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8B Principal Clinical Psychologist NHS AfC: Band 8b, West Midlands
Client: Black Country Job Support
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Job Category: Other
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: 09a4e392c34a
Job Views: 5
Posted: 03.03.2025
Expiry Date: 17.04.2025
Job Description:
Job overview
An excellent developmental opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager position on Cedars Ward specialising in functional older adult mental health care based at Bloxwich Hospital. This is a fantastic opportunity to continue or develop your management and leadership skills within Older Adults Mental Health and to support junior staff in delivering high-quality care within our dementia inpatient service. The post holder will provide leadership for the ward and work in close collaboration with the ward manager as part of the leadership and management structures that are in place to ensure high-quality care throughout the patient pathway.
Main duties of the job
* Applications are invited from experienced Nurses with relevant experience, to support and lead our service as part of the ward management team.
* You should be motivated, forward-thinking in your approach, and possess excellent communication and inter-personal skills.
* A degree of flexibility in approach is required along with a willingness to learn whilst working in a potentially challenging environment.
You will be leading and managing a team that has high levels of training compliance, good support systems, and low levels of complaints.
* Provide leadership and support for all staff.
* Act as a role model for good clinical care governance practice.
* Be caring and compassionate.
* Work in conjunction with the ward manager.
* Understand what an effective service is.
* Understand local and national policies.
* Able to maintain clinical standards, a quality service and a sense of direction to an already committed team.
* Promote a recovery culture with least restrictive practices.
* Understand risk management and monitoring.
* Able to reflect, develop action plans and support others.
* Understand the needs of a challenging environment.
* Have excellent standards of communication and reporting systems.
* Enjoy teamwork.
Working for our organisation
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and community healthcare services for the population of the Black Country. Across the whole of the region we provide:
* Adult and older adult mental health services
* Specialist learning disability services
* CAMHS
Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was formed on 1 April 2020, after NHS England and NHS Improvement approved the merger of Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. Combining resources, strategies and talented workforce enables us to deliver a wider variety of outstanding services that are based on best practice and are continually improving. We currently employ over 3,000 members of staff and just like the population we serve, we are made up of diverse cultures and backgrounds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Work within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
* Engage proactively using effective communication with patients and families/carers/significant others.
* Demonstrate a high level of clinical nursing expertise acting as a role model to others.
* Participate in Mental Health Act assessments and demonstrate an up-to-date knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of the nurse and its application in practice.
* Demonstrate competence, skills and knowledge to effectively work with patients and their families/carers/significant others with regards to medicine management.
* Develop risk management plans and timely review of the risk management plan identifying opportunities for positive risk-taking.
* Support Band 5 staff in their role as named nurse, facilitating responsible care coordination, care planning, implementation and clinical assessments.
* Monitor the well-being of patients and contribute to protecting individuals whose health and well-being is at risk.
* Maintain patient confidentiality in accordance with the Data Protection Act and Professional Code of Conduct.
* Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others in own work area.
* Initiate quality improvement directives such as clinical audits, Essence of Care.
* Take an active role in developing knowledge, ideas and support evidence-based practice.
* Support Band 5 staff in their role as Shift Coordinator and/or Nurse in Charge.
* Contribute to the development of junior members of staff and students promoting an environment conducive to learning.
* Ensure all necessary documentation identified in organizational/local policies and procedures are completed.
* Ensure an open channel of communication/information to the team and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
* Refer any enquiries out of your sphere of competence to the appropriate channels.
* Develop nursing practice through the critical appraisal of research.
* Support nursing and multi-disciplinary research and audit within the Trust.
* Maintain a professional portfolio and registration for practice.
* Report and discuss any professional concerns with the Ward Manager.
* Act as a positive role model when carrying out all aspects of patient care.
* Be non-judgmental and anti-discriminatory in your approach to patients and staff.
* Take time to listen to the patient regarding their concerns, anxieties and needs.
* Participate in regular individual performance reviews and in the production of a Personal Development Plan.
* Engage in reflection on own practice as an ongoing process.
* Attend mandatory training courses indicated in personal development plans.
* Work rotational shifts including nights, weekends and bank holidays.
* Participate in cross-site Senior Nurse cover including nights, weekends and bank holidays.
* Support the Ward manager in developing effective ward rotas, managing skill mix issues.
* Negotiate annual leave with team members keeping accurate records.
* Facilitate mandatory and identified training for team members.
* Support the Ward Manager in managing staff sickness effectively.
* Demonstrate commitment to develop the range of skills required to deputise in the absence of the Ward Manager.
* Demonstrate effective time management and the ability to prioritise competing demands.
* Work positively with patients and carers who express verbal concerns or complaints about the service.
* Demonstrate a comprehensive and working knowledge of the policy and procedural guidance following a Serious Untoward Incident (SUI).
* Demonstrate awareness of the major national policy initiatives and their influence on care delivery.
Person specification
Evidence based mental health and risk assessments of individuals
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