Acute Care Nurse

at  Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Band 5 Acute Care Worker: An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified Mental Health Nurse or Social Worker to work within the Louth Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team. The team provides a swift response to people who are in an acute phase of mental illness, providing home treatment in order to prevent hospital admission.
To be successful in this role, 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.
You will receive regular supervision in both Management and Clinical. As well as being expected to provide leadership and supervision to other staff and student nurses.
You will be expected to work 12-hour shifts, 9am to 10pm including weekends.
If you would like to be considered for this post, we look forward to hearing from you. Please contact Karen Chapman, Team Co-ordinator 01507 609906 or via email Karen.chapman24@lpft.nhs.uk
Home Treatment
Assessment
Producing Care Plans
Risk Assessments
Crisis Intervention
Triage
Safeguarding
Relapse Prevention
Clinical and Managerial Supervision
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.
To provide a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment, and comprehensive discharge planning.
To work flexibly across a 7-day-a-week service, working 9am to 10pm shifts
Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour.
Plan, implement, review, and improve interventions to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk.
To assess carers’ and family’s needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for cares and families.
To identify & protect people from abuse, neglect and harm working alongside safeguarding.
Enable individuals to develop independent living skills and live in the community.
To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making, both within the Crisis Team and with external agencies.
To maintain accurate and timely clinical records.
To adhere to N.M.C. codes of professional conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
To develop clinical practice having due regard to guidelines of the N.S.F. for Older People, N.S.F for Mental Health, N.I.C.E. and N.I.M.H.E.
To demonstrate empowering leadership skills within the Crisis Team and seek opportunities in local and national area as to promote and develop the profession.
To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including: induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audit.
Develop effective and supportive links with other health and social care staff. To create networks that improve the pathway of care for clients referred to the Crisis Team

Please refer the Job description for details