Main area: Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Grade Band: 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Internal rotation)
Job ref: 350-MHC6823718
Site: Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Sid Watkins building, Aintree hospital site
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 29/12/2024 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.
Job overview
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre is a Headway Accredited Service and strives to deliver perfect care for the people we serve.
We are looking for a Registered Mental Health Nurse who has completed their preceptorship to join our enthusiastic multi-disciplinary team which consists of neuro-psychiatry, neuro-psychology, nursing, OT, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and social work.
You will be working as a named nurse within the team on a twelve bedded inpatient unit which provides a service to a wide population with a variety of needs including cognitive, emotional and behavioural support.
You will receive regular supervision and have the opportunity to develop your knowledge base around the speciality of brain injury whilst maintaining your professional competencies around the knowledge and skills framework.
If you enjoy a challenge and can work with a team that strives to achieve common goals, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
1. To function as a named nurse to a defined group of service users, coordinating their assessment and planning, implementing and evaluating their care.
2. To take charge of the clinical area in the absence of a more senior qualified nurse, covering a 24-hour system of rostering; including internal rotation, as required.
3. To act up for senior ward staff in their absence.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To co-ordinate the assessment of service users and take responsibility for planning, implementing and evaluating of care under the guidelines of the care programme approach. To supervise junior members of staff that are assisting with this.
2. To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual and that junior staff are delivering care as laid down in the care plan.
3. To liaise appropriately with family members, carers and significant others when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
4. To develop a risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team.
5. To direct junior staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.
6. To participate or take the lead, as directed, in setting standards for care based on evidence based practice.
7. To co-ordinate the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users that you have responsibility for.
8. To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training and experience to impart sensitive information e.g. diagnosis or symptoms to service users and their families.
9. To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress, brain injury/psychiatric symptoms or where English is not the first language.
10. To use skills gained through training and experience to give and receive information to other individuals with regards to a service user’s care in reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings.
11. To have an in-depth knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983, responsibilities of the nurse and the rights of service users.
12. To provide and co-ordinate the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users and monitor their effectiveness.
13. To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service user’s care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health record.
14. To actively participate in ward meetings in order to positively influence team working and the development of evidence based practice.
15. To provide nursing reports both in written and verbal formats as requested.
16. To take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Nursing/Midwifery Councils regulations are followed.
17. To act as a mentor to junior staff and nursing students.
18. To lead and devise teaching sessions in order to pass on knowledge and skills.
19. To assist the senior ward staff in the implementation of change or new systems within the area.
20. To use highly developed skills to assess and monitor the physical/mental health of service users, seeking an opinion from other professionals where appropriate.
21. To use highly developed skills to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or verbally aggressive.
22. To direct the team in order to ensure that medical or psychiatric emergencies are acted on promptly and appropriately.
23. To ensure that junior staff members get appropriate support following untoward incidents.
24. To ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per trust policy and that any follow-up action is taken.
25. To lead service user reviews ensuring that service users needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions.
26. To participate in the induction of new staff.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse
* Evidence of post registration study
Knowledge/Experience
* Experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems
* Experience of working as a named/associate nurse
* Experience of working in a ward environment
* Be able to demonstrate a sound knowledge base and relate personal experience of use of: Effective Care Co-ordination, Care Planning and evaluation, Quality and clinical audit, Mental Health Act & Health & Safety/Risk Management
* Demonstrate a good knowledge of the Code of Conduct and the nurse’s responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base
* Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Able to communicate effectively
* Possess good listening and negotiation skills
* Ability to work as a member of a team demonstrating leadership qualities
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