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Has excellent communication skills and is able to communicate effectively and respectfully with service users, their carers, relatives and a wide range of healthcare professionals.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Excellent communication skills and a caring, compassionate and person-centred approach to patient care.
• A strong commitment to improving the quality of care and experience of inpatients within a mental health setting.
• Commitment to continuous professional development, with a willingness to learn, develop clinical skills and contribute positively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• The ability to provide effective clinical leadership, demonstrate best practice and act as a positive role model to colleagues both within the ward and across the wider unit.
• A commitment to safe, high-quality and evidence-based practice, with a focus on promoting recovery, dignity and positive outcomes for service users.
• The ability to work effectively in a high-acuity environment, demonstrating professionalism, resilience and sound clinical judgement.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.

Please contact the team for any additional information.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• UK NMC Registered Mental Health Nurse - RMN
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in the community / mental health services either as a band 5 nurse, a student nurse or health care assistant.
• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
• Able to maintain electronic patient records
• Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing
• Medicines management and administration
• Manual Handling patients

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate ability to assess, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care for individuals experiencing acute mental distress.
• Demonstrate Knowledge and skills in assessing and managing risk
• Demonstrate ability to co-ordinate a team and it’s day to day work.
• Demonstrate ability to use a range of therapeutic interventions with individuals in acute mental health crisis.
• Demonstrate understanding of CPA and it’s application.
• Demonstrate good communication skills, including listening, reflecting, empathy, facilitation, persuasion, motivation, negotiation, education and reassurance, even in challenging and sensitive situations.
• Demonstrate ability to determine and reduce risk to self, clients and others.
• Demonstrate understanding of the role of HTT and of the social model of care.
• Demonstrate a commitment and the ability to work as part of a team.
• Demonstrate knowledge of issues and developments within Mental Health and the National Health Service.
• Demonstrate ability to treat service users with respect and dignity at all times, adopting a culturally sensitive approach which considers the needs of the whole person
• Demonstrate ability to build constructive relationships with warmth and empathy, using good communication skills.
• Demonstrate ability to work professionally with challenging and difficult behaviours

Desirable criteria

• Demonstrate knowledge of audit and research.
• Demonstrate the ability to promote the HTT to clients, other professional and non-professional groups.
• Demonstrate ability to work as an autonomous clinician.