Job summary
We are looking for an experienced Registered Mental Health Nurse to join The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust.
You must be passionate, dedicated, and innovative to help move this ever-growing service forward whilst adhering to the Walton Way values.
Candidates will need to demonstrate a commitment to providing comprehensive and safe care for people who experience psychiatric symptoms and distress whilst an inpatient in an acute and rehabilitation setting. Excellent assessment, risk management, organisational and communication skills are essential along with experience and a good working knowledge of The Mental Health Act 1983 and The Mental Capacity Act 2005.
You will be part of an experienced and supportive multi-disciplinary team and will receive ongoing support, training and development opportunities and have regular clinical and managerial supervision. This post is a part time post 18.75hrs weekly/2-3 shifts per week.
We welcome applications from Registered Mental Health Nurses with recent assessment/liaison experience who have an interest in working within a Neuroscience centre, supporting patients on our neurology, neurosurgery, pain, spinal, rehabilitation and trauma pathways.
For further information regarding this vacancy or to arrange an informal chat please contact Lindsay Cleary, lindsay.cleary@nhs.net / 0515 556 4023
Main duties of the job
To assess inpatients referred to the Neuropsychiatry
Service in The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust (WCFT) and Cheshire and
Merseyside Rehabilitation Network (CMRN) including spoke units at Broadgreen (Phoenix)
and St Helens (Seddon Suite).
To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team,
ensuring agreed interventions are employed on optimal management of patients
with mental health needs in general neurosurgical/neurology and
rehabilitation units.
To participate in sessions of education and
training of management of mental health and brain injury problems in The
Walton Centre and CMRN.
To contribute to the rehabilitation network
coordinators work by assessing patients with mental health needs prior to
their transfer to rehabilitation units and to advise on gatekeeping.
To support the neuropsychiatry specialist nurse
when advising senior nursing and management staff on a range of areas
including mental capacity, management of challenging behaviour, risk
minimisation and discharge.
To work within the guidelines, policies and
procedures in area of neuropsychiatry and mental health within the
Rehabilitation network and the Walton Centre.
To carry out duties within the service as an
autonomous practitioner.
This position is an 18.5 hours per week, permanent
post, working hours 08.00-16.00 / 12.00-20.00 across 7 days.
About us
The Walton Centre
NHS Foundation Trust is the only NHS trust to hold dual accreditation for the
Investors in People we invest in people and we invest in wellbeing
standards and has been awarded Gold status for both. The
Walton Centre is a leader in the treatment and care of neurology and
neurosurgery, placing the patient and their family at the heart of everything
we do. As the only specialist hospital trust in the UK dedicated to providing
comprehensive neurology, neurosurgery, spinal and pain management services we
are proud to be rated as an Outstanding Trust by the Care Quality Commission
(CQC), and champion change throughout the field of neuroscience. Originally
formed in 1992, the Trust received Foundation Trust status in 2009.
With
around 1,450 staff, The Walton Centre treats more than 127,000 outpatients and
18,000 inpatients each year. We have leading specialists and incredibly
dedicated staff delivering excellent clinical outcomes for brain, spinal and
neurological care nationally and internationally. Teams across our site in
Fazakerley, Liverpool, offer a world-class service in diagnosing and treating
injuries and illnesses affecting the brain, spine and peripheral nerves and
muscles, and in supporting people suffering from a wide range of long-term
neurological conditions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role summary
1. To assess inpatients referred to the Neuropsychiatry
Service in The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust (WCFT) and Cheshire and
Merseyside Rehabilitation Network (CMRN) including spoke units at Broadgreen (Phoenix)
and St Helens (Seddon Suite).
2. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team,
ensuring agreed interventions are employed on optimal management of patients
with mental health needs in general neurosurgical/neurology and
rehabilitation units.
3. To participate in sessions of education and
training of management of mental health and brain injury problems in The
Walton Centre and CMRN.
4. To contribute to the rehabilitation network
coordinators work by assessing patients with mental health needs prior to
their transfer to rehabilitation units and to advise on gatekeeping.
5. To operate in a role that is therapeutic in nature
developing effective relationships with Service Users, in a variety of
inpatient settings.
6. To support the neuropsychiatry specialist nurse
when advising senior nursing and management staff on a range of areas
including mental capacity, management of challenging behaviour, risk
minimisation and discharge.
8. To work within the guidelines, policies and
procedures in area of neuropsychiatry and mental health within the
Rehabilitation network and the Walton Centre.
9. To carry out duties within the service as an
autonomous practitioner.
10. This position is an 18.5 hours per week, permanent
post, working hours 08.00-16.00 / 12.00-20.00 across 7 days.
Key
responsibilities
1. To provide clinical advice, expertise and
leadership within the inpatient Neurological wards, Neurosurgical wards and
Rehabilitation units.
2. To coordinate the care of inpatient service users
with mental health needs, carrying out their assessment, follow up and
liaising with nursing and medical staff and therapists regarding optimal
management.
3. To liaise with family members, carers and
significant others when completing the assessment and developing a plan of
action. To attend family meeting and other reviews as required.
4. To ensure a seamless approach by liaising with
other professionals as required e.g. CRHT, ward based staff, therapists, and
community services.
5. To develop a risk management plan for service
users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of
the team. Ensure that all significant
people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it
appropriately. To monitor and work with Multidisciplinary team members to
ensure that service user risk is managed appropriately and that risk
management plans are of a high quality.
6. To participate in rehabilitation and sometimes
other multi-disciplinary team meetings as required advising the wider therapy
team regarding service user presentation, including physical health care
aspects, and the effectiveness of core strategies of care and contribute to
decision making.
7. To participate in the development of care plans that
enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and
independence to help them to return to the community in their chosen setting.
8. Work with senior ward nurses to ensure that the
safety and security needs of service users and carers, their relatives and
friends, Trust colleagues and persons visiting any care or domestic settings,
are maintained, being mindful of appropriate standards and relevant policies and
procedures, e.g. infection control.
9. To ensure own work is appropriately recorded.
10. To use verbal and non-verbal communication
skills established through training and experience to impart sensitive
information e.g. diagnosis or symptoms to service users and their
families. To offer support to other
staff to do this.
11. To use skills established through training and
experience to communicate with members of neurology, neurosurgical and
rehabilitation network teams in the implementation of change and in the
interest of good, cohesive team working
12. To check understanding of information where
there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress,
physical, cognitive or psychiatric symptoms in service users or where there
is resistance in staff. This may also
be necessary when English is not the first language.
13. To use skills established through training and
experience to give and receive information, adhering to the Caldicott
guidelines, to other individuals with regards to a service users care in
reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the
Trust.
14. To have a knowledge of the Mental Health Act
(1983) and also Mental Capacity Act/ Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. To support service users and their carers
when these acts are being used to detain the service user. To support staff involved in the
application of the acts, ensuring that they are aware of and fulfilling their
duties.
15. To ensure that all relevant information with regards
to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly
into the health record, which in all centres are hand written notes. Supervise and monitor the entries made
through performance management and audit.
16. To act as a mentor to junior staff and
therapists.
17. To use skills gained through training and
experience to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or
verbally aggressive. Use your
judgement, gained from experience, to establish if a service user requires
assessment by a medic or possibly hospital admission.
18. To ensure that all incidents or near misses are
documented as per Trust policy and that any follow-up action is taken.
19. To participate in service user reviews ensuring
that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant
information on which to base their clinical decisions.
20. To react pro-actively in cases of inpatient
service user crisis and put in place immediate plans to resolve the
situation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role summary
1. To assess inpatients referred to the Neuropsychiatry
Service in The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust (WCFT) and Cheshire and
Merseyside Rehabilitation Network (CMRN) including spoke units at Broadgreen (Phoenix)
and St Helens (Seddon Suite).
2. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team,
ensuring agreed interventions are employed on optimal management of patients
with mental health needs in general neurosurgical/neurology and
rehabilitation units.
3. To participate in sessions of education and
training of management of mental health and brain injury problems in The
Walton Centre and CMRN.
4. To contribute to the rehabilitation network
coordinators work by assessing patients with mental health needs prior to
their transfer to rehabilitation units and to advise on gatekeeping.
5. To operate in a role that is therapeutic in nature
developing effective relationships with Service Users, in a variety of
inpatient settings.
6. To support the neuropsychiatry specialist nurse
when advising senior nursing and management staff on a range of areas
including mental capacity, management of challenging behaviour, risk
minimisation and discharge.
8. To work within the guidelines, policies and
procedures in area of neuropsychiatry and mental health within the
Rehabilitation network and the Walton Centre.
9. To carry out duties within the service as an
autonomous practitioner.
10. This position is an 18.5 hours per week, permanent
post, working hours 08.00-16.00 / 12.00-20.00 across 7 days.
Key
responsibilities
1. To provide clinical advice, expertise and
leadership within the inpatient Neurological wards, Neurosurgical wards and
Rehabilitation units.
2. To coordinate the care of inpatient service users
with mental health needs, carrying out their assessment, follow up and
liaising with nursing and medical staff and therapists regarding optimal
management.
3. To liaise with family members, carers and
significant others when completing the assessment and developing a plan of
action. To attend family meeting and other reviews as required.
4. To ensure a seamless approach by liaising with
other professionals as required e.g. CRHT, ward based staff, therapists, and
community services.
5. To develop a risk management plan for service
users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of
the team. Ensure that all significant
people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it
appropriately. To monitor and work with Multidisciplinary team members to
ensure that service user risk is managed appropriately and that risk
management plans are of a high quality.
6. To participate in rehabilitation and sometimes
other multi-disciplinary team meetings as required advising the wider therapy
team regarding service user presentation, including physical health care
aspects, and the effectiveness of core strategies of care and contribute to
decision making.
7. To participate in the development of care plans that
enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and
independence to help them to return to the community in their chosen setting.
8. Work with senior ward nurses to ensure that the
safety and security needs of service users and carers, their relatives and
friends, Trust colleagues and persons visiting any care or domestic settings,
are maintained, being mindful of appropriate standards and relevant policies and
procedures, e.g. infection control.
9. To ensure own work is appropriately recorded.
10. To use verbal and non-verbal communication
skills established through training and experience to impart sensitive
information e.g. diagnosis or symptoms to service users and their
families. To offer support to other
staff to do this.
11. To use skills established through training and
experience to communicate with members of neurology, neurosurgical and
rehabilitation network teams in the implementation of change and in the
interest of good, cohesive team working
12. To check understanding of information where
there are often barriers to effective communications due to distress,
physical, cognitive or psychiatric symptoms in service users or where there
is resistance in staff. This may also
be necessary when English is not the first language.
13. To use skills established through training and
experience to give and receive information, adhering to the Caldicott
guidelines, to other individuals with regards to a service users care in
reviews and multi-disciplinary meetings. These individuals may be external to the
Trust.
14. To have a knowledge of the Mental Health Act
(1983) and also Mental Capacity Act/ Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. To support service users and their carers
when these acts are being used to detain the service user. To support staff involved in the
application of the acts, ensuring that they are aware of and fulfilling their
duties.
15. To ensure that all relevant information with regards
to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly
into the health record, which in all centres are hand written notes. Supervise and monitor the entries made
through performance management and audit.
16. To act as a mentor to junior staff and
therapists.
17. To use skills gained through training and
experience to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or
verbally aggressive. Use your
judgement, gained from experience, to establish if a service user requires
assessment by a medic or possibly hospital admission.
18. To ensure that all incidents or near misses are
documented as per Trust policy and that any follow-up action is taken.
19. To participate in service user reviews ensuring
that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant
information on which to base their clinical decisions.
20. To react pro-actively in cases of inpatient
service user crisis and put in place immediate plans to resolve the
situation.
Person Specification
Other
Essential
- Ongoing post-registration development.
- Able to demonstrate flexibility in working hours.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience in mental health.
- Evidence of leadership and management skills.
- Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads
- Evidence of supervising staff.
- Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies.
- Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers.
- Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance.
- Experience in change management and policy formulation.
- Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. DATIX
- Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews
- Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings.
- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non -verbally.
- Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services
- Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
- Leadership Skills
- Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines.
- Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation.
- Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation.
- Demonstrate knowledge of CPA ECC guidelines.
- Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staffs responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base.
- Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills and leadership skills.
- Excellent oral and written skills
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
- The ability to lead
- Ability to contribute to developing care excellence within the area.
Desirable
- Knowledge or desire to gain experience within Neurology, Neurosurgery, Rehabilitation, Spinal injury and Trauma.
Qualifications
Essential
- Mental health nurse professional qualification or experience at Degree Level or equivalent.
Desirable
- Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development.
Person Specification
Other
Essential
- Ongoing post-registration development.
- Able to demonstrate flexibility in working hours.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience in mental health.
- Evidence of leadership and management skills.
- Evidence of experience of managing cases & case loads
- Evidence of supervising staff.
- Ability to work autonomously across the organisation/boundaries and with other agencies.
- Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and service users and carers.
- Experience of audit/research and working knowledge of clinical governance.
- Experience in change management and policy formulation.
- Experience of using Incident Reporting Systems e.g. DATIX
- Experience of undertaking and involvement in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews
- Evidence of experience of working with a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings.
- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non -verbally.
- Being responsive and flexible, seeing change as an opportunity to improve services
- Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit
- Leadership Skills
- Ability to work within a divisional management team, be able to generate own workload and ability to work to strict deadlines.
- Ability to build purposeful relationships with a range of both internal and external to the organisation.
- Proven knowledge of relevant mental health legislation.
- Demonstrate knowledge of CPA ECC guidelines.
- Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to junior staff Demonstrate a good knowledge of professional Codes of Conduct and Staffs responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base.
- Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills and leadership skills.
- Excellent oral and written skills
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
- The ability to lead
- Ability to contribute to developing care excellence within the area.
Desirable
- Knowledge or desire to gain experience within Neurology, Neurosurgery, Rehabilitation, Spinal injury and Trauma.
Qualifications
Essential
- Mental health nurse professional qualification or experience at Degree Level or equivalent.
Desirable
- Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
