Clinical Lead - Adult Inpatient Mental Health
Are you an experienced and ambitious RMN looking to become a Band 6 clinical lead?
At Somerset NHS Foundation Trust we are actively seeking individuals who want to contribute to our vision of providing patient centred and compassionate nursing care. We are interested in hearing from people who can make a difference with their positive outlook, dedication, expertise and compassion.
Main duties of the job
You will have had varied and substantive experience of working as a Band 5 RMN, and will be confident, robust, approachable, and sensitive to the issues faced by people who are in the most acute and challenging phase of their journey towards recovery. As a team player you will work creatively, and have the leadership desire to sometimes look further than your own shift and even your own ward, with the ability to see a wider perspective when making decisions that impact across a patients pathway or the service.
You will be joining a dynamic and innovative multidisciplinary management team that works within a new service structure committed to operating, sharing and supporting each other. Whilst you will be rooted in one of our ward teams you will also provide service wide leadership and support across the building out of hours to your neighbouring ward colleagues.
We are heavily committed to quality improvement and innovation and we underpin our service values with those of recovery, involvement, reducing restrictive interventions and teamwork. We have achieved Royal College of Psychiatrists AIMS accreditation on one of our admission wards and we are now working towards this on our neighbouring ward.
Job responsibilities
1. To provide clinical leadership, advice and support for junior members of the team.
2. To assist the unit manager lead development and changes on the ward.
3. To support the deputy ward manager/ward manager in the management and leadership role, including contribution to the locality management team/MDT.
4. To support the ward manager to achieve team objectives, targets and quality standards.
5. To contribute to the promotion of staff well-being and morale in the team through developing and maintaining supportive relationships, acting as a role model.
6. To deal with complaints in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
7. To maintain adequate resources for the delivery of care.
8. To assist in the implementation and monitoring of all Trust policies and procedures and local protocols on the ward and ensuring that clinical practice standards are adhered to and implemented.
9. To provide management supervision and appraisal of the work of band 5 and below, this may include admin staff, using the knowledge and skills framework and be supportive and possibly assist in the delivery of group or individual clinical supervision.
10. To complete risk assessments, clinical and non-clinical, ensure they are updated and that all staff know their responsibilities in relation to this.
11. To deputise for the ward manager in their absence and other nursing staff when necessary.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Relevant professional qualification and registration e.g. RMN
* Relevant teaching and assessment qualification
* Relevant degree or working towards RMN
* Relevant management and leadership experience/training/qualification
* NVQ assessor/verifier
Experience
* Experience of carrying out supervision to junior staff
* Proven experience of working with a relevant client group in a multi-agency service, presenting complex and sensitive information to large groups of people.
* Ability to demonstrate leadership skills and to act up in the absence of the person in charge.
* Experience of managing time and workload of self and others effectively and be able to delegate.
* Evidence of taking lead in projects
* Research
* Experience of electronic patient records/RiO
* Experience of carrying out research and development
* Experience of carrying out audits
* To have experience in being involved in service improvement
* Experience of managing change
* Evidence of use of Essence of Care
Additional Criteria
* Knowledge of NMC code of professional conduct
* Evidence of continuing professional development and to have undertaken post registration
* Ability to demonstrate and evidence post-qualifying
* Sound knowledge of the Mental Health Act
* To comply with all Trust policies and procedures
* Evidence of a good standard of literacy/English language skills
* High standards of written and verbal communication Able to communicate with relatives, carers and other organisations about complex and sensitive issues
* Ability to deliver and delegate tasks
* Able to demonstrate ability to work effectively as part of a team
* To be able to co-ordinate the care of clients to ensure that high standards are met
* To be able to facilitate therapeutic and recreational groups and activities
* Good organisation skills, ability to manage own time and organise and plan times activities for staff and patients
* Ability to deliver and delegate tasks
* Able to recognise and respond to behaviour that challenges
* PMVA training to required level for role
* Willingness to use technology to improve standards of care and support to our patients
* Basic IT skills
* To comply with all Trust policies and procedures
* Ability to use email and internet
* Ability to record and retrieve information on charts and paper and electronic records
* To carry out staff performance and development reviews
* Identifying needs for the individual, able to identify own training needs and personal development plans
* To be able to monitor staff sickness, absence
* To have skills in problem-solving
* Must be a car driver with a valid driving licence or have access to transport with appropriate business insurance in order to travel throughout the Trust, to meet the needs of the service.
* Speaking to distressed patients, and their relatives, by telephone and in person.
* Involved with direct patient care where the post-holder may be subjected to frequent exposure to distressing circumstances
* Flexible and adaptable to meet the needs of the patients.
* The post-holder should be able to deal with verbal aggression without being punitive. At times dealing with face-to-face physical aggression
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.
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