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Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing. Special interests in development of psychologically-informed interventions in general nursing practice.

Offering services in training, audit, incident investigation and staff management strategies including recruitment and retention.

Hospital manager of a locked rehabilitation environment. Responsible for reporting to regulators and commissioners, financial management, staff management and oversight of nursing and psychological intervention.

Senior nurse in a rehabilitation hospital with responsibilities for facility and staff management.

Employed by the organisation to provide continuity of intervention to clients undergoing Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.

Senior nurse in a team of qualified nurses with managerial responsibilities.

Llanelli, Wales, United Kingdom

Delivery of specialist Cognitive Behaviour Therapy focused intervention at primary care, assessment and management of a caseload referral form General Practice.

Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

My role was to appropriate effective interventions and treatments topeople with severe and enduring mental health needs, and their carersand their supporters in the community, enabling and assisting them tomeet daily health, social care and wellbeing needs, in line with personal recovery goals,and facilitating engagement with mainstream services. I have also been required to provideclinical leadership and supervision to team members.I have been required to work with some challenging individuals who suffer with a variety of mental health difficulties, ranging from psychosis to emotional instability. My work has also required me to work with people struggling with substance misuse issues and have a dual diagnosis. Managing my caseload as a care coordinator, I have been responsible for the on-going assessment, planning delivery and review of activities and interventions against identified health, social care and wellbeing needs.A major component of my work in this role has been of the front-line assessments of individuals being referred to secondary mental health services by a number of services including GP's and acute hospitals, such as the University Hospital Bristol or Southmead Hospital via their own psychiatry liaison departments. This has followed on from my earlier experience of triage, where I was responsible for allocating front line assessments following receipt and triage, to ensure the urgency requirement for the individual and referrer is met. This is work that I would like to continue pursuing and an area where I would like to continue enhancing my skills.

Bristol, United Kingdom

I have been working in the Triage Team based at Callington Road hospital, giving me a fast and thorough overview of and introduction to community based mental health services in Bristol and surrounding areas.In Triage as in any Band 6 community role, rapid clinically sound decisions are required on a daily basis, focusing on risk reduction and accountability, as well as attempting to achieve the best possible service outcome for our service users.

Carmarthen, South Wales

To deliver some the latest and best evidence based therapies to individuals suffering with a range of conditions including Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder and associated disorders.Therapies include Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and other evidence based interventions for people in both community and inpatient settings. The service is led under strict requirements for high levels of supervision and support, as well as a strong emphasis on team working. The post also requires a liaison with a variety of statutory and non-statutory bodies and requires all members of the team to work as part of an MDT.

Swansea, United Kingdom

To ensure the holistic needs of the individual are met from a health, psychological and social perspective.To care manage patients who are cared for under secondary mental health services in a community setting. This includes monitoring the mental state of individuals suffering with symptoms of mental illness, as well as monitoring the prescribed treatment programme they may be undergoing in their community residence. This may also entail delivering the treatment and monitoring at their home address, including intramuscular medication. Primarily, it is a role of advocacy and support of vulnerable individuals. This includes assisting individuals in attending their appointments and commitments that ensure their ongoing holistic health. The care co-ordinator may also be required to put forward the individual's questions and requests to their Consultant Psychiatrist, to ensure that they become part of the care and treatment being delivered to them in the community setting by a range of resources.

Swansea, United Kingdom

To provide holistic and recovery focused care for the service users on my ward, by ensuring that their needs are met. Firstly to use part 2 of the Mental Health Measure, and to help the service users identify what their definition of recovery is, as set out in their Care and Treatment Plan. With the involvement of the service user, this document will help staff and service users identify their areas of need, and provide a written document for which the service user may take ownership and joint responsibility for.It is also necessary to recognise triggers and stressors leading to the deterioration of mental state of the service users in my area. As a challenging behaviour ward, we are often called upon to produce a low stimulus environment conducive to recovery. We may also be required to intervene in times of distress which may precipitate challenging behaviour including violence and aggression, deliberate self harm and suicidal / parasuicidal behaviour. This often requires de-escalation skills, the use of the therapeutic bond and last of all, pharmaceutical intervention.Psychotherapies are also a part of the service delivered on Ward 5. Emotional coping based therapies, particularly involving service users with borderline or emotionally unstable personality traits are commonly used and a part of the qualified nursing role on ward 5. It is important that this is delivered using a team approach and therefore group supervision is scheduled for on a weekly basis, strengthening the team based approach on ward 5.Finally, responsibilities include ensuring that all forms of assessment and monitoring are maintained, particularly within my allocated service user group. This ensures regular one to one time for service users and their named nurse, to continue to identify possible obstacles exist to recovery, but also to identify strengths and protective factors that will facilitate it.

Bn Nursing (Mental Health), Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing, 1St Class Hons

International Baccalaureate

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