Staff Nurse | East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in the United Kingdom seeks a dedicated professional to manage a community caseload, ensuring high standards of service delivery. The role requires forensic nursing experience and emphasizes culturally competent care. Candidates must establish strong relationships with service users while adhering to the Mental Health Act and promoting user-focused services. This position involves actively participating in audits and guiding multi-disciplinary team members to deliver care effectively.

Qualifications

• Must have forensic nursing experience.
• Understanding of Health & Safety requirements.
• Ability to establish therapeutic relationships with clients.

Responsibilities

• Manage a community caseload ensuring high standards of care.
• Liaise with General Practice and Primary Care colleagues.
• Participate in audits and surveys relevant to the team.

Skills

Forensic nursing experience

Cultural competency

Risk management

Therapeutic relationship building

Team coordination

Job description

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for an identified community caseload, ensuring high standard of professional conduct to comply with best practice and professional accountabilities.
• Must have a forensic nursing experience.
• To promote a service user focused service.
• Participate in audits and surveys relevant to the team.
• To participate in development of new policies and procedures as required.
• Ensure that clients receive a culturally competent service.
• To co-ordinate the day-to-day activity and manage the workload of the Team.
• To ensure the legal requirements of the Mental Health Act (1983) and subsequent amendments are adhered to.
• To establish and maintain good relationships with service users, carers and voluntary sector colleagues.
• To provide best evidence practice to service users which complies with legislation, policies and procedures and relevant quality, governance and local and national guidelines.
• Liaise with General Practice and Primary Care colleagues to promote partnership working.
• Ensuring that the local demographics are taken into consideration for service provision and improvement.

Core Responsibilities

• To be responsible for an identified community caseload, ensuring high standard of professional conduct to comply with best practice and professional accountabilities.
• To participate in the assessments and selection of potential clients ensuring that their physical/psychological and social needs are taken into account at all times.
• Seek to establish a therapeutic relationship with individual clients and their families.
• To ensure that clients in the community with behavioural problems, e.g. violent or potentially violent clients are identified in caseload and that caution and care is taken when visiting such clients, if necessary organising joint visits and being mindful of the lone worker policy.
• To co-ordinate the day-to-day activity and manage the workload of the Team.
• To ensure the legal requirements of the Mental Health Act (1983) and subsequent amendments are adhered to.
• To establish and maintain good relationships with service users, carers and voluntary sector colleagues.
• To provide best evidence practice to service users which complies with legislation, policies and procedures and relevant quality, governance and local and national guidelines.
• Liaise with General Practice and Primary Care colleagues to promote partnership working.
• Awareness and understanding of effective use of risk management techniques.

Mission & Values

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.

Additional Responsibilities

• Deliver a high quality, service user focused service that identified and addresses actual needs.
• Provide a best evidence practice to service users, which complies with legislation, policies and procedures and relevant quality, governance and local/national guidelines.
• To take a proactive approach to ensure all targets and standards set by the HCC, CSCI or Local Authorities relevant to the area of work/team are achieved.
• To promote a service user focused service.
• Participate in audits and surveys relevant to the team.
• To participate in development of new policies and procedures as required.
• Ensure that clients receive a culturally competent service.
• To guide and support multi-disciplinary team members in delivering the care as documented within the clients’ care plan.
• Receive regular feedback from service users and carers on the service provided by the team and ensure the unit manager is aware of any areas of concern.
• Assist in the review of operational policies and procedures on an annual basis.
• To ensure systems are implemented for effective Health & Safety management.
• All complaints will be responded to within the time specified, and incidents and near misses will be reported in line with Trust Policy.
• Assist in ensuring results of research undertaken relating to national and international best practice are applied within the unit.
• To develop close links with relatives/carers and ensure that effective communication takes place especially when clients are admitted or being prepared for discharge from hospital and that all appropriate agencies are informed, so that follow-up care can take place.
• Ensuring that the local demographics are taken into consideration for service provision and improvement.
• To adhere to Health & Safety requirements.
• To be aware of the Trust Complaints Policy in order to promote excellence of service and consumer satisfaction.