Sallyanne Ring

• Specialist in assessment & management of mental health presentations in a remote primary care setting.
• Assessment of risk, expert in patient safety & safeguarding.
• collaborative management plans with appropriate signposting & referral pathways.
• Provided crisis intervention and support, de-escalating situations and offering immediate therapeutic solutions.
• Utilised a person-centred approach to planning and delivering daily care with patients.
• Developed and implemented strategies for managing patients' physical and emotional needs, promoting holistic well-being.
• Provided empathetic and non-judgemental support, building trust and rapport with patients.

• Expert on the Mental Health Advice Line (8am -8pm 7 days a week) for a leading Employee assistance program.
• Offering telephone support, advice & signposting for members needing as required contact.
• Wellbeing and mental health guidance. Including stress and anxiety management.
• Responding to members calls in the allotted time frame.
• Maintaining confidentially and accurate record keeping.
• Liaison with Administration Team and wider organisation.

• Assessment of referrals using Dialogue + identifying mental health and wellbeing needs for a diverse population of people from 18 upwards, signpost to suitable Services within Open Mental Health.
• Remote working.
• Referral to specialist Services for ADHD and Autism.
• Liaison with partners in Open Mental Health, including GP's & the voluntary sector.
• Escalating referrals to Secondary Mental Health Service when required.
• Close working with safeguarding when required.
• Delivery of brief interventions including stabilisation skills, emotional skills and behavioural activation for depression.
• Supervising & mentoring junior staff and students.
• Specialist interest in Neurodiversity. Delivering psychosocial approaches pre & post diagnosis.

• Triaging referrals to Community Mental Health Team.
• Complete holistic assessments of need for those referred to Service.
• Duty worker including medication dispensing.
• Supervision & continuous development of band 5 & student nurses.
• Collaborative working with multidisciplinary healthcare specialists.
• Devising, implement and modify plans of care defining patient outcome goals and communicate with patients and caregivers to drive patient advocacy objectives.

• Caseload Management of Service Users with mental Health conditions in the community
• Recognised and resolved potential areas of conflict for continued best practices in patient care.
• Communicated and collaborated with patients to plan, assess and evaluate effective care programmes.
• Strictly followed medicines management requirements to consistently meet professional standards.
• Completed accurate, detailed patient records to carefully monitor progress and improvements.
• Oversaw, trained and mentored student and junior nursing staff. Including support & contact via Teams during the pandemic.
• Good working knowledge of the Mental Health Act.
• Service development for those presenting with self harm & emotional dysregulation
• Triage referrals, assessment and care planning.
• Established the interface meeting with partners in Talking Therapies in order to improve patient experience.
• Established 'Nurse Led Clinic' approach within local GP Surgeries offering assessment and delivering brief psychological interventions within Practices.
• Delivering brief interventions for Neurodiverse people with co morbidities.

From 2018 to 2020 I worked as a Bank Nurse for Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Trust on an ad hoc basis within the inpatient wards. Including female acute care and older adults.

In 2019 I spent time working within a prison setting locally and police custody suite.

• Specialist assessment and treatment for substance misuse patients within community.
• Including Dual Diagnosis patients and those requiring CPA
• Specialist knowledge of substitute prescribing & safety considerations.
• Harm minimisation, relapse prevention & naltrexone training for service users.
• Co lead in Service user therapeutic groups.
• Lead in Rapid Prescribing & Prolific Offender pilot with Probation Service & Police.
• Participation in Child Protection, MAPPA & Serious Case Reviews.

• Caseload Management for patients with severe and enduring mental illness in the community
• CBT and anxiety skills work
• Risk assessment
• Working with families & carers.

• Management of on site dispensing day service for substance misuse community patients.
• Caseload Management of complex individuals with co morbidities.
• Group work using relapse prevention and harm minimisation.
• BBV counselling & testing.
• Vaccinations.
• Homeless Team Liaison.
• Specialist pregnancy substance misuse advisor

• Shift Co Ordinator
• One to One therapeutic interventions with inpatients on a mixed sex Mental Health Unit
• Medication management
• Specialist assessment
• Specialist Eating Disorders interventions with young people
• Discharge planning

• Specialist assessment & treatment of men detained in a Special Hospital under the Mental Health Act
• Shift Co Ordinator
• Specialist Care planning, risk assessment & interventions.
• Pre admission Assessments within other secure settings, the Courts and Prisons.