NursingNetUK

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role is focused on providing appropriate, effective interventions and treatments to students with complex and severe mental health needs enabling and assisting them to meet daily health, social care, academic and wellbeing needs, in line with personal recovery goals, and facilitating engagement with services.

Always working under the relevant overarching clinical framework. The post holder will be responsible for the ongoing assessment, planning delivery and review of activities and interventions against identified health, social care and wellbeing needs.

The role will also require undertaking and delivering specific health or social care assessments and intervention, as part of a group activity and on a one to one basis.

To undertake the full range of activities required to deliver ongoing comprehensive mental health assessment for students with severe and complex mental health needs. This will include:

• The use of standardised assessment tools, i.e. the Cluster Allocation Support Tool (CAST), KGV
• Recovery Star
• History, strengths and aspirations
• Mental state
• Impact of culture and diversity
• Functional needs
• The needs of family and carer
• Evaluation and managing of risk
• Physical health
• Complicating factors
• The interventions and treatments required to enable positive change.
• Social care needs
• Safeguarding and public protection
• Capacity under the Mental Capacity Act

Connect students to appropriate community and voluntary sector support working alongside the two universities.

Facilitate mental health and ‘strengths-based’ assessments and support students to ensure they are able to access appropriate services.

Promote understanding and confidence in the delivery of mental health care within the two universities and collaboration with all agencies involved in the care of students.

Provide information, ‘sign posting’ and support for students with complex mental health needs.

Foster strong collaborative and trusting working relationships with referrers, primary care, voluntary care and secondary care health professionals underpinned by an educative and solutions focused philosophy whilst providing credible clinical expertise.

Facilitate the development of safe and effective mental health care practice within the two universities.

Promote the importance of working with strengths and aspirations of the person referred.

Provide succinct formulations and recommendations (inclusive of risk management advice) to support patient safety planning.

Assess and advise on the impact of culture and diversity.

Give best practice advice and support students with complex mental health needs.

Advise and support on evaluating risk.

Support and advise within safeguarding and public protection procedures where the issues are complicated by mental health problems.

Provide a prompt response to all referrer’s following jointly agreed procedures and within agreed time frames.

Following assessment, provide short- term follow up of patients where appropriate.

Contribute evidence-based expertise to multi-disciplinary team processes.

Promote positive attitudes, mutual understanding and collaboration between non-mental health staff and mental health services, users, voluntary agencies, primary care and social services ensuring the appropriate sharing of information.

Demonstrate responsibility for developing own practice in line with professional qualifications and for contributing to the development of others, by making use of and providing, effective feedback, supervision, coaching and appraisal.

Adhere to the relevant professional code of conduct ensuring required skills and competencies required are maintained.

Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others, undertaking assessments and taking appropriate action where required.

Develop own knowledge and practice, and contribute to the development of others, making use of available feedback, supervision and appraisal to identify appropriate areas of development for this work role, taking responsibility for accessing identified learning and training opportunities.

Maintain appropriate health record, in accordance with professional and organisational standards.

Participate in clinical audit and service evaluation programmes as required.

Participate in local arrangements, where required, to manage unexpected staff absences.