Band 5 Depot Clinic Nurse - Swindon

Avon And Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Nhs Trust; Swindon; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health care organization in Swindon is seeking a clinician to support service users with substantial mental health needs. Your responsibilities will include managing a depot clinic, providing comprehensive assessments, and collaborating with various services. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in community mental health care, with the ability to work independently and effectively.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with Older People in mental health care.
• Ability to work independently and manage caseloads.

Responsibilities

• Provide key interventions for service users with mental health needs.
• Manage the day-to-day running of the depot clinic.
• Develop and maintain partnership working with other services.

Skills

Knowledge of mental health care in the community

High-level decision-making ability

Proficiency with IT systems

Job description

Overview

You will be required to provide key interventions for an allocated caseload of service users with substantial and complex mental health needs. The CIT team supports a cohort of clients who administer regular LAI (long acting injectable) medication. The main role for these clients is depot clinic attendance for medication, with additional needs managed as a key worker for defined groups. The clinician will manage the day to day running of the depot clinic, support transfer to appropriate services, and contribute to the ongoing development of this service provision.

Responsibilities

1. To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings, including:
2. Use standardized assessment tools (e.g., PWP).
3. Take history, identify strengths and aspirations, assess mental state, consider culture and diversity, functional needs, and the needs of family and carers.
4. Evaluate risk, physical health, complicating factors, and determine the interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
5. Address safeguarding and public protection, assess capacity under the Mental Capacity Act.
6. Plan, deliver and review comprehensive and complex treatment programs using evidence-based practice, including risk management and involving other resources as required.
7. Act as a key worker for service users with the most complex needs, including providing interventions to individuals on other workers’ caseloads.
8. Plan, deliver and evaluate defined, specialist therapeutic interventions as indicated in the assessment process, in line with personal recovery plans, including service users on other caseloads. This may include:
9. a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention
10. b. Psychosocial interventions
11. c. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies
12. d. Medication management
13. e. Interventions under the Mental Health Act
14. Deliver a range of activities/interventions to improve carers’ ability to support the service user and their relationship with the service user.
15. Develop and maintain good partnership working with other services across the care pathway, including Primary Health Care Team, inpatient and intensive services, day services, Local Authority Swindon Borough Council, voluntary sector, and nominated carers/advocates.
16. Facilitate development of complex crisis contingency plans in collaboration with service users and carers.
17. Demonstrate leadership to build hopeful, strengths-based recovery plans with service users, focusing on personal recovery goals.
18. Maintain workload management for self and others, prioritizing time and using electronic resources (diaries/scheduling).
19. Protect individuals from abuse and harm in line with safeguarding policies; contribute to protection plans and information sharing.
20. Coordinate protective interventions as required by protection plans and take appropriate action.
21. Lead others in collaborative work with individuals with a range of mental health needs to develop self-management skills and recovery plans, using strengths-based approaches.
22. Undertake active clinical leadership and supervision within the team, including covering for colleagues as required.
23. Maintain health and clinical records (paper and electronic) in line with standards.
24. Report and record activity within agreed timeframes for information reporting and performance requirements.
25. Participate in management, caseload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy.
26. Provide mentoring/training for others in relevant practice areas, including safe learning environments for students and contributing to their objectives and assessments.
27. Develop own practice in line with professional qualifications and contribute to the development of others through feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal.
28. Monitor health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action as required.
29. Develop knowledge and practice, and contribute to others’ development by using feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify learning opportunities.
30. Lead, maintain and participate in practices that enable effective team working.
31. Participate in duty rota and local arrangements to ensure consistent care across the local geography.

Qualifications and Experience

• Knowledge in the delivery of mental health care in the community with particular reference to Older People; understanding of PWP and Care Management processes.
• Demonstrate high level decision-making ability and capacity to work independently.
• Proficiency with IT systems for data and documentation.

About Us

We are Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We serve approximately 1.8 million people across Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, Wiltshire and parts of Dorset. AWP is committed to a diverse workforce and a positive research and evidence-based environment. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, including Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, LGBTQ+ communities, people with lived experience of mental health conditions, and people with disabilities. We offer flexible working arrangements and seek to meet the needs of staff and service users.