As a Registered Nurse, you provide direct personal care to service users/patients, without direct supervision, and co-ordinate the care given by colleagues.
The post holder will deliver high-quality safe nursing care, ensuring consistently high standards of practice and clinical excellence which comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of professional conduct.
The role includes leading the delivery of comprehensive service user assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of person-centred care in a collaborative way. The post holder will co-ordinate a first-class service that includes assessment and monitoring of physical health, maintaining service users' rights, supervising junior staff and students, working collaboratively with the Multi-Disciplinary Team, and maintaining a safe and therapeutic working environment and accurate records.
The vacancies exist in Virginia Woolf.
Main duties of the job
1. Co-ordinating and evaluating collaborative patient-centred care, getting feedback and improving plans with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
2. Providing accurate information about care in an accessible format to patients and their relatives.
3. Liaising and working positively with members of the multi-disciplinary team and partners.
4. Administering and monitoring the side-effects of medication and monitoring service user safety.
5. Ensuring safe custody of medicines, sharps, clinical equipment, and reporting all incidents following trust policy.
About us
Why Work Here?
Excellent career progression, development, and support for the right candidate. There will be opportunities to learn and develop many skills, including working with and supporting clients with severe mental illness and widely varying complex needs, risk assessment, and risk management.
There is a high level of opportunity to develop as a band 5 nurse. We offer additional training that is specialised to our service, giving you risk assessment and risk management skills which are invaluable in the mental health profession.
As well as a robust support package, you'll benefit from regular supervision and an appraisal, and access to Preceptorship and Mentorship to help you develop. Our 9-month Preceptorship programme for newly qualified nurses helps you as a nurse to fully embed and develop your skills.
You will have the opportunity to work autonomously to provide care for presenting service users from initial contact and assessment, formulating and delivering care plans, and evaluation of care. You will assess the risks and needs of service users to plan and evaluate care using a collaborative approach with service users and their carers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Developing the management of care needs through initial data collection, monitoring of individual service user/patient progress, feedback, and discussion, producing reports and in-care reviews.
2. Devising a plan of care and interventions supervised by a Registered Nurse.
3. Leading and directing junior staff in providing hands-on care to service users, including undertaking 1-1 engagement with service users in an honest, open, and non-judgmental manner.
4. Recognising and valuing service users as individuals, acknowledging the importance of maintaining the service users' respect and dignity at all times and ensuring that the care provided respects equality.
5. Developing care plans that reflect service user needs and relevant patient care documentation, working in partnership with service users, wider MDT, and friends/relatives/significant others.
6. Ensuring the monitoring and recording of service user clinical observations are undertaken, such as physical observations and vital signs, and treating or escalating as appropriate any signs or symptoms of deterioration.
7. Promoting healthy lifestyles and giving health promotion advice, implementing the principles of recovery: encouraging and supporting service users to engage with healthy lifestyles, facilitating psychosocial activities and other activities of their interest.
8. Escorting service users, as required, in line with Trust policies.
9. Facilitating the admission and discharge of service users, ensuring the needs of the patient and service, including relevant legislative or required documentation.
10. Advocating for service users' needs and rights within Trust, encouraging and empowering service users to have an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programme of care.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
* Registered Adult Nurse and/or Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse.
Desirable
* Mentorship qualification.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
* Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g., understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude, and knowledge and develop these by using evidence-based practice.
Desirable
* Experience of shift co-ordination.
* Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students.
Knowledge / Skills
Essential
* Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation.
* Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service users' needs, without close supervision.
* Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations.
Desirable
* IT skills, skilled in supervision of others, and in providing critical and constructive feedback.
Approachable
Essential
* Self-aware, self-confident, and intrinsically motivated to do a good job and to motivate others.
* Forms very effective working relationships with colleagues.
* Advocates for all individuals, particularly those with protected characteristics, promoting equality and diversity.
Employer details
Employer name
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Ladywell Unit,
Lewisham High Street
Lewisham
SE13 6LW
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