Duty Coordinator Nurse - Adult Inpatient Service
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Come and join us! Are you a qualified nurse with experience of mental health urgent care? Are you passionate about supporting the delivery of high quality, safe and effective services? Helping to support and develop teams to provide our service users and their families with an excellent experience? Then the role of Duty Coordinator- Nurse could be for you.
Main duties of the job
The role of Duty Coordinator will be based within Roseberry Park providing senior clinical leadership and oversight to the inpatient teams and service users. The role will be to offer clinical support and coordination of workload across the services, supporting and inducting staff in processes and practice within the service, offering clinical and management supervision to the team, developing close working relationships with key stakeholders, monitoring of the KPI's for the service and the implementation of quality assurance measures within the organisation. Your role will be to support the staff within the team with decision making, or challenging and rapidly changing situations.
You will work as part of a motivated, driven and dynamic team. A professional registration within Mental health, social care or an Allied Professional registration with mental health experience is essential and experience within an urgent mental health care setting is desirable. Full training and induction in the role will be provided.
About us
This is a job where you can truly make a positive impact on high quality service delivery, patient and staff experience. You will need to be resilient, to be able to think on your feet and be quick to adapt to changing situations. You will be part of a supportive and encouraging team that is constantly learning and growing, and you will be given opportunities to develop new skills and take on new challenges.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Current professional registration with Nursing & Midwifery Council. RMNH/RNLD (RNC-CAMHS only)
* Post Grad Diploma willing to work towards and achieve within 2 years.
* Recognised Practice Supervisor and or Practice Assessor, clinical educator or equivalent. Must be achieved within 6 months
* Post-graduate qualification in a relevant area
Knowledge and experience
* Minimum of 2 years clinical experience at band 6 (or equivalent of Band 6) or above working with people with mental ill health, Autism, or Learning Disability in a care environment.
* Understanding of relevant legislation (e.g. Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act).
* Clinical Risk Assessment and Management and its application in practice.
* Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice.
* Demonstrable knowledge to post-graduate level of evidence-based practice in caring for patients in the designated field.
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
* Clinical Supervisor
Knowledge/Skills/Experience
* Working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers.
* Providing clinical supervision to individuals or groups as professionally appropriate.
* Supervising or assessing students on practice placement.
* Working in a multi-disciplinary team
* Quality improvement activities
* Clinical Governance and its application in practice.
* Research and development methodology.
* Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
* Working knowledge of clinical medicines management, including administration of injections.
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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