Job Overview
An exciting position has arisen for an experienced Nurse with interest in medication management and physical health, is passionate about improving outcomes for service users with long term mental illness within our Community Mental health Hub.
If you are, then you will already know that people with serious mental illness have significantly shorter than average life expectancy and much higher than average incidence of physical health conditions.
We are continually striving to redress this health equality in our service by appointing a Wellbeing Nurse to oversee the running of the community depot clinics and to be responsible alongside our Physical Health Nurses for ensuring our seriously mentally ill patients receive their anti psychotic medication and physical health checks.
As well as having good knowledge of mental health conditions, anti-psychotic medication and associated side effects, you will need to be a highly organised person, able to adapt quickly.
Main duties of the job
* To coordinate and oversee the running of wellbeing and depot clinics, working closely and flexibly with a team of Physical Health Nurses as part of the Community Mental Health Hub. Provide comprehensive and accessible mental health services to service users in a clinic setting, working with people diagnosed with severe and enduring mental illness in the community.
* To engage with service users within the clinic setting, to assess mental state, physical health, monitor treatment, support concordance and ensure prompt action is taken to alleviate unwanted effects of prescribed medication to make every contact count (MECC).
* To assess physical health and deliver interventions to promote optimal physical wellbeing (i.e. smoking, weight and lifestyle issues) working closely with the physical health nurses.
* To lead and participate in the running of the weekly depot clinic, communicating any issues or concerns about depot patients with the relevant members of staff in the team.
* Demonstrate competency at running busy treatment clinics, develop a specialty in depot administration sharing knowledge of this to upskill other nurses in the team.
* Deliver training to other staff and students on the delivery of depots.
* Keyworking and to develop a process to ensure patients under depot-only provision are accessing medical reviews when required.
* Stocktake medication usage to ensure all medications are ordered and available.
Working for our organisation
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic, or in the patients' own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams, and the Trust.
With every new employee, we're hoping to find our future leaders and will support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities, and more, whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
* To participate in relevant meetings and effectively develop personal skills, knowledge, and experience through supervision and training.
* To undertake risk assessments, according to Trust policy.
* To assess physical health and deliver interventions to promote optimal physical wellbeing (i.e. smoking, weight, and lifestyle issues).
* To help clients gain fair and equal access to services, through choice and social inclusion, being sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability.
* To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies.
* To ensure CNWL Child Protection Guidelines and Safeguarding Children and Adult procedures are fully understood by self and others. To ensure the safety needs of children and adults are met at all times.
* To provide leadership for junior staff, through supervision and appraisal.
* To provide mentorship for students on placement within the team.
* To educate internal and external customers of Service, including students and junior staff of all professions.
* To care plan using DIALOG plus.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Professional Qualification at Diploma or Degree level in Mental Health nursing/ Social work or Occupational Therapy.
* Student supervision/mentoring qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Sound knowledge base.
* Excellent understanding of the therapeutic relationship and boundaries.
* Substantial post-basic experience in Mental Health.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of working in the community.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Excellent knowledge of MHA 2007, the MHA Bill, and MCA Varied clinical approaches. Client advocate.
* Understands & promotes equality, diversity, and human rights in accordance with legislation, policy, and procedures relating to recruitment.
* Understanding of confidentiality in the workplace.
Key Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
* Ability to develop & maintain high standards of communication both orally and in writing with people about difficult matters & in difficult situations.
Personal Disposition
Essential criteria
* Ability to maintain quality in own work and encourage others to do so.
* Car Owner with full driving license.
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