Band 6 Depot Nurse RMN - Swindon

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen at Swindon recovery team for a full time band 6 depot nurse. The depot nurse sees a wide range of service-users and will be responsible for the running of the depot clinic. Depot nurse will work closely with band 5 depot nurse.  It will be band 6 depot nurse to coordinate and oversee the running of the clinic.  They will be responsible for completing CPA reviews yearly, ensuring service users under depot clinic are seen by physical health practitioner for yearly review.  Any missed appointments will be followed up by depot nurse .

Main duties of the job

• Senior depot nurse will liaise with CIT and facilitate a sensitive transfer of care when Service Users approach the age of 65 years old.
• Referrals made for short pieces of work where additional needs are identified. This could include referrals to MHWP, PTS or MIND Senior Depot Nurse will provide carers support to family members if requested.
• Senior depot nurse to attend this annual review/CPA and to follow up with monitoring effectiveness of any medication changes/reductions made to prescriptions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To contribute to the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for service users with severe and enduring mental health needs living in the community and in a range of settings.

This may include:

a. The use of standardised assessment tools such as Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST).

b. Recovery Star.

c. History, strengths and aspirations.

d. Mental state.

e. Impact of culture and diversity.

f. Functional needs.

g. The needs of family and carer.

h. Evaluation of risk.

i. Physical health.

j. Complicating factors.

k. The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.

l. Social Care needs.

m. Safeguarding and public protection.

2. To contribute to planning, delivering, and reviewing treatment programmes using appropriate frameworks in line with evidence-based practice, including strategies to manage risk for service users with complex needs and carers, bringing in other resources as required.

3. To act as care coordinator for identified service users, also providing defined interventions to individuals on other workers caseloads.

4. To contribute to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of defined therapeutic interventions as identified in line with personal recovery plans, including to service users who maybe on other caseloads.

This might include:

a. Individual or group therapeutic intervention.

b. psychological treatments such as CBT, DBT approaches, family interventions.

c. Psychosocial interventions.

d. Motivational and coping enhancement strategies.

e. Medication management.

f. Interventions under the Mental Health Act.

5. To deliver a range of activities/defined interventions to improve the friends/relatives/carers (carers) ability to support the service user and to enable them in their relationship with the service user.

6. To develop and maintain good partnership working with other services is maintained throughout all treatment episodes, including regular liaison within Primary Health Care Team, inpatient services, day services, voluntary sector and with nominated carers/advocates.

7. In collaboration with service users and carers, to be responsible for facilitating the development of comprehensive crisis plans, rapid access plans, advance statements etc, involving other agencies such as primary care etc where appropriate.

8. To personally build hope inspiring relationships with service users, which acknowledge the personal journey of each person and focus on strengths and aspirations to allow the creation of meaningful personal recovery plans.

9. To be responsible for maintaining own workload, on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that time is prioritised effectively, making full use of electronic resources such as diaries/scheduling.

10. To be responsible for the protection of individuals from abuse and harm in line with local safeguarding policies and procedures, by contributing with others to the plans to protect people at risk, ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

11. To facilitate access for service users and carers to appropriate community services and interventions outside secondary mental health services and across the complete recovery pathway.

12. Personally working collaboratively and sensitively with individuals with a range of mental health needs to develop skills to manage their own health, in accordance with their personal recovery plan, by actively promoting and using approaches which are affirming, build on strengths, identify past positive experience and success, and use small steps to move towards the person's goal.

13. To maintain the single health and social care record, ensuring both paper and electronic records are kept up to date in accordance with professional and organisational standards.

14. Report and record within agreed timeframes, all activity relating to information reporting and performance requirements.

15. To proactively participate in management, workload and clinical supervision in accordance with trust policy, taking personal responsibility for making appropriate arrangements.

16. To provide mentoring/ training for others in relevant practice areas, according to professional requirements, taking a collaborative approach to practice development and evidence-based care. Specifically this means providing a safe and effective learning environment for the mentoring and supervising of students, participating in their learning objectives and assessments.

17. Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal, and by providing appropriate information to help others.

18. To adhere to professional codes of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.

19. To participate in local arrangements in order to ensure consistent care to service users across the local geography.

20. To show willingness to support practices which foster and maintain team working.