Senior Nursing Assistant-Enhanced Care Team

Would you like to be part of a team that supports mental health patients or those experiencing psychological distress at St Thomas' hospital?, The Mental Health Enhanced Care Team provide therapeutic interventions towards maintaining safety, reducing agitation, distress, promoting mental health wellbeing and recovery for patients identified as having a mental health support need while awaiting treatment/assessment or transfer to mental health services.

Our criteria for enhanced care involvement includes persons with acute mental illness, experiencing psychological distress, drug/alcohol intoxication, acute confusion likely to wander/abscond and deemed at risk of harm to themselves or others.

The role of the enhanced care nursing assistants involves working under the direction of a registered professional to participate in the development and maintenance of high quality patient care ;

Providing 1:1 engagement and observation to therapeutic engagement with patients

Providing activities where appropriate

Supporting with personal care needs,

Clinical observations

Continually assessing needs/risks and communicating these to relevant other members of the multidisciplinary team in accordance with the mental health care plan and least restrictive principles.

We are seeking confident, caring , compassionate, responsive and recovery focused individuals with excellent communication skills to provide care and support to patients identified as needing therapeutic engagement and observation in our emergency department and across the hospital wards.

You be required to demonstrate the ability to act calmly in challenging situations and form positive therapeutic relationships with patients. In return you will be supported daily by experienced senior mental health nurses and you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge through in-house training, regular supervision and reflective sessions.

You will also have the opportunity to further develop nursing skills in managing both the physical and mental health care of patients with an understanding of the interface between the two.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.