registered nurse Liverpool, England
Job description
As a result of the post-holder being effective in their role, The Trust would expect to see the following outcomes for the Trust, service users and the wider community:
1. Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as a leading provider of community services, mental health care, addiction services and learning disability care.
1) Service users receive a high quality service and one which is free from stigma, discrimination and harm.
2) Staff are engaged with the delivery, innovation and continuous improvement of services to benefit service users.
3) Visible and responsive leadership, setting the standard for others and role-modelled throughout the division for all managers
4) The Trust values of Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Respectfulness and Enthusiasm will be embedded across the division for all staff and evident to service users.
5) To drive forward a culture of change, innovation and modernisation in partnership with all stakeholders.
6) Effective management and deployment of support services across the division. The post holder will ensure that a consistent approach to the delivery of high quality effective services is taken which is underpinned by standardised processes and protocols.
7) Provide and ensure excellent leadership and communication structures are in place across all Community services.
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust has a trust wide service agenda to improve the Physical Health and reduce premature immortality of our Severe and Enduring Mental Health population. The role will require the screening, assessment, brief intervention and sign posting for our clients
already open to our mental health services, to promote their physical health and well being. The role will require the co-ordination of physical health clinics, outreach appointments and collaboration with
existing team members to ensure all clients receive an annual health screening. The position will also include liaison with the MDT and Primary Care Liaison leads, to provide seamless all-round care for the client and keep primary care services informed of the clients care. This role will also provide support around performance monitoring and Quality across the inpatient and community services. Providing performance data, audits and action planning.
Training will also be offered to the successful nurses, which then will be required to be disseminated to the teams in the community. In this unique position, the physical health nurses will be leading the way
in screening and physical health promotion for our clients and provide advice and guidance to the MDT around physical health outcomes.
The Physical health team will be a separate team that services the Local Division, therefore will be required to travel between sites.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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.
To communicate with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the communication of any relevant information that has an impact on the service user’s physical care.
8. To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills gained through training or experience to impart sensitive information.
9. To check understanding of information where there are often barriers to effective
communications due to distress, 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 the reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the Trust.
11. To provide and co-ordinate the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users and monitor their effectiveness.
12. To take responsibility for the safe administration of medication to service users ensuring that the Trust policies and procedures and the Nursing & Midwifery Councils regulations are adhered
to.
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. To supervise and monitor the entries
made by unqualified staff.
14. To under the guidance of a supervisor provide reports both in written and verbal formats as requested e.g. for a service user multi disciplinary team meeting or CPA review.
15. To contribute to teaching sessions in order to pass on knowledge and skills.
16. To ensure that all incidents or near misses are documented as per Trust policy and that any follow up action is taken.
17. To actively participate in service user reviews ensuring that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions.
18. To develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and wellbeing to help them to obtain their optimum health.
19. To react pro-actively in cases of service user physical health crisis and put in place immediate plans to resolve the situation with supervision and guidance as appropriate.
20. To assist in the assessment and supervision of nursing and other students.
21. To assess and monitor the physical health of service users, seeking advice and support from medical staff as appropriate.
22. To actively participate in team meetings in order to positively influence team working and the development of research based practice.
23. To participate in the induction of new staff.
24. To maintain safe custody of medicines, sharps and other clinical equipment.
25. To manage own time and workload, prioritising work appropriately.
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This job description is an outline and account of the main duties. Any changes will be discussed with the post holder in advance but will also be reviewed regularly to take into account changes and
developments in service requirements. The post holder has the right to request a review should they feel there have been significant changes to their role.
