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Lead Nurse for Mental Health

3 months ago


Enfield, United Kingdom North Middlesex University Hospital Full time

Job overview

This post will be the Trust lead for Mental Health and will complement the work undertaken by Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust liaison team. The role will primarily cover adult patients however may be required to liaise with and support children’s teams where there are children and young people presenting with mental health issues.
The key purpose of the role:

Be responsible for high quality and cost effective enhanced care provision to patients with mental health needs, ensuring that there are adequate policy and governance frameworks, and implementing training and support packages for staff providing enhanced care. The post holder will be the Lead Nurse for Mental Health ensuring that the Trust meets its national and local requirements and responsibilities in supporting people mental health concerns. The post holder will have extensive specialist knowledge of Mental Health legislation including the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act, to provide advice to staff, patients, families and partners. The post holder will provide a crucial link between staff in all hospital services, the Mental Health liaison teams and community mental health teams. A key element of this post will be to contribute to the delivery of Mental Health, Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and reducing restrictive practices training programs.

Main duties of the job

Provide specialist advice and guidance to staff in managing patients with mental illnesses. Available to provide specialist advice in relation to Mental Health, Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Act as key person in accepting section papers for patients at North Middlesex Hospital alongside the Head of Clinical Site.  Ensure that any detained patient under the Mental Health Act has their rights read to them and documented on the section 132 form. Be familiar with relevant legislation, e.g. Mental Capacity Act (2005), Equality Act (2010), Care Act (2014), Mental Health Act and able to support staff in decision making using these Acts. Development of relevant policies under their responsibility. Work within situations of risk and advise on mental health, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Role in supporting violence and aggression. Ensure confidential and often complex information is imparted sensitively and accurately to medical staff, patients, relatives and partner agencies. Have highly specialised knowledge and experience within this area, ensure this is shared with staff in order to support their development alongside the safe care of patients. Facilitate relevant aspects of the Care Quality Commission inspections when required.

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Act as Lead Nurse for Mental health in the acute trust, working closely with psychiatric liaison and the mental health trust. Follow escalation protocols in relation to mental health delays and advice senior management on appropriate actions. Act as a single point of contact for the police in any cases where they are involved. Review and recommend changes to policies and practice to lead to improvements in service and patient care. Be an active member of the Trust’s Safeguarding Committee, and associated NHSE and CCG working groups/ forums as directed. Provide reports to these groups as requested in a timely manner if required
Last reviewed: Assist in Serious Incident Reviews in relation to patients with Mental Health and/or mental capacity issues. Represent the Trust at external meetings with police, social care and partner providers.
Clinical Leadership Support and direct staff in making Deprivation of Liberty referrals to Local Authorities which are compliant with local guidelines, demonstrate a good understanding of legal processes for adults at risk and are made in a timely manner. Lead and assist in reducing delays for patients awaiting mental health beds whilst in our Emergency Departments. Act as a support to staff and patients/ careers, and liaise with ward management teams and medical leads to ensure that any issues relating to mental health, mental capacity and deprivation of liberty safeguards are communicated and managed in a timely and effective manner. Ability to develop trust of patients and their carers in order to develop patient cantered plans of care working towards agreed outcomes. Provide leadership, sharing knowledge and information to support colleagues in managing care of any patient at risk. Provide leadership in the care management of patients by appropriate sharing of information about patients at risk across the organisation with relevant multidisciplinary team members. Ensure effective communication with patients (in whatever format they require), relatives/carers, Trust staff and external agencies both verbal and written. This information will at times be highly complex and sensitive. Provide reassurance to patients, families, Trust & external partners. Ensure visibility in clinical areas and act as a resource to empower staff, service users, patients and carers to access appropriate services, working clinically on a regular basis. Support the audit of records to measure and evaluate care planning. Undertake and support staff to undertake Serious Incident investigations through rigorous review of patient records, to support internal and external case reviews.  Support and advise clinical staff in the assessment of Patients Capacity as defined under the Mental Capacity Act.

Person specification

Mental Health proffesional

Essential criteria

Experience working in mental health Experience using mental health and mental capacity act

Desirable criteria

Experience working in mental health in an acute setting

Clinical leadership

Essential criteria

Lead the Mental Health service across the acute trust Available to provide specialist advice and guidance to staff in managing patients with mental illnesses. Ensure that staff and patient support and advice is readily available regarding Mental Health and MCA/ DoLS.

Training and Developtmnet

Essential criteria

Share specialist knowledge and practice about Mental Health and MCA/DoLS in all aspects of the patient care pathway. Lead on behalf of the Organisation on the training and implementation Mental Health and DoLS, ensuring there is sufficient support and training for staff. Undertake regular qualitative and quantitative analysis and interpretation of cases, themes, and figures to enable service development and learning across the Trust.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

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