Job overview

We have a unique new opportunity for you to join a team of nurses and healthcare support workers whose role is to support the provision of Enhanced Care within the Trust .

Are you a registered nurse or registered mental health nurse with a passion for providing dedicated, person-centred care? We have an opportunity for you to be part of an innovative project aimed at enhancing care for individuals with additional needs. 

Secondment opportunities are also available.

We’re looking for a team of compassionate and adaptable nurses who thrive in a more focused care environment, working with a small number of patients or providing 1:1 support. 

The team will work with teenagers, young adults, individuals with learning disabilities or autism, as well as older adults with dementia or delirium. They will help to improve the experience for our patients. 

If you are patient, resourceful, and dedicated to making a difference in the lives of vulnerable individuals, we’d love to hear from you.

Please note: Interviews will be held on 1st May

Main duties of the job

The patients are likely to be recent admissions, both young people and adults, where clinical staff have not fully decided what the cause of the patient’s problems are, where the patient has known additional needs, but their own carers are unavailable or where the patient is disturbing others overnight.

Typically, your role will:

• Provide a specialist enhanced care nursing service to inpatients, who have an enhanced level of mental and psychological health need during their stay.
• Communicates with the Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT) and Admiral Nurse on a daily basis to develop management plans and maintain safety, comfort and support for the service users who have an enhanced care need.
• Provides specialist support and guidance, including risk assessments to improve the quality of life for people with an enhanced care need whilst they are in hospital
• Acts as a specialist resource to ensure Mental Health Act (MHA), mental capacity Act (MCA) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) legislation is adhered to
• Coordinates the daily allocation of Enhanced Care staff, taking into account all requests and completed risk assessments
• Undertakes specialist assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care in an in-patient setting for service users with cognitive impairment or mental illness
• Supervises, teaches and assesses all members of the multi-disciplinary team, including students

Working for our organisation

You will be working in a completely new team. The concept is that as the shift leader you will allocate Enhanced Care HCSWs to patients who meet the Enhanced Care criteria for additional staff availability. 

We are keen to improve patient experience, as we want patients to rest and recover from their illness or injury, not leave hospital more tired than when they arrived. The vision is that this team will work to structure a patient’s day to ensure that they get sufficient rest between care episodes and that their overnight sleep is maximised.

Because it can be both immensely rewarding and emotionally draining to look after patients with additional needs, you will ensure the team have access to regular clinical supervision.

Everyone will be new to the team so there is considerable scope to be creative and innovative to improve the experience of the patients the team are caring for and for the other patients on each ward, who are not able to sleep because one patient in their bay is agitated.