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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

 Providing assessments and supporting diagnosis for people with Mental Health problems

• Comprehensive cognitive assessments in the Service Users home
• Working effectively with the MDT
• Facilitating Mental Health practitioner led groups in the department. To encourage and develop teamwork within the team.
• Working effectively with our partners e.g., Local authority, Alzheimer’s Society and Age UK
• Excellent knowledge of the Mental health act and Mental Capacity Act
• To ensure a safe working environment
• To work with the Team in maintain excellent standards.
• Proactively collect feedback from Service Users and their Carers.
• Cover other teams/services, where necessary, which may require working on other sites.
• Education and training for the MDT or junior staff.
• Prioritising the weekly MDT meeting, ensuring the quality of the meeting is maintained.
• always Maintaining confidentiality
• Working therapeutically with your Service Users and carers promoting social inclusion and recovery

Clinical Skills

• To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
• The post holder will have Current Effective Status on the relevant Professional Body i.e. NMC.
• Further professional knowledge will have been gained through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes.
• To be responsible, and accountable, for service delivery to clients
• To be able to assess and develop plans of care to meet the needs of clients under Memory Service
• To make a full assessment of a person’s health and well -being, related mental health and social care needs and risk factors.
• To carry out specialist cognitive assessments such as ACE-111, MOCA
• To ensure that assessments and care plans reflect the psychological, emotional, social care, treatment, intervention, and risk management needs appropriate to adults with memory loss.
• To be able to initiate referrals to other health professional specialist services and agencies.
•  Act as an educator for clients and carers.  Advise on issues of mental health so as to generate a positive approach to health and strengthen the service user’s capacity to manage illness, symptoms and crisis.
• To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
• To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.

Leadership

• • To participate in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust.
  • To actively promote integrated health professional working internally and externally.
  • To facilitate the development of a positive and supportive team culture.
  • To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols, and guidelines.
  • To participate in the audit process, linking in with the clinical governance agenda.
  • To advise, encourage and share knowledge utilising the latest research and practice development, through literature and peer reviews.

• Administration:

• To be computer literate.
• To ensure accurate recording of actions, and updating patient’s records, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
• To take part, and assist, in the planning and administration relating to day to day running of the caseload.

Communication:

• To have a wide range of knowledge in approaches to communicating and managing patient care.
• To be able to effectively communicate with colleagues, peers, senior managers, and clinical leads within the Trust.
• To be able to communicate complex patient related information facilitating positive outcomes and ensuring collaborative working.
• Participate in the review and development of clinical policies and identifies improvements to service provision.

Training

• To act as mentor to students, providing effective education, facilitating their development and promoting high standards of nursing care.
• Ensure students are actively supported to enable them to achieve their learning needs.
• To ensure own continued professional development and support a culture of lifelong learning in self and others.
• To undertake, and assist, in the planning of own mandatory training and workshops.
• To undertake a regular appraisal, developing a personal development plan that includes clinical competencies reflecting the health needs of the local population and relates to Trust strategy.
• To support new staff and their integration within the team.
• To support training as part of the role including changes to professional development and implementation of new policies and guidelines.