Senior Acute Care Nurse

Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Senior Mental Health Nurse to work in our Older Adult Functional Home Treatment Team. The team provides a swift response to people who are in the acute phase of mental illness, providing home treatment in order to prevent hospitalisation.

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. The post holder must be a driver.

The post holder provides a high standard of clinical care, ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive collaborative care planning and discharge planning, using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools. This includes risk assessment, management and reduction. Implementation of evidence-based care for our older adult service users and their carers. The post holder will provide professional advice and support to other agencies and members of the multidisciplinary team. The post holder will also have the responsibility of supervising B5 RNs and/or B3 HCAs.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a high standard of clinical care, ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
• To ensure care is accessible and reasonable adjustments are considered to meet the needs of individuals accessing the service.
• To monitor medication as required.
• To assess physical healthcare needs to ensure equity of physical needs and treat or signpost accordingly.
• To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients' care, where appropriate.
• To manage caseload and service delivery in accordance with and in order to contribute towards the attainment of service/trust productivity requirements.
• To assess carers' and families' needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.
• Safeguard people from abuse, neglect and harm, engaging fully with safeguarding processes and working with system partners as appropriate.
• To deliver interventions to enable patients to develop and/or maintain skills to live well in their community.
• To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to co-ordinate and monitor those of the team.
• Participate in the screening of referral and onwards signposting as appropriate.
• Ensure the clinical caseload and clinical practice of team members are of the highest standard of clinical care
• Undertake supervision with B3's

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 2,800 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.

Job responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification document for complete details regarding this post

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you, which include:

• All our employees have access to Employee Assistance Programme a free online 24/7, 365 days a year confidential counselling and wellbeing support which is open to family as well as staff members.
• Active staff networks
• Competitive annual leave entitlement
• Car leasing schemes
• NHS pension scheme
• Free eye tests
• Money-saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person Specification
Special Requirements
Essential

• Ability to travel independently across the county

Qualifications
Essential

• Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice. Registered with a professional body e.g. NMC, UKCP, HCPC, BACP
• Recognised Professional Qualification in Registered Nursing (RMN,RLDN), Social Worker (CQSW, DipSW), Occupational Therapy RVN or RNLD or RN: 1 st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
• ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent
• Mentorship Module (degree level)
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.

Desirable

• Management training

Experience
Essential

• Relevant experience of working with adults with mental health needs. Or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills thay are transferable to both community/in-patient.
• Experience of working with people with severe and enduring mental illnesses
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Skills
Essential

• Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
• Highly developed communication skills.
• Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for service users care, where appropriate.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
• Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes.
• Ability to work independently and collectively.

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).