Physical Health and Medicines Management Nurse

Job description

Job responsibilities

To demonstrate high-level communication skills, providing and receiving complex, sensitive information relating to care plans, support pathways and physical health interventions

To utilise highly developed interpersonal skills including specific skills to facilitate effective communication when there are barriers to understanding e.g. sensory or cognitive impairment or in a hostile, antagonistic or highly emotive situation.

To establish and maintain robust communication networks with clients, carers, and other health care workers and numerous external agencies.

To establish and maintain good working relationships with GPs, GP commissioners and relevant consortia.

To promote awareness of the role of CMHT within local service area/team, GP practices and the wider community.

To communicate effectively with the wider the CMHT and escalate concerns where necessary.

Be proficient in completing accurate clinical records and clinical letters.

Be able to provide physical health information in manner that is understandable to patients with complex needs.

Be a full member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).

Effectively manage busy depot and physical health clinics across the North CMHT geographical footprint.

Be able to plan and deliver home administration of medication and physical health assessments.

Undertake a full physical health assessment which includes the suite of physical observations, phlebotomy and ECGs.

Be competent in screening haematological and biochemistry bloods and be able to promptly escalate concerns to the appropriate clinician.

Undertake formal mental health reviews and complete a full mental state examination where needed.

Be able to administer standardised tools on the assessment of psychotropic medications such as the LUNASRS and GASS.

Assess, care-plan, provide interventions and evaluate and record community mental health and social care delivered to clients.

To promote engagement of our service users in national health promotion strategies such as cancer screening, optician services and dental reviews.

To promote positive mental health and physical care to clients in all situations.

To encourage and support clients to collaborate in their treatment programme and recovery.

To encourage self-help as much as possible, promoting the maintenance of skills and independence in clients.

To support health promotion and act in a consultative role/advisor to other community services/agencies and personnel in relation to individual clients and their mental health issues.

To take the clinical lead for the service within your area of specialism and provide advice, guidance and support to colleagues and other professionals.

To undertake and record comprehensive risk assessments where needed, devise and implement risk management plans for clients at risk of vulnerability, self harm or risk of physical, sexual or emotional harm to others, using the STAR V 2 Risk Assessment Tool.

To engage carers in the promotion of physical health and medication concordance where appropriate.

To take a lead role in service developments within your area of specialism

Ensure that service users and carers receive clear and accurate information on:

How to access the service around the clock

Confidentiality

Access to Records

Their own Assessments and Care Plans

Mental Health conditions and medication

Service Publicity, including what they can expect from the service

Community Resources

Complaints and compliments procedures

How to access Advocacy Services

Promote a service philosophy based on a balanced model of care, recovery and personalisation.

Support the regular audit of standards that pertain to medication management and physical health and support in the improvements of these standards.

Establish quality standards relating to the service user and carer experience.

Maintain quality assurance systems to monitor and audit these standards.

To participate in complaint investigations when required.

To participate in Serious Untoward Incident Reviews when required.

Participate in service governance initiatives.

To ensure that all Quality Standards are maintained.

Contribute to the writing of shared guidelines/protocols of care.

Please see attached job description and person specification

Staff benefits

• Pay Enhancements:

Band

Saturday (midnight to midnight) and any week day after 8pm and before 6am

All time on Sundays and Public Holidays (midnight to midnight)

1

Time plus 47%

Time plus 94%

2

Time plus 41%

Time plus 83%

3

Time plus 35%

Time plus 69%

4 9

Time plus 30%

Time plus 60%

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years
• Excellent pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary sacrifice car scheme
• Wellbeing programme
• Blue Light Card Discounts
• fuelGenie Fuel Cards (for applicable roles)

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse via the NMC
• Qualified to degree level in Mental Health Nursing
• Willingness to participate in own continuing professional development within this specialist field

Desirable

• Additional training on blood and ECG interpretation.
• Additional training on health promotion.
• Additional training on common physical health disorders such as diabetes
• Trained smoking cessation advisor.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of managing depot clinics.
• Experience of delivering a full physical health assessment.
• Experience of working independently and managing and prioritising own workload
• Ability to establish good working relationships with a range of providers including GP's.
• Ability to participate in Clinical Supervision, both as Supervisee and Supervisor
• Involvement in Service development.

Desirable

• Experience of working in dedicated physical health or medicines management roles.

Knowledge

Essential

• Good Knowledge of normal physical health parameters.
• Good Knowledge of a range of interventions to promote physical health for those suffering with mental health problems.
• Good knowledge of the medications used in depot and long-acting injection form along with a good knowledge of the common side effects.
• Good Knowledge and application of Risk Management.
• Good Knowledge of Safeguarding Procedures
• Understanding of current national policy and initiatives in relation to enduring mental health issues and substance misuse.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Greater Manchester Mental Health NHSFT

Address

Central Park Hub

Unit B, Northampton Road

Manchester

M40 5BP

Employer's website

https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)