Job summary
Are you passionate about mental health care? Are you caring, compassionate, honest and someone to be relied upon.
Are you looking to make a difference to people's lives? Do you have a passion and energy to truly make a difference, acting with kindness, respect and fairness at all times?
If so Maple Lodge is the place for you.
We support people recover to their optimum following a period of mental ill health, we support individuals to improve their quality of life. We work with people to manage their long-term mental health conditions to enable them to live well in their communities.
Currently our service is undergoing a program of transformation, working closely with our colleagues within community rehabilitation services, re-enablement, and high dependency rehabilitation services, forensic services, and our acute care colleagues to offer the least restrictive interventions.
The successful applicant will ideally have two years post registration experience and a particular interest and passion of working with adult service users who have a mental health diagnosis.
You will work in conjunction with other team members, role modelling high quality care, leadership skills, lead on quality improvements.
This is a full-time position with a hybrid of management days as well as allocation of clinical facing shifts across 7-day provision 356 days a year.
It is essential that the successful candidate can work flexible shifts patterns that include nights, weekends and bank holidays
Main duties of the job
Our aim is to enable our service users to reach their optimum functioning to enable them to live well within their community, engaging with key professionals, working part of a multi-disciplinary member of the team as well as supporting service users and their carers.
The successful applicant in addition to care navigation will be responsible for shift coordination, delegating and allocating tasks throughout the working day to other team members.
Good organisational skills and IT skills are essential.
You will need to demonstrate a commitment to providing a high quality standard of care, excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a positive attitude towards change and an ability to contribute to the evolving nature of the service.
You will receive regular supervision both management and clinical. There is an expectation that as a registered member of staff that both management and clinical supervision will be delivered to unregistered staff.
There are training opportunities available to support growth in the role. You will be expected to work shifts including weekends, nights and bank holidays over a 7 day period.
In return we will offer the opportunity to be part of an excellent and developing team that holds the highest possible values and work ethic within a purpose-built environment. Everybody is valued, we act with pride, compassion, and work together for service improvements which have positive impacts upon our patients and their pathway of care.
About us
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 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, 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. 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 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.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
Provide therapeutic interpersonal skills when engaging with a client.
Perform nursing assessments of a clients personal needs using relevant skills and assessment tools.
Implement a range of clinical skills in the assessment client risk.
Construct client care plans and risk management plans based on their assessed needs.
Perform nursing interventions advocated within the clients care plan.
Recognise the contribution of others in the provision of client care.
Involve clients and/or carers in the care panning and care delivery in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs.
Maintain the welfare and safety of clients and protect them from any form of abuse in accordance with safeguarding guidance.
Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered and revise care plans as appropriate.
Demonstrate a knowledge of information governance and the need to protect patient confidential information.
Make and maintain accurate records of nursing care in accordance with Professional (NMC) guidance and Trust policy.
Demonstrate problem solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues.
Participate in regular clinical supervision.
Identify nursing skills which are transferable between client groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
Provide therapeutic interpersonal skills when engaging with a client.
Perform nursing assessments of a clients personal needs using relevant skills and assessment tools.
Implement a range of clinical skills in the assessment client risk.
Construct client care plans and risk management plans based on their assessed needs.
Perform nursing interventions advocated within the clients care plan.
Recognise the contribution of others in the provision of client care.
Involve clients and/or carers in the care panning and care delivery in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs.
Maintain the welfare and safety of clients and protect them from any form of abuse in accordance with safeguarding guidance.
Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered and revise care plans as appropriate.
Demonstrate a knowledge of information governance and the need to protect patient confidential information.
Make and maintain accurate records of nursing care in accordance with Professional (NMC) guidance and Trust policy.
Demonstrate problem solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues.
Participate in regular clinical supervision.
Identify nursing skills which are transferable between client groups.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN or RNLD 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information and barriers to effective communication whilst being considerate of client confidentiality
- Relevant experience of working with mental health needs
- Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Government principles.
Desirable
- 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
- Sound clinical reasoning skills.
- Highly motivated and able to engage with service users and carers to improve outcomes
- Ability to work independently and collectively
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RMN or RNLD 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information and barriers to effective communication whilst being considerate of client confidentiality
- Relevant experience of working with mental health needs
- Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Government principles.
Desirable
- 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
- Sound clinical reasoning skills.
- Highly motivated and able to engage with service users and carers to improve outcomes
- Ability to work independently and collectively
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
