Assistant Psychologist

Job overview

Band 6 senior staff Nurse/ Clinical Lead on an in patient Acute female Mental Health Ward

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Main duties of the job

To act as a clinically focused Senior Staff Nurse within Inpatient Wards providing support/advice; linking with Matrons and community specialist nurses and pathways.
 To act in a consultative role for junior staff, supporting the upskilling of staff knowledge and skills.
 To be able to assess people's complex health and well-being needs and put in place safe and effective MDT care and management plans.
 To develop and implement comprehensive nursing care plans including risk management plans and act as a Named Nurse/Keyworker where identified.
 To support the development, implementation and monitoring of standards.
 To support the development and implement effective policies and procedures.
 To support lessons learnt and contribute to the development and implementation of actions.
 To develop robust risk management standards, develop and monitor effective therapeutic risk within the service.
 To support the clinical environment being conductive to learning
 To provide educational material for Staff, service users, family members and other professional groups as required
 To be conversant with and practice within the realms of the 1983 Mental Health Act.
 To engage in clinical supervision both

Working for our organisation

Employees, workers, and / or contractors will be expected to uphold the values of the Trust and exhibit the expected Trust behaviors aligned to the Trust's values. Individuals have a responsibility to ensure that they display the Trust values and behaviors in carrying out their job and that individuals feel able to challenge (or raise a challenge) when other colleagues' behaviors breach the spirit of Trust values

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 To review the effectiveness of the care provided and support action that may be required.
 To provide advice to service users, carers and the wider staff within teams in regards to speciality knowledge.
 Act as Named Nurse where required for ensuring co-ordination of assessing, planning and providing management guidance on interventions for high risk patients and situations.
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Job description – SENIOR STAFF NURSE
 To recognise situations that may be detrimental to the health and well-being of the service users and carers with the aim of providing shared and agreed plan of care for resolving the crisis situation and preventing further crisis situations from occurring.
 Accountable for the provision of health care within their sphere of recognised specialist knowledge.
 To support and supervise staff to enhance the skills, knowledge and expertise of the team in line with current evidence based research, training and modelling in line with their specialist knowledge
 To support auditing service quality
 To be a local link/ward Champion for Divisional and Trust Quality Improvement Projects
 To reduce the stigma associated with mental illness, raise awareness of how to access services that are available in the wider community.
 To support embedding both the national and locally agreed clinical and professional standards within the service.
 To support the maintenance of the agreed outcomes of the service.

Person specification

Essential/ Desirable

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria