Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £25.01 – £25.01
Partner Org: Royal Surrey County Hospital
Looking for flexible work in the NHS?
The Flexi‑Bank is a collaborative staff bank hosted by Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, offering greater choice, flexibility and access to a wider range of opportunities across both organisations.
Why join the Flexi‑Bank?
Work flexibly – choose shifts that suit your lifestyle and availability
Access more opportunities – pick up shifts across mental health, community and acute care settings
Get paid fairly and on time – competitive rates and fast access to earnings through Stream
Stay supported – benefit from training, development and guidance from our dedicated Temporary Staffing Team
Be part of something bigger – join a growing collaborative of NHS Trusts across Surrey
Main duties of the job
Surrey and Borders is looking for someone who is passionate about ensuring a high-quality holistic approach to the care and support provided to clients in the community who have been identified as in need of community support to enable them to exercise choice over their own lives.
Location : Unither House, Curfew Bell Rd, Chertsey KT16 9FG
Working Pattern: 2 days/week from 9 AM to 5 PM
Key Responsibilities
- To undertake detailed assessments of service users needs, developing individual
- To be responsible for sharing best clinical practice and to initiate innovative practice usingevidence based research.
- To have the clinical knowledge and skills to provide individual care plans.
- To develop and maintain excellent links with all stakeholders.
- To establish therapeutic relationships and collaborative partnerships in order to ensure best working practice.
- To take responsibility for self-development and training updates with support from the Clinical Lead.
- To act as a role model for support workers and new team members.
- To contribute knowledge, skills and expertise to the overall performance of the team.
- To support fellow team members and maintain and develop the philosophy and values of the team.
- To keep well informed, to listen and respond to the views of colleagues, service users and their carers and encourage feedback to the team.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Would you like to work in an organisation that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To accurately record all contacts with service users in case notes in line with SABP record keeping policy.
- To ensure effective communication with clients, relatives and carers, visitors, staff and others.
- To ensure that all communication takes place in a manner that is consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.
- To develop measures to improve communications where barriers exist
- To lead the development, maintenance and monitoring of service standards, collect and collate data/ information effectively for the purpose of audit, research and service performance.
- To develop, with others, measures for service standards, including benchmarking, and to identify areas for potential service improvement.
- To contribute to the maintenance, monitoring and implementation of service standards and policies.
- To promote shared decision making with service user/relatives/carers, as appropriate, involvement in all aspects of their care.
- To contribute and make suggestions to the improvement of services.
- To present a positive image of the team, service and trust.
- To work effectively in own team and as part of the whole organization.
- To ensure the availability of clinical supervision
- To ensure structures are in place for effective appraisal, personal development and performance management and audit these regularly.
- To assess and plan care in a manner that is consistent with the Evidence based practice, policies and procedures and the management of risk.
- To understand the range of risks potentially faced by the service user group.
- To undertake risk assessments and management strategies in line with trust and local policies, and ensure the delivery of care within same.
- To contribute to the CPA process and to support service users relatives/carers and other agencies within this process.
- To be aware of the potential for vulnerability to abuse amongst the service users/families, and use of the local policy to inform appropriate personnel in line with safeguarding vulnerable adults and children and SABP Policies
- To take all possible precautions to safeguard the welfare and safety of staff, service users, visitors and the public, by implementing all policies related to health, safety, securityand risk.
- To identify one’s own development needs and set personal development objectives in collaboration with the appraiser.
- To demonstrate the achievement of competencies through the collection of evidence within a personal portfolio.
- To participate in the recruitment, deployment and management of staff in line with SABP policy.
- To lead the development, maintenance and monitoring of service standards, collect and collate data/ information effectively for the purpose of audit, research and service performance.
- To identify, implement and evaluate, with others, areas for potential service improvement and agreesfurther action.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognized professional qualification RMN
- Professional registration with recognized body
Experience
Essential criteria
- A minimum of 12 months post registration experience in Adult Mental Health
- Aware of personal and professional boundaries
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