Inpatient Staff Nurse (Abbey) in Gloucester

We are an acute mental health hospital in the centre of Gloucester providing inpatient services for the county of Gloucestershire. Service users are supported by a variety of healthcare workers including nurses, doctors and allied health professionals such as psychologists, art therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and sports exercise therapists. We have four wards in the main building as well as a nurse-led Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Low Secure Unit (LSU) in the grounds. Everyone in the hospital is committed to making the admission and stay with us as pleasant as possible, and all staff work closely with both the regional Crisis and Home Treatment Teams (CHTT) and Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT) to ensure seamless services are provided.

Clinical Responsibilities:

• Work according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct and relevant professional guidelines as a named nurse or key worker taking responsibility for the assessment of care and health education needs.
• Develop, implement and evaluate care plans in conjunction with service users, carers and other professionals ensuring individual needs are met.
• As named nurse, undertake mental and behavioural state examinations for own service users and service users being admitted, repeated on at least a weekly basis, and clinical risk assessment and management plans.
• Assist service users to meet their personal care needs e.g. assisting with bathing and washing, as outlined in the Care Plan.
• Liaise with and offer specialist assessment and advice to other agencies and professions, including participating in Multi-Agency meetings to facilitate the ongoing treatment and care of service users and to ensure adherence to National Service Framework (NSF) guidelines.

We welcome applications from newly qualified nurses. The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification. We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Maintain accurate written records and statistics to ensure that service user details and details of the care given are recorded in notes and on the Trust database(s) in line with Trust policies.
• Contribute to the preparation of appropriate reports, including reports for Mental Health Act Tribunals and Mental Health Managers review meetings as required by rule 6 (1) of the Mental Health Tribunal rules.
• Provide and receive complex and sensitive information from service users, carers or other professionals and agencies on a daily basis.
• Work with and support other members of the Multi-disciplinary team, using clinical judgements in the absence of key members of the team, including medical staff.
• Ensure that psychological intervention or treatment is offered to service users as outlined in the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines.
• De-escalation of aggression using verbal skills and physical breakaway skills.

Leadership / Management:

• Support existing team members in the provision of appraisal and supervision of other team members including induction of junior staff members and assessment of work based studies such as a National Vocational Qualification (NVQ).
• Support existing team members in the planning and delivery of teaching sessions to members of the multidisciplinary team and outside agencies including professions from primary care in order to implement mandatory training or to pass on specialist knowledge and skills.
• Contribute to service development and quality initiatives in line with local and national policies using audit and policy development.
• Undertake other duties appropriate to the post as requested by senior managers.
• Ensure that through competent planning and organisational skills, sufficient time is allocated to provide and receive ongoing clinical and managerial supervision, focusing on improving quality of care and audit in line with the Government Modernisation Programme.
• Provide mentorship and preceptorship to junior nurses, nurses in training and other members of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring training objectives are met.
• Implement risk assessments and management plans on a daily basis working with people with common, severe, and enduring mental health problems who are frequently distressed and emotionally disturbed.
• Take charge of the ward in the absence of senior staff for clinical, environmental and managerial aspects.
• Shift Co-ordination including allocation of resources, deployment of staff, upholding the requirements of the Mental Health Act, maintaining a safe environment, liaising with other disciplines, service users and carers.
• At nights and weekends undertaking additional responsibilities for hospital wide issues of bed management, staff deployment, fire coordination etc.

We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners. In addition to the programme, we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module Preceptorship for Healthcare (AP7026). Newly qualified Social Workers are offered the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment programme (ASYE) which is similar to a preceptorship programme.