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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too. 

Management

·         Monitor the practice of junior staff and support learning and development needs.

·         Maintain own and supervise staff in maintaining professional, therapeutic relationship/boundaries with patients, carers, and colleagues.

·         Ensure provision of regular line management and clinical supervision as well as appraisals are done in line with trust policy.

·         Support service audit systems.

Clinical

·         To be accountable for own professional practice.

·         Support the development and implementation of recovery focused interventions to patients with at-risk mental state.

·         Initiate, create, and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers and relevant others, ensuring that clinical practice is recovery focused and patient cantered. 

·         Promote the involvement of service users, carers, and relevant others in the development of the care pathway.

·         Ensure that all patients are given a full explanation on their care pathway/treatment options and no decision is taken forward without their involvement and consent.

·         Provide training and support to others as appropriate, including non-statutory agencies.

·         Demonstrate effective personal planning and organisation of personal daily workload and that of others.

·         Work flexibly, managing own working time effectively according to service demands.

·         Make clinical judgements, identifying alternative courses of actions via problem solving, managing, and providing a high quality of care and supporting others to do the same.

·         Maintain respectful, effective professional interpersonal relationships with others.

·         To keep all relevant statutory and non-statutory agencies, including primary health, fully involved in the care plan process, through verbal and written communications.

·         To contribute to protecting vulnerable adults, older people, and young people by taking the necessary actions consistent with current legislation and Trust policies and procedures.

·         To highlight and raise concerns regarding risk and risk management of service users/carers and others.

·         To support care coordinator in the implementation of risk management where indicated.  Including the development of a crisis plan in consultation with the user, carer, and multi-disciplinary team.

·         To support service training to other professionals and agencies that may come into contact with people with at-risk stage presentations, supporting understanding of the signs and symptoms of illness and how to refer to the service.

Professional

·         Ensuring a working knowledge of at-risk mental state and the use of CAARMS in screening.

·         Demonstrate practice is reflective and informed by best practice including the use of NICE guidelines.

·         Adhere to local and professionally prescribed codes of conduct and practice. Maintain personal standards and ensure self and others adhere to all policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards set by the Trust and relevant bodies. To comply with all Trust Policies, Guidelines and Protocols.

·         Develop and maintain a professional portfolio which demonstrates engagement in reflective practice and meets the NMC requirements for PREP.

·         To work co-operatively in the partaking of regular performance reviews of personal practice in the context of the post. To use monthly line management and clinical supervision as per Trust Policy.

·         To be aware of one’s own limitations and to seek advice where necessary from appropriate senior practitioners/managers.

·         Identify any personal learning and training needs through supervision on a regular basis.

·         Support and develop the principles of joint partnership working and to be pro-acting in fostering positive inter-agency relationships and information sharing.

·         Be supportive of student placements and their learning outcomes; working collaboratively with the team to ensure that the clinical experience of student nurses is related to the educational curriculum.

·         Ensure yearly mentorship updates are made.

·         Attend all mandatory training as required by the Trust and to undertake further training and updating as required to carry out the role.

·         Ensure that personal appearance, practice, and manner of self and staff conform to the standards and expectations of the Trust.