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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

• To contribute to the assessment of the referred person’s presentation, in collaboration with the MDT, including using the methods of Applied Behaviour Analysis and Positive Behaviour Support where appropriate
• To contribute to the development of comprehensive behaviour support plans and intervention plans in conjunction with the wider MDT
• To ensure the implementation and evaluation of these plans in conjunction with the referred person and their wider system.
• To train junior staff in implementing behaviour support plans, with a focus on improving the person’s quality of life, and model the implementation of plans including skills development work   

·       To act as named nurse/care co-ordinator to appointed service users

·       To assess the needs of service users and develop appropriate care programmes

·       To ensure that nursing care plans reflect the direction agreed by the clinical team and that these reflect local and national agendas and policies such as Valuing People

·       To ensure that care plans within the unit are regularly evaluated, including care plans done by junior staff, and to ensure that these are consistent with the hospital’s clinical audit and clinical governance systems

·       To monitor and ensure that all documentation with respect to the care of service users is appropriately carried out

·       To carry out preadmission assessments as required. This may involve visiting potential service users in their own homes

·       To take a leadership role in the discharge and resettlement of service users

·       To provide outreach services as required. This will involve supporting service users and their families or relatives in their own homes

·       To ensure that risk assessments are carried out and are up to date for all service users

·       To be trained in and able to use Physical Interventions within the agreed policy and as laid down in the care plan following appropriate assessment

·       To ensure that the administration of medicines within the unit is within NMC and other existing policies and procedures

·       To ensure that own and junior’s practice is within NMC guidelines and adheres to principles of Positive Behaviour Support

·       To monitor and ensure that all legal requirements and good practice guidelines are adhered to with respect to service users detained under the Mental Health Act 1983

·       To always act in a manner which ensures the nursing team pursues a cooperative approach to  care delivery with the rest of the clinical team

·       To provide professional leadership to all grades of junior staff

·       To facilitate effective communication within the team

·       To ensure that all clinical meetings take place

·       To provide clinical supervision to allocated junior staff

·       To mentor and support students who are on practice placements within the unit

·       To keep self-up to date with own professional practice

·       To produce written, verbal and statistical reports when required.