We are seeking to recruit two motivated individuals with excellent people skills and with specific interest in rehabilitation, recovery and promoting independence to support our client group to live a meaningful life in the community.
Westway’s rehabilitation teamwork with individuals to turn the corner in their recovery with a focus on reablement, confidence building and re-finding or developing skills that will support rehabilitation. You will work closely with service users, their families/carers and multi-disciplinary team to provide a holistic approach to mental health recovery.
Using a recovery approach, we help people to maintain their health, moving them towards greater autonomy, to manage their illness and maintain independence in the community. Our team work closely with families and carers using a behavioural family therapy approach, supporting them to cope and facilitate the building of positive relationships.
An experienced RMN/RNLD who is enthusiastic about working with people with complex mental illness and who can demonstrate a real commitment to providing high quality and compassionate care.
To that end, you will be a key individual to lead the shifts on a day-to-day basis, ensuring service users’ needs are met, medical concern and psychosocial stressors are identified and handed over to the MDT. We look forward to hearing from interested candidates.
The post holder will assess needs, plan, implement and monitor care in collaboration with the service user, carers, and the multi-disciplinary team.
To administer medication in accordance with NMC administration of medicine.
To actively encourage service users to work towards self-determination, rehabilitation, recovery and promoting independence to support our client group to live a meaningful life upon discharge into the community.
To work as a primary nurse to oversee care delivery to a group of service users.
To provide leadership and supervision to care support workers, students, and nursing associates.
To analyse, respond to and lead junior staff through complex and challenging clinical situations.
To maintain a high standard of written communication, recording appropriate events and observations in accordance with Trust policies and the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
To undertake shift co-ordination, and take responsibility for care delivery in a specific area for spans of duty, including maintaining a safe clinical environment.
To contribute to the provision of a safe clinical environment which promotes the dignity of service users.
To participate in service evaluations, benchmarking, research, and audit activities, and to contribute to implementation of service development.
To account for one’s own professional practice in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
Working for your organisation
We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close-knit team at SLaM. It’s important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer.

OTHER BENEFITS INCLUDE:

Counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme.
Season ticket loan.
Childcare vouchers

Staff restaurants

• Working as autonomous practitioners and taking responsibility for the care they give to the service users, but within their limits of competency and confidence.
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• Acting as an advocate for the service users in the multi-disciplinary team and overseeing work of others to ensure that they are also responding to the needs of service users and providing clinically effective care.

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• Providing skilled, evidence-based nursing care, which adheres to the policies and procedures.

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• Working with the services users, families, and carers in all stages of the service users stay on the ward, from assessing the risk and needs and care planning process.

• Contributing to creating and maintaining high-performing teams by
• a. communicating well with all members of the team.
• B. reflecting on their practice regularly and encouraging the whole team to reflect in handovers and teams’ meetings.
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• Providing leadership and supervision to support workers, students, and nursing associates.

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• Actively encouraging service users to work towards self-determination, rehabilitation, recovery and promoting independence to support our client group to live a meaningful life upon discharge into the community

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• Participating in service evaluations, benchmarking, research, and audit activities, and to contribute to implementation of service development and improvement projects.

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• Providing leadership and supervision to junior staff, students, and nursing associates.

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• Actively participate in teaching and learning activities within the service. Will account for one’s own professional practice in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct, and to maintain requirements for regular re-registration.

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• Developing therapeutic relationships which facilitate collaborative working. To maintain a high standard of written communication, recording appropriate events and observations in accordance with Trust policies and the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

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• Contributing and participating In the AIMs, CQC, and Quality improvement project on the ward and working with the team to complete task for the project.

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• Facilitating physical health clinic to promote good general wellbeing of the service users and ensuring that age related screening is taking place.

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• Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or a child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their limits and seeking for help and escalating concerns accordingly.

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• Maintaining accurate, timely documentation in line with the legal and professional standards.

Please refer the Job description for details