Lead Nursing Assistant & Activity Coordinator
This is an exciting opportunity to join the expanding Navigo family, working as a Lead Nursing Assistant and Activity Coordinator at the inpatient lodges. Whether you're looking to start a new career or you already have experience supporting people with health & social needs, we want to hear from hardworking, kind, caring, and compassionate people who want to make a difference to the lives of others.
Our teams work across the locality in a holistic, person-centred and trauma-informed approach to deliver services that we'd be happy for our own families to use.
Main Duties of the Job
The Lead Nursing Assistant will work with the Clinical Lead and Occupational Therapist in supervising the day-to-day delivery of the programme of care for the inpatients on the unit. The expectation is that they will be proficient, competent, and require minimum supervision in delivering high-quality care that is evidence-based. They will ensure that planned care is delivered safely and effectively by the team and focused on achieving the outcomes detailed in patients' care plans. They will complement the work of the multi-disciplinary team in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of inpatients.
Job Responsibilities
1. Assist in the coordination of patients' packages of care and liaison with other agencies (with support from senior colleagues).
2. Assess and monitor the health and wellbeing needs of inpatients as directed by the multidisciplinary team.
3. Ensure a comprehensive and diverse activity planner that is delivered consistently and meaningfully, including psychoeducation, meaningful use of time, skills building, and activities of daily living.
4. Provide assurance of Nursing Assistant engagement with care plans and risk management plans, and provide coaching, training, and support in order to achieve this.
5. Ensure Nursing Assistants are appropriately skilled in respect of working in an appropriate manner, accessing and understanding patient notes, risk management, writing patient notes, using systems, engaging service users, working safely with service users, delivering on care planned activity.
6. Undertake daily review of service users' health and social care needs as required against the care plan and take appropriate action to achieve the planned aims.
7. Support the documentation, monitoring, and review of a range of specialist therapeutic interventions for service users.
8. Deliver holistic care to service users and their families using evidence-based interventions and assessment tools, seeking advice/assistance from senior colleagues as required.
9. Monitor, evaluate, and modify individual and/or group interventions and activities in order to ensure effectiveness and to improve service user therapeutic outcomes.
10. Liaise with the multidisciplinary team, care coordinators, General Practitioners, and any other relevant parties involved, as per NICE guidelines and local policy.
11. Advise service users, their family members, and professional colleagues on appropriate lifestyle changes to an individual's physical and social environments which will promote enablement and independence.
12. Participate in inpatient reviews involving service users, their families, and other professionals and agencies.
13. Identify when a carers assessment is required and ensure referral on to appropriate agencies and support networks (with support from senior colleagues).
14. Act as an advocate for our service users and ensure that their voice is heard throughout their care.
15. Assist in maintaining the safe administration and storage of medication in accordance with Navigo policies and procedures.
16. Prompt, enable, and encourage service users to be compliant with their medication regime and support junior staff to do this under the supervision and direction of nursing staff.
17. Complete audits of medication & medication care plans and support in the assessment of individuals.
18. Deliver and/or ensure that evidence-based therapeutic groups occur at each allocated time throughout the day and that daily one-to-one sessions with patients are conducted.
19. Ensure that Nursing Assistants are adhering to policy, process, and reasonable instruction, including in regard to protected time, documentation, observations, and the delivery of care.
20. Provide clinical and line management supervision to the nursing assistant workforce, ensuring this is provided in line with policy.
21. Be the lead in physical health interventions including NEWS2, phlebotomy, and ECGs.
22. Be the lead nursing assistant on shift each day, in charge of the nursing assistant workforce, directing and supporting nursing assistants on shift.
23. Ensure audit and ordering of medication, equipment, tools, and resources as appropriate.
Person Specification
Knowledge
* Evidenced interest in working in mental health.
* Mental health First Aid training.
* Evidence of an awareness of Health and Safety in the workplace.
* Evidence of experience with the benefits and housing systems.
Experience
* At least 4 years relevant mental health/health work experience.
* Work experience within a Mental Health or Social Care environment within the last 12 months.
* Supervisory experience.
Additional Requirements
* Evidence of ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
* Examples of positive attitude and person-centred, trauma-informed care.
* Currently eligible to work in the UK.
* Evidence of a commitment to user/carer involvement.
* Access to own transport.
Qualifications
* Relevant NVQ level 3 or equivalent or a willingness to undertake this.
* Care Certificate.
* Literacy and numeracy skills to level 3 or above.
* Evidence of good understanding of the MHA and MCA.
* NVQ assessor or willingness to complete this in the first 24 months of appointment.
* Coaching qualification.
* Leadership training.
* IT or equivalent qualification to level 2.
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.
Employer Name
Navigo Health and Social Care CIC
Address
The community and other service bases within Navigo
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