The First Response Service is looking to recruit passionate, experienced Senior Nurse Practitioners to join the team in both the Mid and North First Response Service.
This is a demanding and challenging role where, as a successful candidate you will undertake triage and assessments for people who present in Mental health crisis. You will be required to demonstrate high levels of resilience, excellent problem solving and inter-personal skills as well as the ability to provide sound clinical and managerial advice and support to team members.
The post holder will also demonstrate a passion for quality improvement and an attitude which respects and values service users' choice and works alongside them and their carers to ensure they are at the centre of care planning.
Shortlisting planned for 2 December. Interviews planned for 18 December.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be competent in mental health assessment and identifying and managing risk.
Professional responsibility for the Community Mental Health Team and in the setting and adhering to the overall standards, which will include assessment of need and delivery of care within the context of Effective Care Coordination.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers.
The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. To coordinate the care of service users carrying out assessments, evaluation and safety planning under the supervision of the clinical leads.
2. To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that unqualified staff are delivering care as identified in the care plan.
3. To liaise with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
4. To undertake and supervise risk assessments and formulation of risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team, family members, carers and significant others.
5. To ensure Safeguarding Children and Adults requirements are followed and participate in meetings as appropriate.
6. To support unqualified staff to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
7. To participate in setting standards for care based on sound evidence based and research findings.
8. To communicate to other members of the multi-disciplinary team information which has an impact on the service users care.
9. To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
10. To check understanding of information where there are barriers to effective communications.
11. To give and receive accurate up-to-date information regarding service users care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings etc. These reviews may be external to the trust.
12. To have accurate and up-to-date knowledge of the Mental Health Act / Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation.
13. To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record. To supervise and monitor the entries made by unqualified staff.
14. To ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per trust policy and that any follow up action is taken.
15. To react pro-actively in cases of service user crisis and put in place immediate plans to resolve the situation with supervision and guidance as appropriate.
16. To actively participate in team meetings, development and reflective practice.
PROFESSIONAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. To be responsible for maintaining relevant professional registration and PREP requirements.
2. To participate in ongoing learning to maintain and develop practice utilising CPD, self-directed learning reflective practice coaching mentorship clinical supervision and performance management in the interests and needs of yourself and the service.
3. To provide an effective link between mental health services and primary care, acting in an advisory capacity to professionals in other fields.
4. To develop effective working relationships with other professionals outside of the Trust to enhance the delivery of care to service users.
5. To participate as a supervisor and supervisee in the Divisional performance management / supervision framework.
6. To take responsibility for maintaining and developing own knowledge and skills within own area of work.
7. To attend, as appropriate, courses and conferences, and to feedback and share knowledge, gained from attendance.
8. To be professionally accountable for own actions as a registered practitioner.
9. To act, always, in accordance with trust policies and procedures, ensuring that unqualified staff are adhering to policy and procedure.
10. To undertake mandatory training as identified by the Trust and Division to ensure that all actions are in line with training.
11. To keep up to date with developments in professional practice and make recommendations for change to senior staff, as appropriate.
ORGANISATIONAL
1. To adhere to the Trusts right based approach considering service user choice.
2. 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.
3. To ensure familiarity with the terms and conditions of own post.
4. To take responsibility for identifying, reporting and managing environmental risk as necessary e.g. liaison with facilities.
5. To participate in service development as required.
OTHER
1. To maintain service user confidentiality in line with Caldecott Guidance both on and off duty.
2. To ensure that work is conducted in accordance with the Trusts Equality and diversity Strategy in a Human Rights approach and to contribute to its development.
3. To always maintain appropriate professional boundaries with service users both on and off duty.
4. To co-operate with reasonable requests from senior staff to vary your area of work to meet unplanned clinical need.
5. In exceptional circumstances to co-operate with reasonable requests from more senior staff to vary your area of work to meet unplanned clinical need.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Evidence of strong leadership and management skills.
* Experience of managing case loads and co-ordinating care.
* Experience providing meaningful supervision to staff.
* Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies.
* Experience of working in partnership with other agencies, service users and carers.
* Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance.
* Experience in change management and policy formulation.
* Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. RADAR.
* Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews.
* Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings.
Values
Essential
* Continuous Improvement.
* Accountability.
* Respectfulness.
* Enthusiasm.
* Support.
* High professional standards.
* Responsive to service users.
* Engaging leadership style.
* Transparency and honesty.
* Change oriented.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
* Effective communication using a range of methods.
* Being responsive and flexible.
* Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
* Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of staff both internal and external to the organisation.
* Demonstrates knowledge of relevant mental health legislation.
* Demonstrates understanding of crisis response pathways.
* Knowledge of mentorship and preceptorship with ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff and students.
* Can recognise and implement strategies to combat development needs and gaps in own knowledge.
Qualifications/Training
Essential
* Appropriate professional qualification or experience at Degree Level e.g. RMN, AHP, Social Worker.
* Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development e.g. Mentorship in Practice.
Desirable
* Working towards master level education.
Personal Attributes
Essential
* Professional attitude.
* Possess excellent listening, de-escalation and negotiation skills.
* Upholds excellent oral and written communication and documentation.
* Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
* The ability to lead change management.
* Ability to contribute to developing care excellence within the team.
Other
Essential
* On going post-registration development.
* Able to demonstrate flexibility in working hours.
Employer details
Employer name
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Hollins Park/Clock View Hospital, Warrington/Liverpool, WA28WA
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