific care quality initiatives, within the team and service wide.
·To become involved in forums other than health to promote closer working practices in order to meet patient and carer needs.
·To participate in the planning and implementation of clinical audits in the area and ensure that standards of good practice are met by all staff.
·To provide a forum to allow effective communication to take place - both for clinical and non-clinical issues.
·To take initiative in developing the service, working alongside the Mental Health Service Lead and partner organisations to improve services.
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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