Mental Health Nurse
OPTIONS FOR CARE LIMITED, Digbeth, Birmingham
Mental Health Nurse
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OPTIONS FOR CARE LIMITED, Digbeth, Birmingham
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted today, 20 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 8d530be966f04dff9655f9835290199b
Full Job Description
To provide quality evidence-based nursing advice, support and care for service users with mental health needs and their carers within a multidisciplinary setting. Principle Responsibilities The post holder will be responsible for the following:
- The facilitation, promotion and supervision of education, clinical practices and audit.
- Take the lead for clinical workstreams such as infection prevention and control.
- Oversee the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care within agreed parameters, and have a working knowledge of local and national policies and legislation which govern service provision.
- Identifying and contributing to others' training needs.
- Ensuring the promotion of equality, diversity, and rights in accordance with good practice and legislation.
- Ensuring effective communication pathways exist. Clinical The post holder will be responsible for the following:
- The assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the evidence-based care required, including health promotion for a named service user/group.
- Setting quality standards, including monitoring and reviewing in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
- Understanding and meeting their professional role and responsibilities under the Care Programme Approach and all other relevant legislation.
- Ensuring the Mental Health Act 1983 requirements are observed, adhered to and implemented.
- Promoting carer and service user involvement within the service and its provision.
- Establishing therapeutic relationships with service users and implementing evidence-based therapeutic interventions with appropriate boundaries per the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code. Professional The post holder will be responsible for the following:
- Participation in the Options for Care appraisal process, identifying own/others' mandatory professional, personal development and training needs.
- The safe custody and administration of medicines.
- To participate and contribute appropriately to research, service modernisation and clinical governance.
- To respect and value the different therapeutic approaches within the multi-disciplinary team but ensure that the agreed philosophy approach is adopted and followed.
- Ensuring confidentiality is maintained at all times in accordance with the data protection act, trust policy and good practice.
- Maintaining and conducting oneself professionally towards service users, carers, colleagues and other agencies.
- Participate in joint working with appropriate experts/agencies. Educational The post holder will be responsible for the following:
- Providing formal and informal training for pre-post-registration students, staff members, carers and service users.
- The provision of staff induction, mentorship, appraisal and clinical supervision to professional colleagues as appropriate. Organisational The post holder will be responsible for the following:
- Ensuring they contribute and work towards the service/organisational aims and objectives.
- To understand their responsibility for respecting and promoting issues of equality, diversity and rights in accordance with good practice and legislation.
- Reading, understanding and complying with all relevant policies and procedures. Communication The post holder will be responsible for the following:
- Ensuring accurate and timely written records that comply with organisational policy and NMC guidance, reporting on any issues as appropriate.
- Ensuring they comply with current good practice in informing/updating all multi-disciplinary team members, their colleagues, service users and appropriate others of changes involving current nursing care plans, progress, mental state and psychosocial factors in line with best practice.
- Ensuring that they communicate with clients and carers and actively listen to establish an understanding of the needs of the service user and their carers.
- The effective utilisation of nursing/financial resources to ensure adequate clinical care is provided with a requirement that all incidents, which may compromise care, are reported immediately to the registered manager. Additional Responsibilities The post holder will be responsible for the following:
- Attend statutory and mandatory training as necessary as specified by Options for Care Ltd.
- Carry out other duties the senior team identifies commensurate with their role as and when required.
- Attend meetings as necessary.