Staff Nurse

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, To function as a named nurse to a defined group of service users, coordinating their assessment and planning, implementing and evaluating their care.
To take charge of the clinical area in the absence of a more senior qualified nurse, covering a 24-hour system of rostering; including internal rotation, as required.
To act up for senior ward staff in their absence, To co-ordinate the assessment of service users and take responsibility for planning, implementing and evaluating of care under the guidelines of the care programme approach. To supervise junior members of staff that are assisting with this.
To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that junior staff are delivering care as laid down in the care plan.
To liaise appropriately with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
To develop a risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all members are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately.
To direct junior staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
To participate or take the lead, as directed, in setting standards for care based on evidence based practice.
To co-ordinate the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you have responsibility for.
To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training and experience to impart sensitive information e.g. diagnosis or symptoms to service users and their families.
To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress, brain injury/psychiatric symptoms or where English is not the first language.
To use skills gained through training and experience to give and receive information to other individuals with regards to a service user's care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the Trust To have an in-depth knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983, responsibilities of the nurse and the rights of service users. Ensure that service user's rights under the Act are effectively communicated to them and outcomes documented.
To provide and co-ordinate the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users and monitor their effectiveness.
To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service user's care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. Supervise and monitor the entries made by junior staff.
To actively participate in ward meetings in order to positively influence team working and the development of evidence based practice.
To provide nursing reports both in written and verbal formats as requested.
To take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Nursing/Midwifery Councils regulations are followed.
To act as a mentor to junior staff and nursing students.
To lead and devise teaching sessions in order to pass on knowledge and skills.
To assist the senior ward staff in the implementation of change or new systems within the area.
To use highly developed skills to assess and monitor the physical/mental health of service users, seeking an opinion from other professionals where appropriate.
To use highly developed skills to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or verbally aggressive.
To direct the team in order to ensure that medical or psychiatric emergencies are acted on promptly and appropriately.
To ensure that junior staff members get appropriate support following untoward incidents.
To ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per trust policy and that any follow-up action is taken.
To lead service user reviews ensuring that service users needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions.
To participate in the induction of new staff.
PROFESSIONAL
To be responsible for maintaining your own Nursing, Midwifery Council registration and revalidation requirements.
To participate as a supervisor and supervisee on the unit using a supervision framework. Work towards and help others work towards goals and objectives as agreed in personal development plans.
Take responsibility for maintaining and developing your knowledge and skills within your area of work.
To attend, as appropriate, courses and conferences which will provide information for new developments within the field of brain injury and to feedback and share knowledge gained from attendance.
To be professionally accountable for your actions as a registered nurse.
To act, at all times, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, ensuring that junior staff adhere to policy and procedure.
To undertake mandatory training as stipulated by the Trust and ensure that all actions are in line with training.
To keep up to date with developments in nursing practice and make recommendations for change to the senior ward staff as appropriate.
To undertake small projects as requested by the senior ward staff to look at specific nursing practices.
To actively participate in ward meetings and handovers to ensure the passage of high quality information that will contribute to good service user care and effective team working. In the absence of senior ward staff to lead ward meetings and handovers.
To take an active role in the reporting of adverse incidents as per trust policy. Ensure that junior staff follow the policy and appropriately report all incidents.
To seek advice and further training, if appropriate, before carrying out any duty you are unsure of.
ORGANISATIONAL
To adhere to the Trusts rights based approach taking into account service user choice.
To take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and any others that may be affected by your acts and omissions at work.
To ensure that you are familiar with the terms and conditions of your post.
To take responsibility for identifying reporting and managing environmental risk as necessary e.g. liaison with Facilities Dept.
To participate in service development activities as required.
OTHER
To maintain the dignity of service users at all times whilst dealing with aspects of personal care.
To maintain service user confidentiality at all times both on and off duty.
To deal sensitively with service users who and ensure that junior staff do the same.
To maintain appropriate professional boundaries with service users at all times both on and off duty.
To ensure that work is conducted in accordance with the Trust's Equality and Diversity Strategy and to contribute to its development.
In exceptional circumstances to co-operate with reasonable requests from more senior staff to vary your area of work to meet unplanned clinical need.
N.B. This job description is an outline and account of the main duties. Any changes will be discussed with the post holder in advance but will also be reviewed regularly to take into account changes and developments in service requirements. The post holder has the right to request a review should they feel there have been significant changes to their role.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre is a Headway Accredited Service and strives to deliver perfect care for the people we serve.
We are looking for a Registered Mental Health Nurse who has completed their preceptorship to join our enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team which consists of neuro-psychiatry, neuro-psychology, nursing, OT, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and social work .
You will be working as a named nurse within the team on a twelve bedded inpatient unit which provides a service to a wide population with a variety of needs including cognitive, emotional and behavioural support.
You will receive regular supervision and have the opportunity to develop your knowledge base around the speciality of brain injury whilst maintaining your professional competencies around the knowledge and skills framework., Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.