Job summary
- Main area
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 267-SS6461540-A
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Meadow unit
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum/pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Nursing Associate - Learning Disability/Autism - Hospital@Home
Band 4
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We know Job Descriptions and Specifications can sometimes be long which can be off-putting for some people, and we don’t want to let that deter you from applying.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you’re excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQI+ community.
Good luck and we hope to hear from you!
Job overview
Would you like to work in an innovative CAMHS Tier 4 service?
Are you interested in delivering intensive community support to young people and their families, as an alternative to hospital admission?
Are you keen to work with highly motivated and passionate colleagues?
The Learning Disability and Autism (LDA) Hospital at Home team are looking for a Registered Nursing Associate to join their team. You must have already completed or be nearing completion of your Nursing Associate Foundation Degree in order to be eligible to apply for this role.
LDA Hospital at Home is an innovative new service being developed under the Thames Valley Provider Collaborative. The Hospital at Home team will focus on young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities AND/OR a severe degree of functional impairment associated with an autism diagnosis who are at risk of home or placement breakdown and who could meet the threshold for inpatient care.
In some cases, the team will help prevent unnecessary admissions and in others, young people will be stepped down from tier 4 care through the LDA Hospital at Home team, shortening their inpatient admission. LDA Hospital at Home maximizes the use of new technology, provides care close to home, reduces admission, length of stay, waiting times and provides earlier discharge from inpatient care.
Main duties of the job
As the LDA Nursing Associate in the team you will have a breadth of knowledge across the fields of nursing, providing holistic and person-centred care and support for young people up to 18 years old and in a variety of settings.
Your base will be in the new offices in the Meadow Unit on the Warneford site, there also will be planned visits within the community across the Thames Valley collaborative area. you will be required to work flexibly, whilst planned between the hours of 8am-8pm.
The role will assist the registered nursing staff (Band 5 and above) and other health professionals to deliver a wide range of nursing interventions including the care and treatment of multiple mental health illness’ , young people that may have a learning disability and/ or autism and social vulnerability. It requires strong all-round capability, insights and adaptability in physical and mental health, as well as organisational, communication and inter-personal skills.
By managing the care pathway, we will be able to ensure that children and young people are cared for in an inpatient setting or via an ‘out of hospital’ service as close to home as possible. This will:
- Reduce the burden on families to travel long distances
- Enhance continued engagement with community clinical teams
- Encourage early therapeutic home leave
- Minimise Length of Stay
- Avoid admission
Working for our organisation
The LDA Hospital at Home team are currently recruiting our multi-disciplinary team (MDT), we are a specialist service working with patients up to 18 years old, who are at risk of admission due to mental health difficulties.
Should you wish to discuss the role in more detail ahead of making an application please contact the modern matron, Penny Foley
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”.
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”.
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Work on a shared caseload for the team and to be supervised by a registered Nurse
- Record own work on electronic patient records e.g. Rio
- Contribute to Nursing assessments e.g. Initial Assessments, Nursing Assessments, etc. (including writing and sharing nursing formulations and nursing recommendations with relevant people
- Contribute to the design and implementation of clinical interventions including care planning.
- Monitoring and feeding back on the physical and mental well-being of service users, including escalation of care needs when necessary.
- Signposting to and working in collaboration with appropriate health services, inpatient and community-based support. Liaising with other professionals outside the immediate MDT – including GP’s, hospital departments doctors and nurses, social care, education etc.
- Deliver, under supervision, specific therapeutic interventions to meet the physical, emotional and psychological, social, cultural and spiritual needs of individuals and carers.
- Arrange patient & carer monitoring visits and attend, as part of a planned package of care
- Discuss and explain a plan of care with patients and families or carers including the use of Easy Read information.
- Write and review care plans under supervision from a registered Nurse and update electronic care records. (e.g. Rio)
- Create and update Patient held Care records e.g. Health action plans, hospital passports etc.
- Undertake Health Education work – e.g. impact of mental health illness on overall wellbeing and support for individuals and families on recognising signs, symptoms and ongoing triggers.
- Monitoring patient medication concordance. Educating patients re possible side effects and monitoring same. Administering of Medication in accordance with regulatory guidelines for Nursing Associates if required.
- Sourcing or designing and producing Easy Read Documents
- Record Keeping– updating initial assessments, updating risk summaries, writing and sending closure letters to service users and their families and GP’s
- Supervision & Preceptorship including statutory & mandatory training, learning & development, and CPD.
- Multi-Disciplinary Team working with the entire LDA hospital @home Team to deliver holistic, evidence based, assessments and interventions.
Person specification
Knowledge requirements
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and refer to a registered health or care professional
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with people with a Learning Disability and/ or Autism
Qualifications – Academic/Skills/Professional
Essential criteria
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register.
- Completion of Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification.
Job Related Knowledge, Skills and Aptitude
Essential criteria
- Ability to recognise own limitations in the context of the nursing associate role
- Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans
- Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and health care support workers as required within the clinical setting.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working with Young people or adults with a learning disability or Autism
Desirable criteria
- Significant experience within a health/care setting relevant to the role.
- Previous experience of working for a larger organisation and within a Multi-disciplinary team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Penny Foley
- Job title
- Modern matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07964901751
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