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Job overview

• Be responsible for the MH assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation of care for service users on 136
• Be required to teach other nursing and non-nursing personnel
• Be a role model through their own good practice
• Be responsible for maintaining clinical standards, and team systems under the direction of the MHLT
• Assist the team leader in maintaining effective team working processes, including outcome measures
• Be expected to deputise for the team leader in their absence
• To manage the 136 resources and clinical environment where the 136 patient is during shift
• To provide reports to the senior management team on the 136 activity in the Emergency dept
• To revolve into MHLT assessor when no 136 are currently in dept -follow MHLT policy and JD

The successful candidate will receive up to £120 towards their registration fee, which will be paid upon commencement. This payment will be subject to tax and national insurance deductions. 

Main duties of the job

• Will function as a 136 Flow coordinator nurse within acute trust setting
• Providing care and oversight of individuals or group of service users as allocated, taking responsibility for formulation of appropriate care plans in line with 136 policy
• Will coordinate all co-workers assigned to his/her service user group and will ensure they are all fully conversant with all aspects regarding service users care and treatment
• Will identify the individual care needs of allocated services users plan, implement, and evaluate all care programmes in conjunction with wider MDT
• Will maintain close liaison with police and secure care staff
• Will maintain close liaison with all dept staff involved in service users care [both from within the acute trust/HPFT and colleagues in police or secure care] and report on effectiveness and progress to MDT
• Will lead and / or participate in clinical discussions, case conference etc and will prepare reports on service users as required
• Will escalate any concerns re patient health or requirements , liase with appropriate medical /psychiatric drs with regards to need for prescribing medication etc
• Will demonstrate and serve as an example for all clinical activities to appropriate grades of staff
• To participate in assessment with also formulate management, care planning and review of all individuals, held under 136 in the acute trust ,as appropriate with the relevant disciplines

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on…