Senior Acute Care Nurse

Provide safe, effective and compassionate inpatient nursing care to older adults experiencing acute mental health difficulties, working collaboratively with patients, carers and the multidisciplinary team.Undertake nursing and risk assessments; develop, implement and evaluate person-centred care and risk management plans; and deliver evidence-based interventions that support recovery, autonomy and wellbeing.

Coordinate shifts and provide clinical leadership, supporting staff to prioritise care, respond to changing needs and maintain safe ward practice.

Coordinate named-nurse care, contribute to clinical reviews and support admission, treatment and discharge planning across the acute care pathway.

Provide supervision and guidance to colleagues and students within delegated responsibilities, supporting learning, reflective practice and professional development.

Support the Ward Manager with delegated operational duties, clinical standards, audit, governance and service improvement. Promote reducing restrictive practice and recognise, respond to and escalate safeguarding or safety concerns.

Maintain accurate, timely records and effective handovers, practising in accordance with professional standards, Trust policies and information governance requirements.

Work flexibly within a 24-hour, seven-day inpatient service.

Operational hours are over 24 hours, 7 days a week.

Provide a high standard of clinical care, ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.

To delegate aspects of the patient treatment plan to other members of the team whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients' care, where appropriate.

Plan, implement, review and improve interventions to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk with comprehensive Clinical Risk Formulation

To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programs of support for carers and families.

Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.

To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring effective and appropriate clinical decision-making with other professionals and agencies.

To maintain accurate and timely clinical records and to coordinate and monitor those of the team.

To adhere to N.M.C. or other professional codes of conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.

To participate in Clinical Governance activities, including induction, supervision, personal development review, health and safety, risk management and audit.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.

Qualifications

Desirable: - Certificate in clinical supervision; - Management Training

Experience

Desirable: - Experience of working within mental health care within the NHS

Skills