NEWCASTLE, NORTH TYNESIDE and
NORTHUMBERLAND
MENTAL HEALTH NHS TRUST
PROFILE OF LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
NEWCASTLE INTEGRATED OLDER PEOPLE’S
SERVICE
COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
PLACEMENT
GIBSIDE CPN TEAM
CASTLESIDE CPN TEAM
AKENSIDE CPN TEAM
Placement Checklist
Section one (Joint Induction)
PLACEMENT CHECKLIST
Completed
Yes No Introduction to Team Secretary, Admin Support, Tracker board. Fire procedure Travel arrangements e.g. car insurance, expense claims. Dress code policy Personal safety awareness Smoking policy Meals/catering CPN General Protocols – hours of work, sickness, reporting etc. Use of student room/study time Expectations of learner regarding responsibility for competencies.
Learning opportunities discussed/potential resource visits common to all localities.
Educational Programme
Signed ………………………………… Mentor Date
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Signed ………………………………… Student Date
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Section two (to be completed by individual mentors)
PLACEMENT CHECKLIST
Completed
Yes No Introduction to MDT members. Orientation to unit area etc. Orientation to CPN office i.e. policy files etc/complaints procedure
Explanation of telephone answering, taking messages. Use of tracker board.
Learning opportunities within individual team including specific resources discussed.
Signed ………………………………… Mentor Date ……………………….
Signed ………………………………… Student Date
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Newcastle Integrated Older People’s Service
About Newcastle Integrated Older People’s Service
The Newcastle Integrated Older People‟s Service is both innovative and comprehensive in providing services centred on the older person and their health needs.
Strong multi-disciplinary teams are well established and the unified management structure and proximity of services means that cross boundary working and collaboration is positively encouraged to the benefit of the patient. The service has strong research and educational links with the Institute for the Health of the Elderly.
The service encompasses assessment, treatment and rehabilitation of both mental health and physical health conditions.
Services provided are assessment and treatment of mental health problems in inpatient wards and day hospitals, continuing mental health care in community nursing homes and a community psychiatric nursing service for older people. There is also psychiatric liaison service to the acute hospitals trust and a service for younger people with dementia.
Stroke rehabilitation is carried out in a purpose built ward and general rehabilitation in another three wards. A day unit provides rapid assessment and treatment and has strong links with the community focussed stroke discharge team, orthopaedic discharge team and elderly resource team.
Continuing care for physically frail patients is provided in the community with 60 designated beds in 3 private nursing homes, which are supported by a designated team of professionals.
There are also a number of specialist nursing roles within the service for example Tissue Viability Nurse Specialist, Rehabilitation Liaison Nurse, Specialist Stroke Nurse with other roles being planned or in developmental stages.
Location of Services
Newcastle General Hospital Site
Ward/Department Function Beds/Places Nurse
Registration
Castleside Ward Assess/Treat MH 20 RMN/EN (M)
Akenside Ward Assess/Treat MH 18 RMN/EN (M)
Gibside Ward Assess/Treat MH 24 RMN/EN (M)
Castleside Day Assess/Treat MH 25 RMN/EN (M)
Akenside Day Assess/Treat MH 25 RMN/EN (M)
Gibside Day Assess/Treat MH 25 RGN/EN
Cherryburn Stroke Rehab 20 RGN/EN
Lanercost Rehabilitation 18 RGN/EN
Wallington Rehabilitation 18 RGN/EN
Belsay Day Unit Assess/Treat 30 RGN/EN
Royal Victoria Infirmary
Function Nurse Ward/Department Beds/Places
Registration
Ward 40 Rehabilitation 24 RGN/EN
Community Homes
Function Nurse Ward/Department Beds/Places
Registration
Silverdale Continuing Care 24 RMN/EN (M)
MH
Ashgrove Continuing Care 36 RMN/EN (M)
MH
Dene Lodge Continuing Care 28 RMN/EN (M)
MH
Nursing Opportunities
For newly qualified nurses and those wishing to return to the NHS we have an excellent support and development programme which can be individually tailored. This includes structured preceptorship objectives and planned rotation between clinical areas.
For more experienced nurses there are career paths to ward management or specialist nursing roles. Staff have access to internal development via the Trust learning and development centre and higher education modules at UNN.
The service aims to promote family friendly working and
flexibility in line the overall objectives of the Trust.
Community Psychiatric Nursing Service
The Old Age Community Psychiatric Nursing (CPN) Service comprises of three separate teams providing a CPN Service to three sectors across the city, and the west of North Tyneside. The three teams are:- Castleside, Akenside and Gibside. See map overleaf for specific sector areas.
There is both a mixture of skills and grades throughout each service which form the multi-disciplinary team for each sector.
Whilst each team is very similar to one another there are naturally some slight operational differences as a result of the differing sectors and multi-disciplinary teams they service.
Each team provides psychiatric liaison to three Community Resource Teams throughout the city.
NEWCASTLE, NORTH TYNESIDE & NORTHUMBERLAND
MENTAL HEALTH TRUST
NEWCASTLE INTEGRATED OLDER PEOPLE’S SERVICES
COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC NURSING SERVICE
EAST – AKENSIDE NORTH – GIBSIDE WEST – CASTLESIDE DAVE BELL SUE BROTHERTON CPN G GRADE SONIA BRADLEY CLINICAL NURSE EXT 22350 CPN G GRADE LEADER EXT 22554 I GRADE MALCOLM EXT 23303/22558 STEPHENSON DEBBIE BUDZINSKI OR AIR CALL CPN F GRADE CPN G GRADE EXT 23275 EXT 23880 ANDREA EMBLETON CAROL RAINE CHRISTINE BYRNE CPN G GRADE CPN F GRADE CPN F GRADE EXT 23303/22818 EXT 23275 EXT 23880 JEANNIE HELEN SWINBURNE STRONACH DEBBIE ROBERTS CPN F GRADE CPN G GRADE B GRADE EXT 22836 EXT 23303 COMMUNITY SUPPORT WORKER JOANNE TIPTON SARAH GRAINGER EXT 23275 CPN E GRADE CPN G GRADE
EXT 22554 EXT 23303
JANET McCABE LIAISON SERVICE LYNNE SMITH
B GRADE CPN E GRADE
COMMUNITY SUPPORT MICK COPPOCK EXT 22817
WORKER EXT 28808 OR AIR CALL
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SWITCHBOARD COMMUNITY
SARAH HOLLAMBY SUPPORT WORKER
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SECRETARY
COMMUNITY PSYCHIATRIC NURSING SERVICE
PHILOSOPHY OF CARE
The purpose of the Old Age Psychiatry, Community Psychiatric Nursing Service (CPNS), is to make available the skills and knowledge of experienced psychiatric nurses working in a community setting to assist elderly people with mental health problems and their personal and professional carers.
To provide a high quality service, we believe that the CPN team should be accessible and adequately resourced in terms of manpower, education, supervision and support.
We believe the client group has a right to an unbiased, non-judgemental, non-prejudicial service, which provides a nursing assessment based on individualised needs and integrates closely with both the hospital based Multidisciplinary team and an extended range of community agencies, to provide the maximum beliefs to their quality of life.
We also believe that the needs of carers/families are of great importance and will be recognised through assessment, information sharing, and education, support, continuity, accessibility and prompt responses.
We believe the nurse-client relationship should be built on honesty, trust, confidentiality and clear purpose.
We believe in and uphold the rights of older people. They have the right to retain choices, to maintain dignity and independence and to be supported by people who have appropriate attitudes, education and ability.
(Revised, March 2000)
ROLE AND FUNCTION OF CPN Brief description
ROLE
The Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) works essentially as a member of a multi-disciplinary team and provides the psychiatric nursing component to the care of the elderly mentally ill patient in a variety of settings:
1. The patients home
2. A day hospital or day centre
3. An out-patient clinic
4. A health centre or GP surgery
5. Care settings
The CPN will also be involved in close liaison and collaboration with other care giving agencies such as social services.
FUNCTION
Concerned with:
1. Prevention of mental ill health by participating in health education
programmes.
2. Psychiatric nursing assessment of elderly people in the community who
are referred by the psychiatrist.
3. Intervention and nursing treatment in the community to elderly people who
may not need in-patient or day hospital care.
4. After care of elderly people discharged from within out service including
discharge planning.
5. Provision of advice on psychiatric nursing matters to other professional
colleagues.
6. Carer support and guidance.
Within out CPN Service we have a Liaison Nurse Team covering RVI, FRH, NGH and Walkergate Hospitals.
CPN‟s also work within the Memory Clinic and Lewis Team (information available).
MEETING OBJECTIVES
Dr.N Tower Tel: 2563300 Achieving your objectives during your placement will be discussed with your mentor Gibside Offices Fax: 2195065 within the first week of your allocation.
Your objectives will be regularly discussed, and your progress recorded.
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ROLE OF MENTOR Fairbairn Castleside To provide a focal point for you to relate to, to act as a facilitator in completing Offices objectives, monitor progress and provide feedback on levels of attainment, provide Tel: supervision and liaise with course tutor. 2736666 Fax:
ROLE OF STUDENT 2195053 You must take responsibility for time management to achieve objectives, seek advice and guidance relating to any problem/risk identified or potential. Agree supervision under defined model and participate in regular sessions.
HOME VISITS Tel: 2563217 Dr.D Robinson Akenside Offices Fax: 2195028 It is important to note that CPN‟s have no right of access to the person‟s home.
You must maintain respect for the person and their property. Adopt a non-
Dr.R Barber judgemental approach, people live in many different ways and their environment may not meet your standards, the house may be dirty or smelly but this may have always Akenside been acceptable to the person.
Offices
Remember you are a guest in their home, be courteous and polite. Use the person‟s Tel: full name unless you have permission, do not be over familiar. 2563274
Fax: It is not a social call but it is sometimes appropriate to accept tea or coffee to assess 2195028 ability or help establish rapport.
As a student visiting a person‟s home you are representing the Hospital Trust and must behave in a professional manner at all times.