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Job summary

Main area
Louth Crisis Home Treatment Team (CRHT)
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
274-10852-AI-B
Employer
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Louth CRHT
Town
Louth
Salary
£28,407 - £34,581 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust logo

Acute Care Nurse

Band 5

Job overview

Band 5 Acute Care Worker: An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified Mental Health Nurse or Social Worker to work within the Louth Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. The team provides a swift response to people who are in an acute phase of mental illness, providing home treatment in order to prevent hospital admission.

To be successful in this role, we want to hear from Practitioners who really want to ‘make a difference’, with the Trust values at the core of patient care, who have previous experience working with acute mental illness, or who are seeking to develop a career within acute care.

You will need to demonstrate a commitment to providing a high-quality standard of care, excellent communication, interpersonal, and assessment skills, and a positive attitude towards change with the ability to contribute to the evolving nature of our service.

You will receive regular supervision in both Management and Clinical. As well as being expected to provide leadership and supervision to other staff and student nurses.

You will be expected to work 12-hour shifts, 9am to 10pm including weekends.

If you would like to be considered for this post, we look forward to hearing from you. Please contact Karen Chapman, Team Co-ordinator  01507 609906 or via email [email protected]

Main duties of the job

Home Treatment

Assessment

Producing Care Plans

Risk Assessments

Crisis Intervention

Triage

Safeguarding

Relapse Prevention

Clinical and Managerial Supervision

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment, and comprehensive discharge planning.
  • To work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service, working 9am to 10pm shifts
  • Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.
  • Plan, implement, review, and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
  • To assess carers’ and family’s needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.
  • To identify & protect people from abuse, neglect and harm working alongside safeguarding.
  • Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.
  • To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within the Crisis Team and with external agencies.
  • To maintain accurate and timely clinical records.
  • To adhere to N.M.C. codes of professional conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
  • To develop clinical practice having due regard to guidelines of the N.S.F. for Older People, N.S.F for Mental Health, N.I.C.E. and N.I.M.H.E.
  • To demonstrate empowering leadership skills within the Crisis Team and seek opportunities in local and national area as to promote and develop the profession.
  • To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including: induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audit.
  • Develop effective and supportive links with other health and social care staff. To create networks that improve the pathway of care for clients referred to the Crisis Team.

 

 

Person specification

Qulifications

Essential criteria
  • RVN or RNLD or RN: 1 st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent. / Allied Health Professional
  • Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilist demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information and barriers to effective communication whilst being considerate of client confidentiality.
  • Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Government principles
  • Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
  • Relevant experience of working with mental health needs
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience working as a registered mental health nurse with people with mental health problems.
  • Personal experience in the delivery of physical care to others

Skills & Competences

Essential criteria
  • Highly motivated and able to engage with service users and carers to improve outcomes.
  • Sound clinical reasoning skills
  • Ability to work independently and collectively.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Sunflower Hidden DisabilitiesTimewise-Flex Positive EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoMenopause Friendly EmployerArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Care quality commission - GoodWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerNHS Rainbow badgeStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.AccessAbleStonewall Gold 2022Dying to Work CharterStep into healthCarer Confident -AccomplishedNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkOne Workforce Lincolnshire ICSPastoral Care Quality Award

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Karen Chapman
Job title
Team Co-ordinator
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01507 609906

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Welton House
Lime Kiln Way
Lincoln
LN2 4WH
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