Acute Care Nurse

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 peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk. To assess carers and familys 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.

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