Senior Mental Health Practitioner - Knowsley, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Knowsley, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Nurse Practitioner to work within our well established, forward thinking Later Life and Memory Service in Knowsley.

In return, you will join a supportive and enthusiastic team at an exciting stage in its development and also benefit from the Trust's high commitment to staff development, supervision and training.

You will have support from nursing colleagues. You will also have regular professional supervision. Access to transport is essential.

Consideration will be given to Band 5 applicants as a development role.

This is a new initiative and should you want any further information please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Interviews planned for 3rd March 2023

The post holder will be part of a new initiative, working to improve improve dementia diagnosis in care homes and overall dementia care.

This is part of NHS Englands DiaDem Pilot.

The post holder will be expected to work autonomously as a practitioner but working closely with care homes to identify appropriate referrals and use appropriate assessment tool to gain collateral information and use a DiaDem to establish a dementia diagnosis.

Following the diagnosis, information and support will be given to the person living with dementia and family/carers.

The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers.

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.

CLINICAL:

Participate in regular clinical supervision as per Trust policy.

Participate in practice/clinical supervision to monitor standards of service user care and documentation.

Assist with the appropriate screening of referrals and provide information for referrers, service uses and carers

Develop and maintain effective working partnerships with services in other statutory and non-statutory organisations

Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways, including appropriate service user assessments/referrals and models of care.

Ensure the clinical environment is conducive to promote service users health, safety and well-being, thereby preserving and respecting each service user's personal dignity, privacy, religious and cultural
beliefs.

Ensure record keeping is in accordance with Professional and Trust standards.

Ensure the safe management of medicines and adhere to safe practice and principles of administration in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct and Trust Medicines Code.

Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the Multi-disciplinary team.

Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.

Responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision and act as Named Nurse as required.

Participate and assist in setting standards of service user care based on sound research findings.

Where indicated and following completion of the relevant training the practitioner will act as a nonmedical prescriber, at all times working within their sphere of clinical competence.

Ensure that service users are cared for within the confines of their respective Mental Health Act status and adhere to the requirements of the MHA 1983 and the corresponding Code of Practice.

Ensure that Trust policies and procedures are adhered to.

Assist in the development of local protocols to ensure a high standard of service delivery is achieved and maintained.

Support the process of staff participation in the formulation of new ideas/suggestions to improve service user care and service delivery.

Provide statistical information as required.

Ensure effective processes of communication are established, maintained and regularly evaluated within designated team.

Assist in the investigation of complaints and incidents in accordance with Trust policy.

Participate in Serious Untoward Incident investigations/reviews as required Co-ordinate utilities, equipment and services and report/refer issues to respective managers where necessary.

Ensure that the nursing practice within the clinical area adh