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Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
About
We provide health and social care for people with mental ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk and North Essex. Employing around 3,000 staff who deliver these services within the community as well as inpatient settings. HPFT was rated as outstanding overall by the CQC at the last inspection and we are proud winners of the prestigious Health Service Journal Award Mental Health Trust of the Year.
We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services and medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
We have operated as a NHS Foundation Trust since our authorisation in August 2007. This gives us opportunities to further build upon and improve the services for our community. Benefits include a stronger involvement with local communities through our members and Council of Governors and the ability to borrow finance to support our capital investment programme.
Our work is driven by a very strong set of values. We provide services which make a positive difference to the lives of patients, service users and their carers, underpinned by choice, independence and equality.
Safety is a top priority at HPFT and for the second year running in 2019, we achieved a national ‘best score’ for the theme of safety culture amongst mental health and learning disability trusts, which is a tremendous achievement. Our staff have told us that the care of our service users is the most important thing at HPFT. Staff also recommend HPFT as a place to work and as a place for their friends and family to receive care.
Our partnerships with other organisations are very important to the way in which we work. We play a full part in the local health and social care economies by promoting greater integration between mental and physical health and social care. These include:
- Local authorities and commissioners. We work closely with our local commissioners. Our largest contract involves working with East and North Herts CCG, Herts Valley CCG and Hertfordshire County Council to deliver integrated health and social care services.
- Our Chief Executive, Tom Cahill, led the development of ‘A Healthier Future’, the sustainability and transformation plan for Herts and West Essex which has since been granted ‘Integrated Care System’ (ICS) status.
- Being a university trust, with close links to the University of Hertfordshire. This provides excellent learning and development opportunities for staff, as well as strengthening clinical research.
Enhanced Support Nurse Practitioner
Accepting applications until: 02-Jan-2025 08:00
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 02-Jan-2025 08:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Lexden Hospital, London Road, Colchester, CO3 4DB
- Address
- London Road
- Town
- Colchester
- Postcode
- CO3 4DB
- Major / Minor Region
- Hertfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nursing
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
The post holder will work in close collaboration with other professionals, including the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team (Nursing, Psychiatry, Psychology, Allied Health Professionals and Arts Therapies) in assessing service user’s needs, devising care plans and evaluating outcomes that promote service user empowerment through the process. The post holder, with the wider Multi-Disciplinary Team will provide high quality, individualised care, which addresses the needs of the service users and meets individual health needs.
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• Actively support people with a learning disability in a variety of settings to improve their physical, mental and emotional health. This is delivered through person-centred assessment and treatment, which will subsequently be evaluated for achievement of identified goals.
• Improve the lives of people with a learning disability by minimising the impact of their condition through the delivery of excellent services to promote recovery and wellbeing.
• Professionally accountable and responsible for patient care, undertaking a range of clinical/therapeutic interventions in hospital or patients’ homes and other community settings.
• Act as lead professional or care co-ordinator as appropriate.
• Facilitate others in the team to develop competence by providing leadership, day to day supervision, clinical advice and clinical supervision to associate practitioners, healthcare assistants and students as appropriate.
• Advocate for and promote a positive image of people with a learning disability.
• Provide advice on reasonable adjustments to primary and secondary healthcare services.
• Promote the inclusion of people with learning disabilities into mainstream services, through health facilitation, education and training of key personnel.
• Ensure statutory requirements of the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act are observed and applied.
Working for our organisation
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Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Work collaboratively with service users, carers and families to deliver nursing assessment and then plan, implement and evaluate identified interventions, with a view to improving physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
• Carry out clinical nursing procedures/techniques where required, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
• Implement and promote evidence-based clinical processes and standards of practice across the service area.
• Promote and assist the completion of health action plans.
• Facilitate individual therapeutic sessions to achieve identified health outcomes for service users in accordance with assessed needs.
• Develop and review a range of comprehensive and evidence-based clinical risk assessments and associated care plans. Ensure these plans have meaningful service user, carer and interdisciplinary involvement throughout the process.
• Provide written reports as necessary for service user reviews.
• Ensure the administration and safe custody of drugs and medications in accordance with Trust policy and procedure, as well as NMC guidelines.
• Lead specific groups/sessions with clear objectives where identified.
• Comply with and promote the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Professional Conduct
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education, Qualifications &Training
Essential criteria
- Relevant Professional Registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) (
- Demonstrable commitment to ongoing training and development
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship Training
- Management Training
- Teaching or training experience
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of common physical, mental and emotional health needs experienced by people with a learning disability
- Experiencing of assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating nursing care according to assessed need using person-centred approaches
- Experience of working with people with learning disabilities or complex health needs
- Experience of using assessment and screening tools to support analysis and make formulations and recommendations based on this
- Working knowledge of legislation and policy relating to learning disabilities
- Experience of maintaining high standards of recordkeeping consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John O'Connor
- Job title
- Nurse Team Leader – Enhanced Support
- Email address
- john.o'[email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07748 631968
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