Job overview
The post holder will be embedded within a multidisciplinary team consisting of Consultant Psychiatrists, Nurses, Clinical Associate Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Health Coaches, Community Connectors, Support Workers, Peer Support Workers, and IPS Workwise colleagues.
To be a core member of the multi-disciplinary team, participating in the provision high quality mental health care for people who present with severe and enduring mental health problem, with complex needs.
This role would ideally suit a newly qualified Mental Health Nurse or Mental Health Nurse graduates. Successful candidates will be employed at Band 5 and will be supported and mentored through both the trust preceptorship programme and a development learning framework.
Successful candidates will work in multi-disciplinary recovery based community mental health services providing evidence-based care and treatment for all those who use the service. You will provide meaningful interventions and treatment within structured Care Pathways that ensure the best outcomes for our people who use services, with a focus on recovery and promoting independence.
Main duties of the job
This role will include working with an allocated caseload of new and existing service users and using a range of clinical, psychological and social care interventions to enable service users and carers to meet their recovery aims and maintain positive outcomes for both their health and wellbeing. The role includes working closely with our community partners, including GP, staff and voluntary sector. The team’s vision is to move work from clinical settings into the community and focus on Newham's population health needs to dissolve boundaries between health and community.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
·To meet the learning aims of development programme competency framework and Trust preceptorship programmer to deliver the following key responsibilities in practice;
·To discharge professional responsibilities under the Mental Health Act (1983) and revised subsequent act Mental Capacity Act (2005), Care Act (2014), and the NMC Professional Code of Conduct.
·Be accountable and responsible for a defined caseload that reflects the priorities of the local population and carry responsibility for the assessment of care and support needs; under the direct supervision of the Operational/ Clinical Lead and assigned mentor.
·To develop, implement and evaluate evidence based treatment; set standards of care and liaise with other agencies for service user and carers under the care of the service.
·Take on the role of Allocated Worker to service users subject to the Care Programme Approach/ Recovery Model / Dialog+, as in line with Local and National Policy, under the guidance and support of your mentor, lone manager and wider MDT.
·Participate in the multi-disciplinary assessment of individuals with mental health problems living in the community, by providing a community mental health nursing perspective and expertise
·Ensure that a risk assessment is completed for service users, especially if there is a history of, or a potential for risk.
·To adhere to professional confidentiality standards.
·To be aware of the potential for vulnerability to abuse amongst the service users/families, and use of the local policy to inform appropriate personnel in line with safeguarding vulnerable adults and children and SABP Policies
·Ensure that a carer’s assessment is offered to carers of service users, as in line with Standard 6 of the National Service Framework.
·Help develop and maintain effective joint working arrangements with colleagues in the community mental health services, residential services, primary health care, social services and voluntary services, thus facilitating the co-ordination and comprehensiveness of provision under the guidance and support of your mentor, lone manager and wider MDT
·Utilise the full range of mental health nursing skills to participate in the assessment, care and support of service users.
·Use knowledge, experience and skills in direct clinical work and. This may include work in rehabilitation, social interventions, development of social networks and accessing other services/resources, mental health promotion, counselling and intercultural therapy, encouraging service user participation at all times.
·Participate in the provision of community mental health nursing advice and consultation to colleagues, community groups and organisations.
·Promote the recovery model to the people who use the service and their carers
·To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these.
·Ensure detailed and appropriate records are maintained to demonstrate that contact with people who use services, and their carers’, is meaningful and effective.
·Ensure compliance with the requirements Safeguarding Adults and Children’s policies. Through the support of your line manager you will be enable to continue to build on your rknowledge and skills to work within these procedures to support the safety of vulnerable adults and children..
·To reflect on work and seek opportunities to improve practice
Person specification
Eduction/Qualification/Training
Essential criteria
1. Pre-graduate mental health nurse in the final six months of their training or a graduate mental health nurse who is pending their PIN or a Registered Mental Health Nurse .
2. Willingness to undertake further training relevant to position
Experience
Essential criteria
3. Experience of mental health nursing either in inpatient or community setting
Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. Knowledge of the Mental Health Act (1983), Mental Capacity Act (2005) & the Care Act (2014
5. Understanding of the principles of the recovery model, DIALOG+and Care Programme Approach
6. Up to date knowledge of the current approaches to mental health nursing
7. Up to date knowledge of the issues that impact individuals and carers affected by mental health and / or cognitive impairment (where applicable)
8. Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding adults and children.
9. Understanding of the key themes of clinical governance and evidence based practice
10. •Knowledge and understanding of equal opportunities policies and practice and how they affect staff, service users and carers
Desirable criteria
11. Human Rights Act 1998
Skills
Essential criteria
12. Good verbal and written communication skills
13. Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care using evidence based approaches
14. Ability to prioritise workload
15. Excellent time management skills
16. Ability to work autonomously and independently
17. Ability to be innovative in practice. Ability to work effectively as part of a team
18. Good IT skills
19. Ability to engage with people with serious mental health problems in a holistically