JOB SUMMARY
To provide support to occupational therapists through contributing towards the assessment process and analysing the strengths and needs of patients with severe and enduring mental health needs.
To provide and deliver occupation focused interventions on an individual and group basis, as directed by the occupational therapist, and report on progress.
To support individuals in our care to achieve their personal goals and aspirations.

MISSION, VISION AND VALUES
Mission
Realising potential

Vision
We offer best-practice interventions to enable personal recovery and well-being.

Values
The individual is at the heart of everything we do

We inspire, stimulate and empower people to achieve and grow through compassionate, supportive and protective relationships.

We deliver and continuously evaluate high-quality service whilst respecting differences, promoting dignity and supporting the privacy of others.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Principle Responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for the following:

Professional Practice:
•Assist the occupational therapists in building a structured routine for patients through the implementation and facilitation of occupation focussed intervention.
•Prioritise the delivery of a therapeutic timetable based on promoting occupational balance with a view to improve/maintain patient skill base.
•Provide a motivational and flexible approach to supporting patients to improve their independence in activities of daily living and overall quality of life.
•Understand the importance of the patient as the centre of the healthcare system, demonstrating that you consult and involve patients in decisions about their treatment, care and well- being.
•Deliver culturally sensitive, respectful, and non-judgemental patient care.
•Complete elements of the occupational therapy process under the supervision and direction of an occupational therapist. This includes completion of interest checklists, OSA, MOHOST SOF, analysis of results, planning group and individual interventions, and aspects of report writing.
•Support in the application of grading and adaptation of activities to suit individual strengths and needs. To contribute to evaluation and modification of therapeutic interventions under the supervision of an occupational therapist.
•Support individuals in our care to identify and work towards meeting their personal goals and aspirations.
•Work with a degree of autonomy and as part of a team, completing specific activities, set out by established protocols and within your scope of practice.
•Communicate and share information effectively, timely and concisely in a range of situations, including documentation, handovers and MDT meetings, depicting the level of engagement during intervention.
•Monitor patient’s physical, mental health and cognitive functioning and feedback to the occupational therapist/clinical lead occupational therapist any notable changes in presentation.

Faciliation of Learning:
•Identify own learning needs through active participation in regular supervision and annual appraisals.
•Be open to guidance from more experienced colleagues to identify and act on own learning needs.
•Actively seek out opportunities to learn from and with others. Contribute to a culture in which everyone is encouraged to constantly learn (including from mistakes), to receive and give constructive feedback, and learn from and with each other.
•Actively participate in continuous learning through orientation, induction, mandatory training and identified educational/developmental opportunities.
•Support others to learn about the importance of engaging in occupations to be healthy and well.
•Engage in, apply and record relevant learning and development activities, and identify the impact and benefit of own learning for self and people who access services, their families and their carers
•Support patients, staff and carers to learn new techniques or re-gain skills related to daily living skills, self-regulation strategies, and use of equipment.
•Contribute to the development and evaluation of educational and vocational resources for students and individuals in our care.
•With support of more experienced colleagues, contribute to the education of others (including occupational therapy students).
•Demonstrate understanding of fundamental legal practices related to consent and the prevention of abuse.

Leadership:
•Act as a role model to promote the values of the profession.
•Identify priorities, manage time and resources effectively with guidance, as appropriate.
•Alert managers to resource issues which affect learning, development and performance, identify ways to resolve resource issues.
•Consider and propose alternative ways to complete tasks without compromising service quality, recognising and seeking to influence a change in culture where needed.
•Take some leadership responsibility for the work of others within a defined and supervised structure.

Evidence, Research and Development:
•With guidance from occupational therapists, to understand the importance of sourcing evidence to inform and apply into practice.
•Read different types of materials, summarise the key messages and discuss findings in relation to own work.
•Keep accurate records.
•Take part in pre-designed audit and quality improvement projects.
•Contribute to the collection of data for audit purposes as required.
•Take part in service evaluation activities.

Additional Responsibilities:
•Be able to utilise de-escalation techniques as required with patients who can present with challenging behaviour.
•Understand the importance of team-working to the delivery of high-quality service.
•Take part in service evaluation activities
•Ensure resources are available to deliver planned therapeutic activities.
•Assist in the monitoring and maintenance of the health, safety and security of self and others in work area.
•Responsible for the prevention and control of infection within the workplace.
•Report any incidents of harm or near misses, ensuring appropriate actions are taken to reduce the risk of reoccurrence.
•Demonstrate a commitment to continued personal development.
•Maintain confidentiality of patient information at all times.
•Demonstrate good verbal and non-verbal communication skills with patients, carers and families, and any relevant voluntary/third sector organisations as required.
•Actively promote diversity and maintain an environment where there is equal opportunity and commitment to anti-discriminatory, anti-racist and anti-stereotyping practices.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Options For Care as Head of Care. The role will support the management team across the organisation ensuring all aspects of direct care are delivered at the highest quality.

A key element is to ensure that evidence based clinical interventions are provided to service users, offering clinical leadership through direct support and role-modelling best practices. The post holder will work in collaboration with management and clinical teams to set standards, develop and enhance high-quality care provision.

The Head of Care will ensure that care supports and reflects individuals’ mental health and physical needs, is culturally appropriate, and is continuously evaluated to ensure compliance with professional guidance and current best practice.

In collaboration with the Operations Director, Head of Therapies and management teams, the postholder will support staff's continuous clinical and professional development through on-the-job coaching, mentoring and supervision.

You will also be required to lead on key clinical statutory responsibilities.

Ensure any absence of registered managers is adequately covered and provisions are in place to cover units.

The Head of Care will be an integral part of service development and delivery across Options for Care.

All staff of Options for Care are expected to embrace and uphold the mission, vision and values of the organisation.

MISSION, VISION AND VALUES
Mission
Realising potential
Vision
We offer best-practice interventions to enable personal recovery and well-being.
Values
The individual is at the heart of everything we do.
We inspire, stimulate and empower people to achieve and grow through compassionate, supportive and protective relationships.
We deliver and continuously evaluate high-quality service whilst respecting differences, promoting dignity and supporting the privacy of others.

Principle Responsibilities:
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Provide sound clinical leadership and support.
•Ensure that high standards of care delivery maintained and evaluated in line with local and national guidance.
•Provision of guidance and role modelling to all clinical staff through active involvement in care.
•Work closely and collaboratively with service users, their carers, and the multi-disciplinary team to assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and review care.
•To promote therapeutic relationships, respecting the uniqueness of each patient, acting in a non-judgmental manner, and promoting the rights of the individual at all times.
•Support and deliver specialist best practice individualised interventions to enable recovery and engagement with the service user group.
•Support and promote professional competence in colleagues.
•Developing and implementing audit tools in line with the current service needs.
•Participate in the management of the admission and discharge pathway.
•Ensure compliance with information governance practices and regulations.
•Participate in projects or research within the service as agreed with the Operations Director.

Clinical
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Support the assessment, planning and implementation of quality, best practice interventions and care, including health promotion.
•Participation in setting and monitoring quality standards, in line with current guidance practice and policy.
•Ensuring that the requirements of the Mental Capacity Act (2005), Mental Health Act (1983, amended 2007), safeguarding guidance and child protection legislation are observed, adhered to and implemented.
•Supporting effective engagement of service users, carers/relatives and other stakeholders with the service.
•Establishing therapeutic relationships with service users and implementing best practice therapeutic interventions with appropriate boundaries per the Nursing and Midwifery Council and Health and Care Professions Council Codes.
•Infection control lead for the organisation, delivering reports and audits as required.
•Supporting appropriate audit processes to ensure good practice.
•Take an active role in the assessment of new referrals in partnership with other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Professional
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Ensure that all practices are within the guidelines set out by the NMC, HCPC and other professional and regulatory bodies and are in accordance with Options for Care policies.
•Participation in the organisation’s appraisal process, which identifies personal development and training needs in conjunction with the appraiser, also related to organisational goals and objectives.
•Ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times in accordance with current data protection legislation, organisational policy and good practice.

Educational
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Support staff with their learning and development of their individualised learning and development plans.
•Provision of staff induction, mentorship, appraisal and clinical supervision to professional colleagues as appropriate.
•Update and maintain clinical expertise within recovery and wellbeing in keeping with national and organisation-wide initiatives to effectively contribute to service development.
•Attend statutory and mandatory training as necessary as specified by Options for Care Ltd.

Organisational
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Contributing and working towards the service/organisational aims and objectives.
•Respecting and promoting issues of spirituality, equality, diversity and rights in accordance with good practice and legislation.
•Leads in reviewing and monitoring clinical policies to ensure they are based on contemporary evidence.

Leadership
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Represent the service and the organisation by attending appropriate meetings (internal and external) aimed at developing effective working relationships with colleagues from other areas, which encourage joint working and the sharing of good practices.
•Lead key aspects of quality assurance to develop robust outcome indicators for clinical care and other aspects of clinical governance.
•Lead on/complete systematic investigations and write objective reports following the completion of investigations, advise recommendations and the next steps.
•Make decisions and work within a framework commensurate with their knowledge and competence and within their sphere of responsibility.
•Contribute to policy and practice changes arising from audits, complaints and serious untoward incidents.
•Develop and implement research projects related to mental health care and service evaluation in partnership with other team members.
•Ensure NMC and HCPC standards are upheld by all members of the team.

Communication
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Enhance development of therapeutic relationships amongst the team with service users and their families in a manner sensitive to cultural and religious needs and backgrounds.
•Determine care priorities and plans and implement service users’ care according to best practice and available resources.
•Maintain effective communication with all disciplines, agencies, carers and service users.
•Ensure students allocated to the clinical area are given appropriate teaching, support and guidance as per learning outcomes and objectives.
•Ensure clinical records are up to date and relevant.
•Monitor for trends, themes and patterns in incident reporting, ensuring lessons are learnt, shared and embedded.

Additional Responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
•Participate in regular management supervision with the Operations Director.
•Take responsibility for accessing professional clinical supervision.
•Attend meetings as necessary.

Qualifications & Training Required

In order to be considered for the role you will need to have the following:

•First Level Professional Clinical Qualification
•Currently registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
•Degree-level education or equivalent experience
•Mentorship and assessing qualification or equivalent.
•Professional and personal development related to rehabilitation and recovery

To apply please email your CV to hr@optionsforcare.net

Job Summary

Options for Care is looking to recruit an exceptional Mental Health Nurse passionate about working with individuals with severe and enduring mental health diagnoses.

Our two established hospitals, Montague Court and Dartmouth House, have successfully supported the needs of individuals with mental health diagnoses. We also have Orchard House, our recovery home, which provides a safe and supportive environment for individuals on their journey to mental health recovery. Furthermore, we eagerly anticipate the opening of Stanford Court, which is set to occur later this year.

Dartmouth House is a 16-bed male long-term complex care mental health inpatient unit based in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham.

Montague Court is an 18-bed male long-term complex care mental health inpatient unit based in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Stanford Court will be a 23-bed male mental health inpatient unit based in Highgate, Birmingham. This will consist of 19-bed enhanced care service and four self-contained recovery flats to enable assessment of daily living skills in preparation for discharge.

Orchard House is an 8-bed residential step-down service based in Erdington, Birmingham, which allows extension of the long-term complex care pathway.

We currently have vacancies at Montague Court and Dartmouth House.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will offer evidence-based nursing care, support, and advice to service users and their carers with mental health needs in a multidisciplinary setting while understanding and implementing the organisation's mission, vision, and values.

About us

Options for Care provides mental health recovery services in Birmingham. Our primary objective is to empower service users and help them realise their full potential through progressive improvements in their quality of life and a steady progression towards recovery, culminating in successful discharge. We are proud to share our unwavering commitment to our mission, vision, and values.

Mission

• Realising Potential

Vision

• We offer best-practice interventions to enable personal recovery and well-being.

Values

• The individual is at the heart of everything we do.

• We inspire, stimulate and empower people to achieve and grow through compassionate, supportive and protective relationships.
• We deliver and continuously evaluate high-quality service whilst respecting differences, promoting dignity and supporting the privacy of others.

At Options for Care, we understand the importance of delivering tailored and holistic support to our service users. Our dedicated team is committed to providing relationship-centred interventions that are grounded in evidence-based practices.

We strongly believe that our approach helps individuals lead fulfilling lives and attain their personal objectives. To ensure that we consistently meet our service users' needs, we use recognised assessment tools to track outcomes and make adjustments as needed. Our goal is to empower our service users to live in the least restrictive setting feasible while maintaining their dignity and independence.

Job responsibilities

In the capacity of a Mental Health Nurse, your primary responsibility will be to provide person-centred care to individuals seeking support on their journey towards community integration. Our care pathway is consistently evolving, and as such, we utilise the most effective outcome measures and assessment tools available.

Your role will involve providing quality, evidence-based nursing advice, support, and care to individuals with complex, severe, and enduring mental health needs, as well as their caregivers, in a multidisciplinary setting.

To be successful in this role, you will need to establish therapeutic relationships with service users and implement evidence-based therapeutic interventions within appropriate boundaries, as outlined by the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code.

You will be responsible for overseeing the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care within agreed parameters and have a comprehensive understanding of local and national policies and legislation that govern service provision.

To apply for the position of Mental Health Nurse, you must be a Registered Nurse, registered with the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council. You should possess a working knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and the changes brought about by the Mental Health Act 2007 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

Additionally, you should have a clear understanding of your responsibilities under the Care Programme Approach, Clinical Governance, and Child Protection Legislation. It is also essential that you demonstrate a commitment to ongoing professional development and strive to remain up-to-date with the latest developments and best practices in the field of mental health nursing.

In return, at Options for Care, we recognise the immense value of our team members. Our staff is the foundation of our success, and we appreciate their exceptional dedication to our clients. We prioritise employee development and are committed to supporting our staff in every stage of their career journey. Our workplace is warm and welcoming, with necessary assistance and supervision to ensure a positive work environment.

Our comprehensive staff health benefits package further demonstrates our commitment to the well-being of our staff. Our commitment to staff well-being is further evidenced by our well-being risk assessments, which are utilised to create personalised support plans for each employee. We take all necessary steps to ensure that our staff are well taken care of professionally and personally.

At Options for Care, we pride ourselves on creating a safe and healthy work environment that promotes staff productivity and longevity. That is why we offer competitive compensation, including an annual cost of living pay increase for all our staff members, in addition to an incremental pay system tied to our appraisal process, which is our way of showing gratitude for their exceptional dedication to our service users.

We are passionate about creating a positive work environment that fosters growth, development, and well-being. Join us at Options for Care and be part of a team that is dedicated to your success!

If you are interested in applying for the role, please email hr@optionsforcare.net

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse (registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council)

Desirable

• Evidence of appropriate post- graduate learning
• Assessor and Mentorship qualification

Experience

Essential

• Working Knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and changes with Mental Health Act 2007.
• Working knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
• Understanding of their responsibilities under the Care programme Approach, Clinical Governance and Child Protection Legislation.

Desirable

• Experience within a mental health rehabilitative environment

Skills

Essential

• Basic IT Skills.
• Active Listening Skills.
• Effective Communication, both verbal and non-verbal.
• Written Skills.

Desirable

• Clinical Leadership.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Flexible.
• Personal Integrity.
• Resilience in dealing with emotive service user issues.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).