Up to 37.5 hours per week.
Cotehele is a Functional Mental Health Unit for predominantly over 65s, located in a purpose-built 10-bedded Unit at the Glenbourne Unit, Derriford. Cotehele, a mixed ward, was specifically designed with separate male and female corridors and individual en-suite rooms. A knowledge of physical and mental health challenges is required for the role. We are working with the Home Treatment Team to help prevent admissions and to support leave and facilitate a more streamlined discharge. If you would like to be considered as part of the team at this exciting time, then this job might well be for you.
All candidates must be computer literate and have a firm understanding of information governance. You will need to be able to work a rotating shift pattern to cover our 24-hour, 7-day a week service.
This post requires the post holder to undertake all statutory and mandatory training, including physical intervention training.
In return, you will receive enhanced payments for night and weekend work, access to a pension scheme, and CPD days each year. We will also support and facilitate your development in this role through supervision and a personal development plan tailored to your needs and experience.
Main duties of the job
The postholder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care.
He/she will be designated to take charge.
The postholder is required to supervise staff and be able to teach qualified and unqualified staff, including basic and/or post-basic students.
The staff nurse will at all times work within the spirit of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct for trained nurses and local policies.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route; please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information regarding eligibility.
Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7-day service.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible, and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees and making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
* Protected CPD time for registered staff
* Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
* Leadership & mentoring programmes
* Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
* A Robust Preceptorship
* A bespoke induction programme
* Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Tasks and Responsibilities of the Post:
* Utilise nursing skills to assess, plan and implement and deliver care to patients who are in an acute phase of their illness.
* Organise the provision of care and act as Named Nurse/Associate Nurse for a specified group of patients.
* Function as a member of a multidisciplinary team taking appropriate responsibility for the implementation of decisions made by the team.
* Ensure planned nursing care is implemented and evaluated, taking appropriate action in light of evaluation.
* Participate in training programmes for both trained and untrained staff.
* In conjunction with the university and Senior Staff Nurses, ensure training programmes/objectives for learner nurses are implemented.
* Responsible for implementing drug administration procedures according to laid down policy.
* Maintain standards of care to the highest level within available resources.
* Maintain confidentiality in respect to the patient at all times.
* Actively participate in line management with senior and junior members of staff.
* Liaise effectively with other wards and services and develop and maintain relationships with statutory and non-statutory providers.
* Communicate clearly with patients, their families, and all other mental health professional groups about their health problems and care plan.
* Actively participate in clinical governance and quality improvement initiatives, e.g. clinical audit or clinical policy development.
* Play an active role in CPA multidisciplinary reviews and ward rounds, reporting on the nursing assessment of the patients' progress and participating further in M/D Care Planning.
* Encourage patients to play a part in the Care Plan and to sign it, ensuring they receive a copy to promote person-centred planning.
* Provide mentorship for students.
* Attend and participate in meetings, e.g., Case Conference, Mental Health review tribunals.
* Actively participate and provide clinical supervision.
* Have a working knowledge of Plymouth Community HealthCare Policies and Guidance.
* Participate in the rotation programme across the Locality.
* Have a working knowledge of specific policies relating to your work area, i.e. seclusion policy, ECT policy, Safeguarding, and be able to apply this in practice.
* Work within NMC Code of Conduct regarding documentation and ensure compliance with the Trust clinical record-keeping policy.
* Participate and undertake in the appraisal process.
* Have a competent and robust knowledge of legislation including Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, and Deprivation of Liberty.
* Support the induction and Preceptorship programme.
* Ensure mandatory training is up to date and be able to undertake it in their own workplace.
* Assess and manage risk for personal safety and the safety of colleagues within the relevant policies.
* Work in accordance with NMC guidelines around CPD and be able to evidence this via a portfolio.
* At all times, work within the NMC Code of Conduct.
* Assume responsibility as delegated by a senior member of staff.
* Participate in coordinator/duty rota as required.
* Participate in new service developments such as Place of Safety and Nurse Lead discharge.
* Comply with all infection control policies and guidance, attend relevant updates, and report issues of concern to their immediate line manager (if no action or explanation received, then it is the individual's responsibility to escalate to the Director of Operations/Chief Executive office).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Degree or Diploma Registered Mental Nurse
Desirable
* Sign off mentor
Knowledge
Essential
* Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty
* Sound working knowledge base of functional mental health illness
* Policies and procedures
* Mental Health and physical health care
* Record keeping
Desirable
* Networking with other agencies
* Ethical issues in relation to Mental Health
Experience
Essential
* Experience in a variety of settings
Desirable
* Life experience in a wide range of settings
Skills
Essential
* Assessment Skills
* Communication Skills
* Leadership Skills
* Team Work Skills
* Medication Administration Skills
* Supervision of Junior Staff
* Responsible and self-motivated
* Flexible to the needs of the service, including shift working
* Participate in rotation and recovery principles
Employer details
Employer name
Livewell Southwest
Address
Plymouth Primary Care Trust
Morlaix Road
Derriford
Plymouth
PL6 5AF
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