Bukola Bello

Female Psychiatric Intensive Care unit (FPICU)

• Coordinated discharge pathways to facilitate aftercare and community support for patients.
• Risk assessment formulation, care planning, and coordinating person- centered care of patients.
• Formulating, delivering, and reviewing care plans based on evidence-based interventions.
• Plan and coordinate effective discharge pathways, ensuring appropriate aftercare and community support arrangements.
• Coordinating care reviews & CPA meetings, involving families and careers where appropriate.
• Leading and coordinating shifts, supervising junior staff & HCAs and ensuring safe delegation and practice.
• Administer medications in accordance with 7 Rights of Medication Administration and Trust policies.
• Continuously reviewing risks such as violence, self‑harm, absconding, and vulnerability.
• Responding quickly to escalating behaviour or mental state changes.
• Facilitate safe, smooth, and person-centered admission processes.
• Contributed to ward rounds with MDT, providing crucial updates and treatment plans to support patient recovery.
• Delivering therapeutic intervention, grounding, safety planning, psychoeducation and emotional regulation support.
• Using verbal and non-verbal strategies to reduce agitation.
• Safe restraint & seclusion procedures (used only when necessary and in line with MHA Code of Practice).
• Incident reporting & post‑incident review and ensuring learning, safety, and reflective practice maintained.
• Supporting patients in understanding their legal Mental Health Act (MHA) compliance, understanding Sections 2, 3, 5(2), 136, consent, rights, and right to appeals.
• Capacity assessment & documentation, applying Mental Capacity Act (MCA) appropriately.
• Patients Advocacy by ensuring patients' rights, dignity, and involvement in care planning.
• Fostered strong teamwork with multidisciplinary professionals to ensure holistic treatment., Working with psychiatrists, psychologists, OTs, social workers and ensuring holistic care.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary professionals to ensure comprehensive and holistic treatment for patients., Working with psychiatrists, psychologists, OTs, social workers and ensuring holistic care.
• Provides accurate record‑keeping, risk assessments, care plans, MHA paperwork, incident reports.
• Audit & evidence‑based practice and contributing to quality improvement.
• Taking charge of ward in absence of ward manager or deputy.
• Audit & evidence‑based practice and contributing to quality improvement.
• Taking charge of ward in absence of ward manager or deputy.

Flexible Worker Across Oxleas Acute Inpatients Ward Including Forensic Units.

• Ensured clean and safe environment for patients, enhancing overall well-being.
• Coordinated discharge planning processes, facilitating successful home-based recoveries post-hospitalisation.
• Maintaining 1:1 enhance care, intermittent observations for high‑risk patients and therapeutic engagement.
• Coordinated discharge planning processes, enabling successful home-based recoveries after hospitalisation.
• Participated in ward rounds with doctors providing essential updates about patient conditions.
• Prioritised patient welfare, providing comfort, reassurance and support to reduce anxiety and distress.
• Delivered personal care focused on individual needs, preserving patient dignity and self-esteem.
• Supported patients in understanding their legal Mental Health Act (MHA) compliance, understanding Sections 2, 3, 5(2), 136, consent, rights, and right to appeals.
• Administered medications in accordance with 7 Rights of Medication Administration and Trust policies.
• Coordinated smooth running of shifts, ensuring effective team communication and prioritisation.
• Carried out safe, secure manual handling, promoting independence whilst assisting patients with mobility.
• Provided personal care tailored to individual needs, fostering patient dignity and self-esteem.
• Supported patients in understanding their legal Mental Health Act (MHA) compliance, understanding Sections 2, 3, 5(2), 136, consent, rights, and right to appeals.
• Maintained clean and safe environment for all patients, contributing to overall well-being.
• Flexible Worker Across Oxleas Mental Health ward including Forensic Services.
• Provided high-quality person-centered support and received consistently positive patient feedback.

National Psychosis Unit (Fitzmary2)

• Identify, assess, and manage risks including self-harm, suicide, violence, and safeguarding concerns.
• Implement and review risk management plans to ensure patient and staff safety.
• Respond effectively to crisis situations using de-escalation and therapeutic interventions.
• Provide rapid response to mental health crises, including acute distress or behavioural escalation.
• Maintaining 1:1 enhance care, intermittent observations for high‑risk Patients and therapeutic engagement.
• Deliver one-to-one and group-based interventions, including psychoeducation and emotional support.
• Monitor for side effects, therapeutic response, and medication compliance, escalating concerns appropriately.
• Administer medications in accordance with 7 Rights of Medication Administration and Trust policies.
• Participated in ward rounds with MDT, providing essential updates, treatment plans for Patients recovery support.
• Apply communication techniques such as motivational interviewing and de-escalation strategies.
• Act as patient advocate, ensuring dignity, respect, and rights are upheld.
• Support Patients in understanding their rights under frameworks such as Mental Health Act (MHA) and Mental Capacity Act (MCA).
• Delivery of bite-size training for colleagues on most common physical health awareness and escalation.
• Liaise with medical teams to address any deterioration in physical health.
• Maintaining 1:1 enhance care, intermittent observations for high‑risk Patients and therapeutic engagement.
• Supported Patients in understanding their rights under Mental Health Act (MHA) and Mental Capacity Act (MCA) frameworks to promote informed decision-making.
• Ensure records meet NMC and Trust standards.
• Delivery of bite-size training for colleagues on most common physical health awareness and escalation.
• Supported Patients in developing relapse prevention strategies and crisis plans to enhance their coping mechanisms.
• Work closely with psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists
• Patients through relapse prevention and crisis planning.

Work closely with psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists

National Psychosis Unit (Fitzmary2).

• Monitor patients closely for side effects and adverse reactions, escalating concerns promptly.
• Facilitated person-centered admission processes, ensuring safety and comfort for patients.
• Planned and coordinated discharge pathways, securing appropriate aftercare and community support for patients.
• Perform detailed risk assessments to identify safeguarding concerns and potential risks.
• Implement appropriate risk management strategies to maintain safe therapeutic environment.
• Facilitate safe, smooth, and person-centered admission processes.
• Plan and coordinate effective discharge pathways, ensuring appropriate aftercare and community support arrangements.
• High-dependency mental health setting.
• Build therapeutic relationships through one-to-one interactions.
• Maintaining 1:1 enhance care, intermittent observations for high‑risk patients and therapeutic engagement.
• Maintaining 1:1 enhance care, intermittent observations for high‑risk patients and therapeutic engagement.
• Facilitate and support group and individual therapeutic sessions.
• Monitor and report changes in patients' physical health to relevant multidisciplinary teams.
• Promote respectful, supportive, and recovery-focused care environment.
• Promoted supportive and recovery-focused care environment, enhancing patient engagement and wellbeing.
• National Psychosis Unit

National Psychosis Unit (Fitzmary2).

• Contribute to care planning discussions under supervision.
• Monitor and report adverse reactions or changes in patient condition to senior staff.
• Prepared patients for discharge by coordinating aftercare arrangements and ensuring accurate documentation.
• Support basic physical health observations (e.g., vital signs, blood sugar monitoring).
• Assist in identifying potential risks such as self-harm, aggression, or safeguarding concerns.
• Recognise and report safeguarding concerns.
• Help prepare patients for discharge by assisting with aftercare arrangements and documentation.
• Provided one-to-one interactions and emotional support to enhance patient wellbeing.
• Encourage engagement in activities that promote social interaction, emotional wellbeing, and recovery.
• Facilitated group and individual therapeutic sessions to promote engagement and recovery.
• Promote awareness of link between mental and physical health.
• Contribute to holistic approach to patient care.
• Work alongside psychiatrists, psychologists, occupational therapists, and social workers.
• Maintain awareness of ward safety protocols and contribute to safe environment and escalate concerns promptly to registered nurses.
• Report any deterioration or concerns to nursing team.
• Ensure documentation is completed in line with Trust policies and confidentiality standards.
• Actively engages in training, supervision, and reflective practice.
• Work within scope of practice of nursing apprentice at all times.
• Attending university once weekly for theoretical education in nursing and scope of practice.
• Promote dignity, respect, and patient rights.
• Support patients in understanding their care and treatment.
• Support patients in understanding their care and treatment.

Oxleas House Mental Health Psychiatric Liaison Team/ Female Acute Impatient Ward (Avery Ward)

• Provided personal care and medication administration support for 18 patients in busy acute setting, ensuring accurate and timely completion of all tasks.
• Providing care and support to patients waiting in assessment area for inpatient beds.
• Escorted patients for fresh air breaks, ensuring their safety and comfort., monitoring of their mental state, doing 1:1 enhanced observations and intermittent observations before their assessment outcomes.
• Handled referrals from general ward, ICU, UCC, and A&E for patients experiencing mental health crises.
• Welcomed patients, performing initial assessments to determine their requirements for evaluation. as initial assessment to patient's awaiting assessment by PLN.
• Working in Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) where support patients who are struggling with severe psychotic symptoms with 1:1 enhanced observations within eyesight and harm's length.
• Engaged in professional development activities, attending training sessions and continuing education courses to enhance skills and knowledge as healthcare assistant.

Provided flexible support for NHS Trust's operations

• Supporting patients independence, encouraging self-care, mobility, continence management.
• Assisting with walking, repositioning, using equipment safely. Assisting with meals, monitoring intake, supporting independence.
• Conducting 1:1 enhanced care level of observations, intermittent, noticing changes and reporting to registered nurse.
• Conducted 1:1 enhanced care observations, identifying changes and reporting to registered nurse to ensure timely interventions.
• Increased comfort levels with personal care duties such as bathing and dressing.
• Responded to basic concerns and escalated safeguarding-related issues to qualified personnel.
• Maintained cleanliness and tidiness in patient areas, ensuring equipment was cleaned.
• Supporting patients' independence, encouraging self-care, mobility, continence management.
• Collaborated with team members to ensure efficient patient care, attending handovers, contributing to ward discussions, assisting nurses.
• Facilitated physical activity through exercise assistance, contributing to improved overall health of patients.
• Responding to basic concerns, escalating any safeguarding-related concerns to most qualified person, handing simple queries and escalating concerns as appropriate.
• Encouraged mental stimulation through conversation, reading, and games, enhancing cognitive function in patients.
• Actively listened to patients' concerns thus creating comforting environment.