Wellbeing Nurse
- NHS
- Full Time
- Milton Keynes
- 37338.00 - 44962.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
An exciting position has arisen for an experienced Nurse with interest in medication management and physical health, is passionate about improving outcomes for service users with long term mental illness within our Community Mental health Hub.
If you are, then you will already know that people with serious mental illness have significantly shorter than average life expectancy and much higher than average incidence of physical health conditions.
We are continually striving to redress this health equality in our service by appointing a Wellbeing Nurse to oversee the running of the community depot clinics and to be responsible alongside our Physical Health Nurses for ensuring our seriously mentally ill patients receive their anti psychotic medication and physical health checks.
As well as having good knowledge of mental health conditions, anti -psychotic medication and associated side effects, you will need to be a highly organised person, able to adapt quickly.
Main duties of the job
- To coordinate and oversee the running of wellbeing and depot clinic's working closely and flexibly with a team of Physical Health Nurses as part of the Community Mental health Hub. Provide comprehensive and accessible mental health services to services users in a clinic setting, working with people diagnosed with severe and enduring mental illness in the community.
- To engage with service users within the clinic setting, to assess mental state, physical health, monitor treatment, support concordance and ensure prompt action is taken to alleviate unwanted effects of prescribed medication to make every contact count MECC
- To assess physical health and deliver interventions to promote optimal physical wellbeing (i.e. smoking, weight and lifestyle issues) working closely with the physical health nurses.
- To lead and participate in the running of the weekly depot clinic, communicating any issues or concerns about depot patients with the relevant members of staff in the team
- Demonstrate competency at running busy treatment clinics, develop a specialty in depot administration sharing knowledge of this to upskill other nurses in the team
- Deliver training to other staff and students on the delivery of depots.
- Keyworking and to develop a process to ensure patients under depot-only provision are accessing medical reviews when required
- Stocktake medication usage to ensure all medications are ordered and available.
About us
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patients own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We're always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust.
With every new employee were hoping to find our future leaders and well support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Job responsibilities
- To participate in relevant meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training
- To undertake risk assessments, according to Trust policy
- To assess physical health and deliver interventions to promote optimal physical wellbeing (i.e. smoking, weight and lifestyle issues)
- To help clients gain fair and equal access to services, through choice and social inclusion and being sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity and gender, sexuality and disability
- To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies
- To ensure CNWL Child Protection Guidelines and Safeguarding Children and Adult procedures are fully understood by self and others. To ensure the safety needs of children and adults are met at all times
- To provide leadership for junior staff, through supervision and appraisal.
- To provide mentorship for students on placement within the team.
- To educate internal and external customers of Service, including students and junior staff of all professions
- To care plan using DIALOG plus
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Qualification at Diploma or Degree level in Mental Health nursing/ Social work or Occupational Therapy
- Student supervision/mentoring qualification
Experience
Essential
- Sound knowledge base
- Excellent understanding of the therapeutic relationship and boundaries
- Substantial post basic experience in Mental Health
Desirable
- Experience of working in the community
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent knowledge of MHA 2007, the MHA Bill and MCA Varied clinical approaches. Client advocate.
- Understands & promotes equality, diversity and human rights in accordance with legislation, policy and procedures relating to recruitment (KSF 6.2)*
- Understanding of confidentiality in the workplace
Key Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Ability to develop & maintain high standards of communication both orally and in writing with people about difficult matters & / in difficult situations (KSF 1.3)*
Personal Disposition
Essential
- Ability to maintain quality in own work and encourage others to do so (KSF 5.2)*
- Car Owner with full driving license
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Westcroft Health Centre
1 Savill Lane, Westcroft
Milton Keynes
MK4 4EN
