To provide quality evidence-based nursing advice, support and care for service users with mental health needs and their carers within a multidisciplinary setting.
Principle Responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•The facilitation, promotion and supervision of education, clinical practices and audit.
•Take the lead for clinical workstreams such as infection prevention and control.
•Oversee the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care within agreed parameters, and have a working knowledge of local and national policies and legislation which govern service provision.
•Identifying and contributing to others’ training needs.
•Ensuring the promotion of equality, diversity, and rights in accordance with good practice and legislation.
•Ensuring effective communication pathways exist.
Clinical
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•The assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the evidence-based care required, including health promotion for a named service user/group.
•Setting quality standards, including monitoring and reviewing in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy.
•Understanding and meeting their professional role and responsibilities under the Care Programme Approach and all other relevant legislation.
•Ensuring the Mental Health Act 1983 requirements are observed, adhered to and implemented.
•Promoting carer and service user involvement within the service and its provision.
•Establishing therapeutic relationships with service users and implementing evidence-based therapeutic interventions with appropriate boundaries per the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code.
Professional
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Participation in the Options for Care appraisal process, identifying own/others’ mandatory professional, personal development and training needs.
•The safe custody and administration of medicines.
•To participate and contribute appropriately to research, service modernisation and clinical governance.
•To respect and value the different therapeutic approaches within the multi-disciplinary team but ensure that the agreed philosophy approach is adopted and followed.
•Ensuring confidentiality is maintained at all times in accordance with the data protection act, trust policy and good practice.
•Maintaining and conducting oneself professionally towards service users, carers, colleagues and other agencies.
•Participate in joint working with appropriate experts/agencies.
Educational
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Providing formal and informal training for pre-post-registration students, staff members, carers and service users.
•The provision of staff induction, mentorship, appraisal and clinical supervision to professional colleagues as appropriate.
Organisational
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Ensuring they contribute and work towards the service/organisational aims and objectives.
•To understand their responsibility for respecting and promoting issues of equality, diversity and rights in accordance with good practice and legislation.
•Reading, understanding and complying with all relevant policies and procedures.
Communication
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Ensuring accurate and timely written records that comply with organisational policy and NMC guidance, reporting on any issues as appropriate.
•Ensuring they comply with current good practice in informing/updating all multi-disciplinary team members, their colleagues, service users and appropriate others of changes involving current nursing care plans, progress, mental state and psychosocial factors in line with best practice.
•Ensuring that they communicate with clients and carers and actively listen to establish an understanding of the needs of the service user and their carers.
•The effective utilisation of nursing/financial resources to ensure adequate clinical care is provided with a requirement that all incidents, which may compromise care, are reported immediately to the registered manager.
Additional Responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Attend statutory and mandatory training as necessary as specified by Options for Care Ltd.
•Carry out other duties the senior team identifies commensurate with their role as and when required.
•Attend meetings as necessary.