Community Psychiatric Nurse

NHS Jobs; Wallington (NJ); On-site; USD 61,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust is seeking a senior mental health nurse to lead and support junior staff, delivering high-quality nursing care within a recovery-focused framework. You will engage with patients, carers and the MDT to plan and evaluate care, ensuring safety and dignity at all times.

You will undertake risk assessments, monitor progress, document care plans and work to promote healthy lifestyles and psychosocial activities, within Trust policies.

Responsibilities

• Work autonomously, lead and support junior staff to deliver quality nursing care.
• Lead on fundamentals of care and coordinate MDT care, informing patients and their relatives/carers.
• Teach risk assessment and risk management using evidence, knowledge of service users, and clinical judgment.
• Supervise care management: initial data collection, monitoring of progress, feedback, and care plans.
• Coordinate hands-on care, engage with service users, respect dignity and diversity, and document observations.
• Escort service users as required and advocate for their rights within Trust policy.
• Promote recovery principles, healthy lifestyles, and psychosocial activities.

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• 1. Working autonomously within the parameters of the role leading and supporting junior staff and wider care team to implement the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational and spiritual care in a recovery-focused way through therapeutic engagement and activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise.


• 2. Leading on and undertaking activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met - nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional and social support: Co-ordinating and evaluating collaborative patient centred care; getting feedback and improving plans with the multi- disciplinary team (MDT). Providing accurate information about care in an accessible format to patients and their relatives / carers. Liaising and working positively with members of the multi- disciplinary team and partner organisations. Administering, and monitoring the side-effects of, medication; monitoring service user compliance. Safety; safe custody of medicines, sharps, clinical equipment, report allincidents following trust policy.


• 3. Leading and supporting/teaching junior staff on risk assessment and risk management that involves making decisions based on knowledge of the research evidence, knowledge of the individual service user and their social context, knowledge of the service users own experience and clinical judgment.


• 4. Supporting and supervising junior staff to develop the management of care needs through:
  
  
  
  • Initial data collection
  
  
  • Monitoring of individual service user / patient progress
  
  
  • Feedback and discussion
  
  
  • Producing reports and in-care reviews
  
  
  • Devising a plan of care and interventions in partnership with service user, carer and MDT
  
  
  
  


• 5. Coordinating junior staff and the wider care team in providing hands-on care to service users and evaluating processes of care delivered. This will include: Undertaking 1-1 engagement with service users in an honest, open and non-judgmental way. Recognising and valuing service users as individuals, acknowledging theimportance of maintaining the service users respect and dignity at all times and ensure that the care provided respects equality and diversity. Developing care plans that reflect service user needs and relevant patient care documentation working in partnership with service users, wider MDT and family/carers. Ensuring the monitoring and recording service user clinical observations are undertaken, such as physical observations and vital signs and treating or escalating as appropriate any signs or symptoms of deterioration or that does not fulfil the personal parameters to the relevant professional for treatment. Promote healthy lifestyles and give health promotion advice and support. Implementing the principles of recovery: encouraging and supporting service users to engage with healthy lifestyles, facilitating psychosocial activities and other activities of their interest. Where appropriate contributing to psychological interventions.


• 6. Escorting service users, as required, in line with Trust policies.


• 7. Advocating for service users needs and rights within Trust policy. Encouraging and empowering service users to have an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programme of care.

£45,953 - £54,254 per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS

South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust

£47,951 - £56,863 per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAs

South West London and St Georges Mental Health Trust