Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
- To lead the clinical management of a care package to an individual who uses our services.
- To co-ordinate and monitor the delivery of person centered healthcare to a designated group of people who use our services, using complex clinical decision making where appropriate.
- To deliver individual and group therapy utilizing CBT skills.
- To work as a member of the MDT in assessing and planning care and responding to changes in people who use our services health.
- To ensure provision of the necessary physical care to help people who use our services i.e.: personal hygiene, diet and fluid intake, clothing and laundry, personal environment, manual handling, elimination, maintaining rest and sleep and activity, physical observations.
- To act in a manner to respect the customs, individuality, values, sexuality and spiritual beliefs, actively supporting the individual to fulfil these.
- To ensure provision of therapeutic activities, emotional support and stability to clients to ensure effective engagement whilst maintaining professional boundaries.
- To create, develop and maintain professional supportive relationships with all members of staff with other professionals and agencies to enhance recovery.
- To ensure prescribed physical observations are undertaken as follows: blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood sugars, urinalysis, weight and height and act upon exceptions appropriately
Communication
- To accurately record all contacts with service users in case notes in line with SABP record keeping policy.
- To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives and carers, visitors, staff and others.
- To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
- To develop measures to improve communications where barriers exist
- To ensure that consent to intervention or assessment is sought in a manner that is meaningful to People who use our services.
- To communicate with people in a manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture and background
Quality
- To lead the development, maintenance and monitoring of service standards, collect and collate data/ information effectively for the purpose of audit, research and service performance.
- To identify, implement and evaluate, with others, areas for potential service improvement and to agree further action
- To develop, with others, measures for service standards, including benchmarking, and to identify areas for potential service improvement.
- To contribute to the maintenance, monitoring and implementation of service standards and policies.
- To promote shared decision making with service user/relatives/carers, as appropriate, involvement in all aspects of their care.
- To contribute and make suggestions to the improvement of services.
- To identify issues of concern at work and alerting appropriate personnel
- To present a positive image of the team, service and trust.
- To work effectively in own team and as part of the whole organization...
- To ensure the availability of clinical supervision and preceptorship
- To ensure structures are in place for effective appraisal, personal development and performance management and audit these regularly
- To assess and plan care in a manner that is consistent with the Evidence based practice, policies and procedures and the management of risk
Risk Assessment
- To understand the range of risks potentially faced by the service user group.
- To undertake risk assessments and management strategies in line with trust and local policies, and ensure the delivery of care within same.
- To recognize potential crisis situations and act responsively and responsibly to resolve the situation, seeking assistance if required.
- To contribute to the CPA process and to support service users relatives/carers and other agencies within this process.
- To be aware of the potential for vulnerability to abuse amongst the service users/families, and use of the local policy to inform appropriate personnel in line with safeguarding vulnerable adults and children and SABP Policies
- To take all possible precautions to safeguard the welfare and safety of staff, service users, visitors and the public, by implementing all policies related to health, safety, security and risk.
- To identify and address health education issues that cause risks relevant to service user group.
- To ensure the safe custody of all patients in accordance with their
- Leave status as defined by the Responsible Medical Officer. This includes the supervision of patients within the community.
Professional/Personal Development
- To utilize in clinical supervision, and appraisal in enhancing performance development.
- To identify one’s own development needs and set personal development objective in collaboration with the appraiser.
- To adhere to the Nursing and Midwifery council code of professional conduct for nurses.
- To ensure attendance at all SABP essential training.
- To demonstrate the achievement of competencies through the collection of evidence within a personal portfolio.
- To participate in the orientation and induction of all new staff.
- To contribute to the experience of learners and to ensure delivery of mentorship requirements meeting NMC standards for nursing students.
Management
- To participate in the recruitment, deployment and management of staff in line with SABP policy.
- To lead the development, maintenance and monitoring of service standards, collect and collate data/ information effectively for the purpose of audit, research and service performance.
- To identify, implement and evaluate, with others, areas for potential service improvement and agrees further action.
- To ensure structures are in place for effective appraisal, personal development and performance management and audit these regularly.
- To assist the team leader in ensuring a safe roster in the clinical area.
- To assess and plan care in a manner that is consistent with evidence based practice, policies and procedures and the management of risk.
- To take all possible precautions to safeguard the welfare and safety of staff, service users, visitors and the public, by implementing all policies related to health, safety, security and risk.
- To ensure compliance by self and staff of the Trust’s Standing Orders, Standing Financial Instructions, Policies, Procedures and Guidelines, including taking all reasonable steps to manage and promote a healthy working and diverse working environment.
- To adhere to professional confidentiality standard