Night Service Co-Ordinator - Mental Health Nurse

at  Active Care Group

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We’d like you to join us as a Night Service Co-Ordinator - Mental Health Nurse, at our service Ivetsey Bank in Stafford.
Ivetsey Bank Hospital is a Tier 4 Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) hospital for young people aged 12-18 with a diagnosed mental health condition. We’re committed to helping every person we support feel safe, happy and empowered, enabling them to live the best life possible.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

The Night Coordinator will have responsibility for the hospital at night for ensuring that staffing levels on all wards have the right skill mix and are in line with ladders, support and advise colleagues, to monitor the standards of care given and ensuring that colleagues adhere to ACG standards and policies.
This individual will be required to take on the role of the Night Coordinator during the night shift, they will be expected to support other wards with their breaks and provide effective leadership.

The site coordinator’s movements and management of the service are to be completed from the bleep holder’s ward.

• To take a handover from all wards including updates on any incidents, staffing levels and actions required to be carried forward.
• Make any required changes to staffing ensuring each ward has an equal allocation of permanent/agency staff, skill/gender mix.
• Attempt to cover any shifts not covered by using the Matrix system.
• Each ward should report all incidents, seclusions, sickness, DNA’s to the Night Coordinator to be recorded on the Night report at the end of each shift.
• Prepare a Night Report detailed below which should be shared with Ward Managers, Matron and Hospital Director
• Visit each ward throughout the night to ensure observations are being carried out and all colleagues are alert.
• Completion of 24 hour reports and CQC notifications alongside other documentation as advised by on call management
• Handover to the Ward Managers/CTLs in the morning.
• The Night Report will include:
• Actual staffing numbers against Budgeted staffing numbers
• Young people on enhanced support and what level
• Any incidents that have occurred
• Any planned interventions that have been missed (e.g. a missed NG feed) including reasons
• Any trips to General or other hospitals
• Anyone on overnight leave
• Any out of hours contractors (e.g. emergency carpenter) that needs to be called