Deputy ward manager | Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Job overview

Are you an exceptional Registered Mental Health Nurse yearning to develop your existing skills in a diverse but supportive area as a deputy team lead?

Are you looking for a rewarding new challenge and can adapt to a busy, fast paced and unique environment?

Are you a driven, flexible and highly motivated RMN who is passionate about high quality care delivery?

If any or a combination of these statements define you, then this may be the right role crafted just for you!

In our Pursuit to improve clinical outcomes for a complex patient population, we are looking to recruit a high calibre and enthusiastic RMN to work as a deputy team lead within our Offender Care Service at HMP Pentonville.

Prison nursing is both challenging & rewarding, where no two days are the same! You will need a good understanding of both the needs and challenges facing patients with multiple needs in a secure setting. The variation ensures the environment is not monotonous, keeping tasks stimulating alongside the support needed to deliver the best care possible.

Main duties of the job

The two wards provide both mental and physical healthcare to offenders who cannot be appropriately cared for in the prison’s ordinary wings. The unit usually works with an average of 18 patients with mental health needs and 4 with primary physical care problems (this varies with presenting needs).

The partnership between Barnet,Enfieldand Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originallyestablishedin 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Creating and working together to becomea great placeto work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and willat all timesbehave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:

• We arekind
• We arerespectful
• Weempower
• We are proudlydiverse

In order tomeet the needs of the new Partnership services you may berequiredfrom time to time to work atdifferent locationsto your normal place of work.

MAIN TASK AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical Responsibilities

Act as primary nurse for a defined group of patients and liaises with the associate nurses to ensure a consistent approach to delivering care.

Assess plan, implement and evaluate the care provided especially with regard to identifying and managing risk.

Accept responsibility for the implementation of the Care Programme Approach with their primary patients.

Encourage patients to accept an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programmes.

Enter and maintain records using electronic and paper based systems.

Works in partnership with Healthcare Officers & other healthcare Depts to ensure that patient’s needs are addressed, and to maximise the time out of cell and range of activities available for patients.

Treat prisoners and patients with fairness and respect, maintaining confidentiality appropriately.

Develop strategies for dealing with disturbed behaviour especially the ability to recognise and respond to signs of imminent disturbance.

Assist the inpatients manager and charge nurses in maintaining standards of care and participate in evaluation studies and projects as required.

To keep up to date with developments and research in mental health nursing and applies relevant to practice.

Participates in the running of therapeutic patients groups and provide a recovery focus approach to deliver care.

To be fully involved in presentations in ward rounds, handovers and other meetings where patient care is discussed and reviewed.

To expedite and participate in the assessment, admission, transfer and discharge of patients according to local guidelines and standards.

Ensure that as a nurse they understand the confidential nature of their work and their responsibilities as identified in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

To ensure the safe custody of drugs and that they are ordered and administered accordingly to Trust policies and the Misuse of Drugs Act.

To maintain an effective working knowledge of the administrative requirements and needs of patients detained under the Mental Health Act (1983).

To demonstrate specialist knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended by MHA 2007)

This advert closes on Wednesday 25 Sep 2024