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Here are some quick links to policies that you might find useful. Supporting health and wellbeing (HR07) This policy is aimed at supporting attendance consistently and fairly across Mersey Care.…
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Our strategy is enabled by a number of other supporting strategic plans
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Useful Documents
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The recruitment team at our Trust specialises in permanent, fixed term and temporary appointments to the Trust. The recruitment team supports this process through: Advertising…
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The Green Light Toolkit - Overview and Trust Actions To support the application of reasonable adjustments within adult mental health services, the Green Light Toolkit was first published in 2004 by…
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Employability programmes are specific industry driven schemes that include an element of training and work experience, for people to develop essential skills that lead to increased opportunities of…
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What is a Professional Nurse Advocate? The Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) programme was launched in March 2021 with the intention of improving the patient experience through enhanced quality of…
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Health and Wellbeing Facilitators Our team of Health and Wellbeing Facilitators are in post to support you and your wellbeing. The team are part of our in-house Occupational Health and Wellbeing…
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MC01 Overarching Mental Capacity Act
The purpose of this corporate policy and procedure is to provide support and guidance for those working within the framework of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. This policy reviews and replaces the Trust-wide policy last reviewed in 2020
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MC04 Implementation and Management of the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards within the Meaning of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
The purpose of this corporate policy and procedure is to provide support and guidance for those working within the framework of the Mental Capacity Act 2005. This policy reviews and replaces the Trust-wide policy last reviewed in 2020
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Mental Capacity Act flowchart
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Dietary referral Mental Capacity Act flowchart
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Dietician Mental Capacity Act flowchart
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7 min briefing Mental Capacity Act - Shared Decision Making
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Mental Capacity Act or Mental health Act
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MH01 Overarching Policy and Procedure of the Mental Health Act 1983
The objectives of this policy are to describe the standards expected and the supporting processes for 1 Clinical and administrative application of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA). 2 Describing the interface processes that exist between the Mental Health Act 1983, the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. 3 Monitoring the clinical and administrative application of the MHA. 4 Supporting those applying or monitoring the MHA through cross-referencing with the Act’s Code of Practice and other relevant literature, documentation. 5 Review and monitoring of the above process.
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Absent Without Leave (AWOL) Procedure
The purpose of this procedure is to ensure an effective and consistent response to reports of service users who are either detained under the Mental Health Act (MHA) 1983 (as amended 2007) or under Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) as per the Mental Capacity Act (2005) who abscond from an inpatient setting; are absent without leave (AWOL); or fail to return from a period of leave and how to return them safely to the ward if appropriate.
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SA07 HS8 Environmental Suicide Risk Assessment (ESRA)
The purpose of this policy is to describe how the organisation assesses and manages environmental risks for suicide and self harm, including ligatures and ligature anchor points, within all inpatient mental health wards. It is intended to support Trust staff in discharging their duty of care to service users, and to provide consistency and assurance of processes for the Trust.