Job summary
The post holder will work within the Trust's Psychiatric Decision Unit known as Lotus Assessment Suite. As a staff nurse, you will work within an award-winning, nurse-led service to provide interim mental health care for service users. The role involves undertaking prolonged bio-psychosocial assessments to be able to meet the holistic needs of all service users and empower them to have the optimum level of responsibility for their individual care and treatment by following recovery principles and approaches.
The post will enhance your skills in autonomous clinical decision making, assessment of mental health and physical health needs, risk management, crisis management, development of managerial skills as well as joint working with multiple agencies/services. The post will also allow you to develop skills in providing a broad range of specialist psychosocial treatments for individual patients.
Service specific training and support will be provided to successful candidates as well as access to trust wide training opportunities.
Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. For this role, we offer career pathways to roles within the acute and urgent care service line.
Main duties of the job
As a staff nurse you will conduct assessments, support discharges and support junior staff with decision-making. You will support and promote the fundamentals of mental health and physical health care for our patients, by carrying out needs assessments and working collaboratively with patients to develop crisis and discharge plans.
If you are a forward-thinking nurse looking to develop your assessment and risk management skills this is an exciting opportunity to consider. We are looking for someone who is clinically competent with the appropriate skills to join a diverse and experienced team. The successful candidate will be able to develop a positive team atmosphere through hard work, calmness, tolerance and consistency. They will support and lead on quality improvement initiatives and support a culture of reflection and learning. If you want to be part of a pioneering award winning service this is an opportunity not to be missed.
Agile and flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work a 24/7 shift pattern, Monday to Sunday, and we will aim to give you the very best of good work life balance. Please note this role is not able to be carried out from home.
About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Conduct robust gatekeeping 2 assessments making clear decisions, based on an analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options. This will include those related to the admission and discharge of patients (when working with out of hours service providers such as home treatment teams, bed management and/or on-call SpR and AMPHs can be utilised to provide support). The nurses autonomy will increase as they progress through the competency process.
- Through a collaborative approach involve clients in crisis and discharge planning
- Facilitate clients developing coping skills for relapse prevention
- Liaise with other individuals and services in the interest of collaborative crisis and discharge planning for patients, i.e. social services, community teams, carers/families, drug and alcohol teams.
- Promote engagement with carer and families as appropriate using a pragmatic framework.
- Utilise a wide variety of clinical skills appropriate to the needs of individual patients and the clinical setting in which they are required to be seen.
- Ensure discharge from Lotus is clinically sound and timely, with the support of senior nurses and the MDT.
- Have an ability to engage challenging and/or acutely distressed patients in potentially hostile and/or antagonistic situations.
- Provide a broad range of specialist psychosocial treatments for individual patients
- Work with colleagues to develop and promote the services philosophy, framework of care delivery and strategic objectives.
- Deliver care that is evidence based, reflecting current best practice and research.
- Participate in structured clinical supervision in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
- Demonstrate sound understanding of the legal and ethical issues in caring for the mentally ill. In particular, demonstrating sound understanding of the Mental Health Act /Mental Capacity Act and its use in a non-mental health inpatient setting.
- Promote recovery and social inclusion throughout the patient journey.
- Help the client identify strengths to achieve goals and aspirations.
- Contribute to a comprehensive risk assessments in accordance with the Trust Policies and Guidelines.
- Raise safeguarding alerts if you suspect that a service user and/or carer has been exposed to harm or abuse.
- Demonstrate the ability to receive and give complex clinical details clearly using SBAR, with patients, carers and colleagues.
- Communicate clear decisions and rationale when agreement cannot be reached e.g. in situations where the Mental Health Act or Mental Capacity Act or Common Law may be needed to be used.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Conduct robust gatekeeping 2 assessments making clear decisions, based on an analysis of complex presenting problems and judgement about available options. This will include those related to the admission and discharge of patients (when working with out of hours service providers such as home treatment teams, bed management and/or on-call SpR and AMPHs can be utilised to provide support). The nurses autonomy will increase as they progress through the competency process.
- Through a collaborative approach involve clients in crisis and discharge planning
- Facilitate clients developing coping skills for relapse prevention
- Liaise with other individuals and services in the interest of collaborative crisis and discharge planning for patients, i.e. social services, community teams, carers/families, drug and alcohol teams.
- Promote engagement with carer and families as appropriate using a pragmatic framework.
- Utilise a wide variety of clinical skills appropriate to the needs of individual patients and the clinical setting in which they are required to be seen.
- Ensure discharge from Lotus is clinically sound and timely, with the support of senior nurses and the MDT.
- Have an ability to engage challenging and/or acutely distressed patients in potentially hostile and/or antagonistic situations.
- Provide a broad range of specialist psychosocial treatments for individual patients
- Work with colleagues to develop and promote the services philosophy, framework of care delivery and strategic objectives.
- Deliver care that is evidence based, reflecting current best practice and research.
- Participate in structured clinical supervision in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
- Demonstrate sound understanding of the legal and ethical issues in caring for the mentally ill. In particular, demonstrating sound understanding of the Mental Health Act /Mental Capacity Act and its use in a non-mental health inpatient setting.
- Promote recovery and social inclusion throughout the patient journey.
- Help the client identify strengths to achieve goals and aspirations.
- Contribute to a comprehensive risk assessments in accordance with the Trust Policies and Guidelines.
- Raise safeguarding alerts if you suspect that a service user and/or carer has been exposed to harm or abuse.
- Demonstrate the ability to receive and give complex clinical details clearly using SBAR, with patients, carers and colleagues.
- Communicate clear decisions and rationale when agreement cannot be reached e.g. in situations where the Mental Health Act or Mental Capacity Act or Common Law may be needed to be used.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Registered Adult Nurse and/or Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse
Desirable
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice.
- Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation
Desirable
- Experience of shift co-ordination.
- Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Registered Adult Nurse and/or Registered Mental Health Nurse and/or Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse
Desirable
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of research-based/reflective practice, e.g. understanding and ability to use supervision to reflect on skills, attitude and knowledge and develop these by using evidence based practice.
- Knowledge of relevant Professional and Clinical legislation
Desirable
- Experience of shift co-ordination.
- Experience of supervising and mentoring junior staff and students.
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.
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).
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.
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).
