Job summary
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is the health provider for the delivery of the Integrated Mental Health Team (IMHT) at HMP Liverpool. The service is designed to support the holistic mental health and learning disability needs of our client group, in partnership with our Physical Health providers and HMPPS colleagues.
HMP Liverpool is a Category B, male only, local prisons, in the Liverpool area.
The service provides individual and group-based interventions based on the clinical needs of the population. The service is developing and will adopt the biopsychological model to inform practice and tailor interventions accordingly. These interventions will be individualised, and trauma informed, alongside comprehensive risk assessment and management.
Core aims of the service are to improve mental and psychological wellbeing via a range of interventions, build the development of independent core skills, reduce risk, and advocate for mental health and learning disabilities within the wider prison.
The post holder will be joining a dedicated team of clinical staff from a range of backgrounds and experience. Team members have high levels of skill, passion and enthusiasm (and humour!) and are committed to ensuring the on-going successful development of the service and the opportunities it provides for our population.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will working alongside fellow Nurses and the wider IMHT to support those in custody with mental health needs.
The post holder will have clinical responsibility via the application of relevant assessments and facilitating individual and group based interventions based on the holistic needs of the client group.
The post holder should have considerable experience of working with individuals with complex clinical and risk presentations including within institutional settings and as part of a multi-disciplinary team. This should include work with clients whose needs may mean that they find it difficult to engage with services.
Experience of working in complex service and organisational settings is required alongside an ability to constructively manage the personal, professional and ethical opportunities and challenges such work can involve.
Within the IMHT's, we prioritise the development of our staff team and have proven that we value and nurture diverse clinical interests. We are committed to creating an empowered staff team. We strive to be reflective and support of each other which is vital given the challenges this work can entail.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 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
Implement, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the policies and procedures relating to ordering,storage, checking and administration of drugs. As an internal care co-ordinator/case manager/care worker assess the total individual care needs ofpatients and plan, implement and evaluate an agreed suitable programme of care and recordinterventions and actions appropriately. Liaise with the Patient Care Team (PCT)/ Multi Disciplinary Team (MDT) and contribute to any changesin a patient's individual treatment plans. Initiate and record daily programmes of meaningful activity and ensure that staff act in accordancewith ward and hospital timetables of activity. Assist the PCT/MDT in ensuring that the requirements of mental health legislation are fullymet. Ensure a high standard of hygiene is maintained on the ward and liaise with domestic staff asnecessary. To safeguard the well being of patients and staff through adherence to relevant policiesand procedures infection control. Assist in the management of the ward and periodically take responsibility for the running of the serviceat ward level. To take responsibility for the escort of patients outside the hospital. Escort/accompany patients within the sites as appropriate. Assist in the management of the ward and periodically take responsibility for the running of the serviceat ward level. Ensure that the safety and security needs of the patients, patients relatives and friends and the publicare met in accordance with appropriate standards. To have a detailed knowledge and the practical skills, in order to carry out all security duties as statedby the NHS Safety and Security Directive and detailed in the Ashworth Security Procedures Manual. Maintain confidentiality of information. Take responsibility to maintain the standards of the ward environment. To report on incidents and complaints as required.
To provide and engage in clinical supervision and support ward staff asrequired. Participate in the induction of registered and none registered nursing staff in all aspects of nursingand wardmanagement. To support newly qualified nurses through the preceptorship programme. To fully engage in discussions with supervisor on personal development plans and then takeresponsibility for own personal development.
Encourage the promotion of good relationships between visitors, members of the MHAC, thegeneral public and the Secure & Specialist Learning Disability Division. Engage in ward and divisional audits, ensuring that quality standards are maintained. To always behave in a manner, which upholds the professional stature of Mersey Care NHS Trust.
Take relevant action on other duties allocated by the charge nurses and ward manager. To mobilise across the Secure & Specialist Learning Disability Division when required, in order to meetthe needs of the service. To maintain the dignity of service users at all times. To maintain service user confidentiality at all times both on and off duty. 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 Trusts Human Rights and Equality andDiversity exceptional circumstances to co-operate with reasonable requests from more senior staff to vary yourarea of work to meet unplanned clinical nee
Person Specification
Education/qualifications
Essential
1. Registered Mental Health Nurse
2. Registered on the NMC register
3. Demonstrates evidence of continued professional development
4. Excellent interpersonal skills
Desirable
5. Up to date portfolio
Skills and abilities
Essential
6. Able to assess, plan, implement & evaluate programmes of care
7. Can demonstrate application of theoretical models into practice
8. Proven communication skills (verbal & written)
9. Leadership skills: supervising, teaching & assessing; self motivated with the ability to motivate others; effective resource management
10. Uses initiative and can make decisions
11. Manages difficult situations effectively
12. Applies current research and theory into practice
13. Works well in a multi-disciplinary team
14. Able to organise and co-ordinate services during the absence of more senior staff
Desirable
15. Has participated in group teaching
Experience
Essential
16. Minimum of 18 months post qualification experience in mental health
17. Experience of using the Effective Care Coordination
18. Multi-disciplinary working
Desirable
19. Supervision of others
Knowledge and understanding
Essential
20. Mental Health Act 1983 (updated 2007)
21. NMC Code of Professional Conduct
22. Effective Care Co-ordination
23. Use of assessment tools/techniques
24. Promote people's equality, diversity & rights
25. Knowledge of Service Governance
26. Committed to clinical supervision
Special requirements
Essential
27. Commitment to working with people with severe mental health problems
28. Ability to complete PSS training
29. Enhanced DBS Disclosure