Abby OLUDIPE

Key Responsibilities:

· Conduct comprehensive biopsychosocial and risk assessments for individuals in acute mental health crisis across community and hospital settings

· Lead on urgent mental health assessments within Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team and Mental Health Liaison Team, including A&E and medical wards

· Formulate and implement individualised care plans, ensuring safe alternatives to hospital admission where appropriate

· Participate in gatekeeping processes to determine suitability for home treatment versus inpatient admission

· Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams (MDT) including psychiatrists, AMHPs, social workers, and acute hospital staff

· Undertake Mental Health Act (MHA) assessments support, including coordination with Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs)

· Deliver short-term intensive interventions aimed at stabilisation, relapse prevention, and recovery.

· Provide clinical leadership and supervision to junior staff and students during shifts.

· Maintain accurate and contemporaneous clinical documentation using electronic patient record systems (e.g., Lorenzo)

· Liaise with external agencies (e.g., GP, Samaritans, substance misuse services) to support holistic care and discharge planning

· Conduct risk management, including safeguarding, suicide risk assessment, and crisis intervention

· Facilitate safe discharge planning, ensuring continuity of care and appropriate follow-up

• Delivered psychoeducation to families, enhancing their understanding of mental health conditions.
• Provided counselling services for the better management of anxiety and depression symptoms.
• Advocated on behalf of patients' rights, promoting equal access to necessary resources and services.
• Implemented cognitive behavioural therapy sessions for improved patient outcomes.

● Screening referrals to the service and priorities’ referrals effectively and safely

● Provide holistic psychosocial assessment, and subsequent planning and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment.

● Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliance.

● Undertake risk management, practice safely and according to individual service user needs.

● Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.

● Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individuals for individual patients.

● Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective, and integrated manner.

• Understanding the initial clinical assessment and formulation using a range of both specialist and generic tools.

• Making autonomous judgements about their own caseload appropriate to their scope of practice.

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate care in negotiation with service users.

• Ensuring the appropriate range of therapeutic interventions are used to support the mental health, physical health, and social care needs of the service user.

• High levels of physical skill in the delivery of clinical interventions appropriate to role, including using medical devices and administering treatments.

• Provide specialist advice to service users and carers in area of specialism.

• Clinical assessment and presentation to others within the team and appropriate external agencies including GP.

• Deliver high-quality, person-centred nursing care to patients admitted with acute mental health conditions, including psychosis, mood disorders, and crisis presentations.

•Undertake comprehensive mental state examination (MSE) and ongoing clinical assessments to monitor changes in patients mental health.

•Conduct and regularly update risk assessments (Self-harm, suicide, aggression, vulnerability) and implement appropriate risk management strategies.

•Develop, implement, and evaluate individualised care plans in collaboration with patients, carers, and the multidisciplinary team.

•Administer and manage medication safely in line with NMC guidelines, monitoring effectiveness and side effects.