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East London NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting an experienced nurse to join the Intensive Support Team, providing seven-day crisis response for adults with learning disabilities and co-occurring mental health or distress behaviours.
In this role you will support the Team Manager, lead staff, and help develop services in line with national standards, while ensuring high-quality care and a strong focus on patient involvement and safety.
The Intensive Support Team provides, 7 days a week crisis response, to adults with a learning disability, this includes support with additional complex mental health issues and or behaviour of distress. IST provide robust support in the community, and support to mainstream mental health services, when the individual requires a period of assessment.
The post holder will assist the Team Manager in all aspects of the Intensive Support Team, ensuring high quality service delivery to adults with a learning disability and additional mental health and or behaviour of distress. The post holder provide guidance and direction to the staff team, and will assist to develop the service in line with local and nationally agreed standards.
The post holder is a nurse, acting within their professional boundaries, will provide care for the presenting person from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. They will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and risk management skills, for service users. The post holder will demonstrate critical thinking, clinical decision-making process. They will work collaboratively meeting the needs of service users, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures, and providing nurse leadership. In addition, the post holder will be critical in the development of mainstreaming and partnership working.
The post holder will be responsible for:
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
To report any adverse reactions to medication using appropriate mechanism.
To identify and regularly meet with a medical supervisor discussing the care of people and accessing support with the implementation of agreed clinical management plans.
To have an awareness and understanding of effective use of risk management techniques.
To take the lead in auditing clinical practice