Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
The Registered Nurse Manager is part of a senior management team, operationally and clinically responsible and accountable for the clinical delivery within older adults nursing homes. The post holder will be responsible for overseeing the clinical care of the nursing homes to secure and assure the highest standards of clinical care are provided to residents. They will be responsible for the operational management of the service alongside the management teams within each care home.
The post holder will facilitate positive working relationships with the PLACE care homes inspection team and with the Local Authority care homes team to ensure broader engagement in the care homes/social care agenda within Sheffield.
The post holder in conjunction with the management team will lead on the planning and delivery of service targets and objectives in line with the Trust's annual business planning round, and actively monitor delivery throughout the year, coordinating resources across teams or service areas as necessary.
The post holder will act as the CQC registered manager for Woodland View care home initially.
Main duties of the job
* Provide effective leadership and management
* Be a visible and credible role model
* Develop team performance and individual personal development
* Manage the home/department environment
* Deliver a safe and effective service within allocated resources ensuring the resources are used to maximum effect
* Effectively manage budgets
* To ensure safe and effective practice/Professional, ethical and legal
* Act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence
* Maintain a safe and clean environment for staff, patients/clients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection, risk management and critical incident reporting
About us
At SHSC, we prioritise the well-being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust's Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account.
Job responsibilities
To provide inspirational, visible and accessible leadership across their service areas and within the Trust. To ensure systems and mechanisms are in place to understand the experience of residents in the care homes and collate and engage with feedback from carers and significant others. To work with Clinical Managers ensuring that patients are treated with respect by supporting the protection of their privacy and dignity and making sure they are addressed in the way they choose. To lead and support their service(s), empowering them to perform at their best, through the provision of excellent facilitative support and leadership development. Act as an effective role model for the application of Trust principles and values by promoting a culture of excellence delivered through continuous service improvement and by actively displaying the behaviours associated with the Trust's values. Develop outline and lead projects in collaboration with key stakeholders such as clinical and practitioner staff, service users and carers, external agencies, commissioning bodies and partner organisations to achieve service improvement and development. Ensure clinical and operational engagement, facilitating and supporting clinical team leaders and front-line staff to understand their performance and develop improvement plans where necessary. To establish and maintain effective communication enabling staff to participate in decision making, promoting a culture in which staff feel informed, valued and have a positive sense of ownership. Ensure the equality and diversity agenda is delivered and monitored including the production of equality impact assessments. Maintain effective briefing and updates to the line manager and other members of the area team with respect to service issues, risks and concerns. To link with managers and clinicians/nursing staff and external parties as required. To nurture a culture which promotes and develops leadership at all levels and one which embraces a facilitative style of management.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse (Mental Health Nurse or Nurse)
Knowledge
* Ability to deal with complaints and manage conflict effectively.
* Ability to manage and deal with crisis.
* Able to demonstrate a strong commitment to equal opportunities and equal access with a practical approach to ensure that policies are applicable to practice.
* Extensive post-registration professional development in area applying for.
* Knowledge of the current policy context and the implications for practice in nursing homes, relevant legislation and policies associated with Mental Health Care including MHA, Mental Capacity Act and Human Rights Act, current policy issues and their implications for mental health nursing and clinical environments.
* Understanding of risk issues including Clinical and Health and Safety
* Able to communicate complex and sensitive issues to a range of audiences. Able to negotiate and influence in order to achieve objectives without direct line management.
* Able to advise on clinical nursing issues demonstrating an understanding of professional guidance, nursing policy and relevant status.
* Able to demonstrate a genuine commitment to ensuring that services meet the needs of service users and their carers and are delivered with sensitivity.
* Ability to negotiate and reach compromises in a manner, which inspires confidence and respect from others at all, levels both within and outside the organisation.
* Able to work on several projects simultaneously using project management skills. Evidence of consultancy skills. Able to identify key issues from complex documents and plan for operationalising the same.
Experience
* Experience at a senior management level, including managing change and introducing new ways of working for mental health nurses Experience of multi-professional collaboration at a senior level.
* Partnership working with other statutory and voluntary agencies.
* Experience of setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
* Current experience of relevant clinical practice - especially if working across different specialties
* Quality improvement methodology, assessing and teaching.
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.
Address
Woodland View Care Home / Birch Avenue Care Home
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