Are you a resilient leader ready to drive quality and innovation, with a focus on reducing restrictive practices?
Join our forward-thinking team and lead the charge in implementing transformative solutions. We seek candidates with demonstrable knowledge of the Equality and Human Rights Act and have experience in the delivery of clinical developments.
Candidates must have extensive experience of working in Secure Services, with a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges of providing high-quality care in these settings. A proven track record of delivering excellence in nursing practice and clinical innovation.
The Nurse Consultant for Reducing Restrictive Practices has a Trust-wide responsibility to ensure robust Nursing leadership in relation to the Restraint Reduction Programme - No Force First; as an autonomous practitioner, working to the Associate Director of Nursing and Patient Experience and the Clinical Director for the Centre for Perfect Care to deliver a range of objectives relating specifically to Offender Health but also in relation to nursing standards and practice.
The post holder will be responsible for advancing the Trust objectives of reducing restrictive practices and will work in partnership with service users, carers and staff to ensure the delivery of outstanding care, upholding our patients' human rights and furthering our co-production agenda. The post holder will also be needed to offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, staff and other professionals.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Principal Responsibilities:
1. To work as Lead nurse across the Trust.
2. To formulate, implement and evaluate interventions which support the clinical
pathway for patients and service users in the Trust.
3. To ensure Trust wide PSS training and education programme meets Trust and national standards and is effectively delivered by the PSS training Team.
4. To enhance service user experience by monitoring and developing service user feedback and engagement at ward level and across the Trust.
5. Lead on the development and evaluate policies \ protocols for advancing nursing practice in the Trust.
For further information please view the Job Description at the bottom of the page.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Jan 2025