Job summary
The post holder will be required to work across both primary and secondary care. The post holder will be responsible for coordinating and navigating the patient across Intermediate Care Service pathways to ensure effective discharge planning of complex patients who are deemed to be medically optimised including facilitating and influencing the discharge or admission avoidance process. The post holder will be responsible for improving patient health outcomes and ensuring efficient bed utilization and patient flow. The Mental Health Nurse will need to be able to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team promoting patient centered care.
Within the Acute/Community the post holder will be assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care demonstrating evidence based/best practice, considering own clinical confidence and competence within their sphere of mental health practice. The post holder will need to demonstrate the ability to implement enhanced programmers and maintain high standards of clinical intervention to provide Nursing care for service users accessing the range of intermediate care services.PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE A HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be part of an integrated service inclusive of health and social care staff, working collaboratively with both primary and secondary care professionals. The post holder shall act as an expert resource for the multidisciplinary team and work collaboratively with Care Home staff and management for all patients that are placed onto Pathway One, Two or Three and awaiting further health and social care assessments.
The post holder will review and assess patients that are Walsall residents or have a registered Walsall G.P on ICS Pathways One, Two or Three with an identified Mental Health condition or need.
The post holder should be able to identify the key stages where the patient will require interventions that influence their care, this shall include, but not limited, to contributing to the implementation and monitoring of assessment tools to ensure optimum safety and care in relation to Mental Health conditions.
The post Holder shall empower staff in their personal and professional development to undertake a greater range of skills to modernise and improve patient care, including the uptake of training related to Mental Health conditions.
The post holder will be a source of specialist knowledge and expertise, providing support to the integrated team in their day-to-day management of patients who present with Mental Health conditions. Excellent communication skills are essential for this role.
About us
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300. It provides inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010, and ongoing upgrades ensure the Trust now has state-of-the-art facilities, including a Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit. A new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity, providing almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Ensure resources such as 1:1 care in a secondary care setting is used in a cost effective and efficient manner.
- To make initial response to complaints following the Trusts complaints procedure in line with the Trust policy.
- To allocate workload to junior members of the team when appropriate and in the absence of the Team Manager.
- To support junior member of the team in caseload management.
- To line manage Band 3-5 where appropriate.
- Work with hospital and community managers to collect activity data that will inform and guide service delivery.
Work with Team Manager to develop `Risk Management procedures that enhance continuity of patient care and minimise the risks associated with discharge / transfer of care to the primary setting and ongoing care in the community.
Act in a professional manner always whilst on Walsall Healthcare NHS Trusts business and demonstrate excellence in clinical practice, ensuring compliance to Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust policies and procedures.
Participate and lead in multidisciplinary team meetings, decision support tool assessments, continuing health checklists, joint assessments with the community Mental Health team and best interests meetings where appropriate.
Provide professional and clinical leadership, mentorship and clinical expertise to the staff caring for patients with Mental Health conditions within ICS.
Provide leadership on the delivery of evidence based best practice for Mental Health conditions.
To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information
To play a proactive role in quality and service improvement and work closely with the ICS team manager and the Mental Health matron and multi-disciplinary team will contribute to the monitoring and auditing of clinical standards of care of patients on the ICS pathway.
To take part regular performance appraisal, PDR and clinical supervision.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Mental Health Nurse level 1 / 2
- Education to diploma or degree level and able to demonstrate evidence of post registration professional development
- Extensive evidence of personal and professional development
Desirable
- Extensive evidence of personal and professional development
- V300 non-medical prescriber or working towards
- Experience of leading clinical teams at band 6 or equivalent
- Recognised leadership qualification
- Teaching/ coaching qualification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Multi-disciplinary working
- Post registration practice within a secondary care setting
- Demonstrate experience in leadership and role modelling in practice
- Experience of teaching, training, supervision of Mental Health professionals and mentoring pre-registration students
- Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing difficulties, at times with people with mental Health conditions which could pose a risk to others
- oWorking or in-depth knowledge of NHS polices affecting intermediate care services
- oIn depth knowledge of clinical governance.
- oKnowledge of legislation pertinent to role
- oEvidence of effectively implementing change in clinical practice.
- oSound working Knowledge of the legal and policy framework underpinning the Mental Health service provision, for example: Mental Health Act, Mental capacity Act, National service frameworks, The Care Act.
Desirable
- Experience of effective staff management
- Experience of standard setting and clinical audit
- Experience of working in a band 6 role
- Understanding of financial and resource management processes
Skills and Aptitudes
Essential
- oAbility to apply research findings and support evidence-based practice.
- oSpecialist Nursing Knowledge of caring for people with a Mental Health condition for adults over the age of 18.
- oIT literate with a sound knowledge of Microsoft Office and assessment re-design
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Address
Intermediate Care Services, Walsall Manor Hospital
Moat Road
Walsall
WS29PS
United Kingdom
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