Job overview
Acute Care (Crisis Response Home Treatment and Mental Health Liaison)
12 month secondment covering maternity leave
This career-enhancing opportunity has arisen for a senior nurse to gain experience to progress their nursing career.
This role is one of three matron roles within the acute care pathway for the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Care Group, which practices around the NHS England Matrons Handbook, highlighting, reinforcing, and celebrating the critical role matrons play in health and care services.
We are seeking a senior nurse with compassionate, collective/inclusive leadership skills, focused on delivering innovative practice while upholding professional standards and accountability. The successful candidate will work in partnership with colleagues and system partners, engaging and maintaining good working relationships.
You will need experience in acute inpatient, crisis response, and/or community mental health settings, with clinical, governance, patient safety, quality, and managerial knowledge, along with operational oversight. Familiarity with mental health legislation, safeguarding, and an understanding of and ability to deliver quality, safety, and performance outcomes are essential.
There will be opportunities to develop your skills further through supervision and support from the existing Care Group and Trust-wide senior nursing and management teams. If you believe you have the right skills and determination to deliver high-quality inpatient care, we would like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
* Work alongside nursing and other clinical staff in planning care and risk management for individuals and their families and carers, taking an active role when required.
* Develop local solutions by listening to nursing feedback and working collaboratively to escalate risks to the leadership team and via quality governance mechanisms.
* Manage risks across the urgent care pathway, maintaining the local risk register, and ensuring all risks have controls and mitigations in place, which are managed, monitored, and reduced or closed as appropriate.
* Ensure safe systems for patients and staff to deliver care, including trained staff to identify deteriorating patients, undertake resuscitation, and use best practice least restrictive techniques in mental health wards.
* Collaborate with the Care Group and Quality and Clinical Performance Directorate to ensure teams have clearly identified and understood written objectives aligned with service and Trust goals for quality, performance, and safety.
* Monitor the quality of patient assessments, care plans, and their evaluations to ensure high standards are maintained.
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