Registered Mental Health Nurse developing strategic treatment plans to meet personalised needs. Communicates and builds rapport well to identify patient concerns and implement required support. Rigorous in risk assessment and emergency response for safe, attentive patient care.
· Register patients on a system in the appropriate service following trust standard operating policies.
· Liaise with colleagues in providing a quality service to our patients by ensuring all referrals are registered within the timescales specified in PAC procedures.
· Being able to identify those referrals requiring triage and to escalate delays or problems in the triage system to Supervisors.
· Communicate with clinical
· Communicate in a manner that is consistent with Trust policies and procedures whilst presenting a positive image of the service.
· Maintaining a robust approach to data quality and patient confidentiality whilst handling confidential, complex and sensitive patient clinical information on a daily basis.
· Act responsibly as a team member, reporting problems as they arise.
· Maintain a high level of concentration at all times due to the varied number of tasks required to deliver the range of services provided by the PAC.
· Undertake any other reasonable duty, which is
· Be aware of and work towards the Trusts strategic goals.
· Contribute to the control of risk and report identified issues immediately, using the Trust Incident reporting system for any incident, accident or near miss involving patients, service users, carers, staff, contractors or members of the public.
· Be aware of responsibilities by attending the Trust Mandatory Training and Induction Programme ensuring all Mandatory training is kept up to date.
· Adhere to all Trust policies relating to Information Governance and patient confidentiality, implementing measures to safeguard information within everyday working practise.
· Communicate with a wide range of people, including patients, carers, GPs, clinicians, work colleagues and other professionals on a range of matters on a daily basis. This communication could be verbal, written or electronic.
· Liaise with clinical teams and clinical managers for referrals requiring clinical triage and taking appropriate action as directed upon receipt of the triage decision.
· Ensure that all telephone enquiries to the PAC are handled politely and sympathetically in a professional manner, ensuring that all messages are passed on to the appropriate person in a timely and accurate way.
· Deal with incoming calls through the electronic call handling system; communicating information to patients, relatives, and the general public in a calm professional manner consistent with Trust policies and procedures, whilst presenting a positive image of the service.
· Send appointment notifications and reminders to patients using appropriate communication methods as outlined in the operational policy, including e-mail, letter and text messaging via the clinical system.
· Escalate patient complaints to the Supervisor if the patient's issues cannot be resolved.
· Manage challenging conversations with patients when informing them of necessary appointment cancellations.
· Review incoming referrals for data completeness and to provide feedback to referrers where data is incomplete or the referral is inappropriate and does not meet service criteria.
· Register patients demographic details and record referral information accurately on the Trust’s clinical system, co-ordinating the movement of referrals through the patient pathway.
· Update patient demographics on PAS system when given new information by patients.
· Provide training and mentoring to other team colleagues as required.