Lead Nurse/Professional in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced Registered Nurse (RMN or RNLD), AHP or Registered Social Worker to become the Lead Nurse / Professional in the care of our patients admitted or attending with a mental health difficulty, learning disabilities, autism or dementia.
You will provide expertise, leadership and management across the Trust in the care of patients with a mental health difficulty, learning disability, autism or dementia. The post holder will provide line managements to the specialist practitioner within each workstream and and will ensure the service is responsive to the needs of patients all ages.
You will be integrated into the safeguarding team and will have the ability to support our patients with complex needs, develop a skilled workforce to provide individualised care for patients.
The role includes multi-agency working with commissioned mental health services, community learning disability teams, police, local authorities and Integrated Care Boards and Partnership Boards to meet the needs of patients.
The post holder will work autonomously, have the ability to lead change and meeting best practice guidance, have the ability to collate data, analyse and produce reports, be able to benchmark performance against standards and to drive policies and related Trust strategies.
For more information please contact Andrea Hardyman 01772 523676 or andrea.hardyman@lthtr.nhs.uk
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role include:
Provide expert advice and clinical leadership into the care of our patients with a mental health difficulty, learning disability, autism and dementia.
Ensure positive patient, family and carer experience and patient centred, collaborative care to reach best health outcomes, reduction of health inequality and ensure parity of esteem between mental health and physical health.
Provide leadership and line management to Specialist Practitioners within each workstream ensuring direction to meet the needs of the patients and Trust.
Ensure the workforce is appropriately trained to recognise the individual needs of patients in these groups, building skills to best support, make reasonable adjustments and to maintain patient safety and improve care for patients with a learning disability, autism, mental health or dementia, and their families.
Work clinically, operationally and at a strategic level to drive forward the action plans for the mental health strategy, dementia strategy, learning disability plan and autism plan.
Ensure clinical governance, a culture of learning, key performance indicators and service development in relation to mental health, learning disabilities, autism and dementia.
Ensure statutory obligations and patient rights are upheld in relation to the Mental Health Act (1983, 2007).
About us
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help to look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & South Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients and staff, ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding care.
You will have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fabulous people and work with others with diverse roles to build your skills.
You will be supported to think differently, be bold and help innovate to keep improving things and maintain focused on person centred patient care.
Job responsibilities
Lead the workstreams for Mental Health, Learning Disability and / or autism, Dementia and High Intensity User (HIU) providing advice, role modelling, leadership and direction to teams within the trust, work with key internal and external stakeholders to deliver a comprehensive, cohesive, safe and effective service to patients.
Provide comprehensive and timely advice and support all staff in line with relevant policy and law. Ensuring liaison with other agencies such as police, children and adult social care, mental health and learning disability services to ensure that the needs of vulnerable children and adults are met.
Ensure leadership into the care, service development, culture of learning and audit for our patients with a mental health difficulty, learning disability, autism or dementia.
Guide and increase knowledge of staff by role modelling and explaining complex needs and models of care to others who are unfamiliar with them, to aid effective communication and decision making to safeguard vulnerable adults and children. Including managing the sharing of confidential and sensitive information within own agency and outside agencies
Ensure compliance with the key performance indicators for the service including ensuring all governance and risk associated with the Learning Disability, mental health and autism agenda are identified and mitigation is in place to minimise risk.
Lead the delivery of actions in the mental health strategy, dementia strategy, learning disability plan and autism plan, working with multi-agency partners, systems, patients and their families and carers to ensure a culture of continuous improvement.
Lead on audits/ research and developments into practice across LTHTR and health economy to ensure understanding and embedding of Learning Disability and Mental Health agenda. Leads in the review and development of policies and procedure to ensure compliance with legislation
Ensure compliance with the key performance indicators for the service including ensuring all governance and risk associated with the Learning Disability, mental health and autism agenda are identified and mitigation is in place to minimise risk.
Lead on audits and developments into practice across LTHTR and health economy to ensure understanding and embedding of Learning Disability and Mental Health agenda. Lead in the review and development of policies and procedure to ensure compliance with legislation
Lead on the reviewing of incidents identifying themes and trends across service provision and help make recommendations to improve the level of service and reduce risks. Provide quarterly reports on progress against workstream objectives
Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
* Professional nurse (RMN or RNLD), AHP or social worker.
* Post graduate leadership training/ development
* Evidence of continuous professional development relevant to the role
* Teaching qualification.
* Training in Safeguarding Adults and Children Supervision.
Knowledge and Experience
* Significant post-registration experience of working with learning disability, autism or mental health patient groups.
* Significant knowledge and experience in statutory guidance including the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Children Act
* Experience of multi-agency working and providing expert advice and professional judgement into complex clinical scenarios.
* Experience and involvement in clinical governance
* Evidence of completing investigation, audit and practice or service development
* Evidence and ability of providing successful leadership roles.
* Previous line management responsibilities
* Experience of participating in undertaking and providing clinical and safeguarding supervision
* Experience of staff / workforce development
* Demonstrated experience of working as an autonomous practitioner.
* Strategic planning, ability to develop strategic direction for a team or service.
* In depth understanding of the NHS including current key policies and priorities and their application.
* Evidence of maintaining Risk Registers and feeding into Datix
* Demonstrable data collection, analysis and evaluation skills.
* Investigation training.
* Extensive knowledge of national/ local safeguarding adults and safeguarding children's agenda and policies.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Matron for mental health and learning disabilities
£53,755 to £60,504 a yearper annum, pro rata
#J-18808-Ljbffr