Thank you for your interest in this vacancy! We highly recommend reading our Tips on how to apply page to give you an insight on how applications are scored & shortlisted by our Recruiting Managers. These tips have been provided to give you a better chance of being shortlisted for our vacancies.
Please note that if you apply for a position with North Bristol NHS Trust, you may be contacted via TRAC or via email. This includes invites for job interviews. We therefore recommend that you regularly check your TRAC Account and email accounts including junk and spam folders.
Our job adverts may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Considering this, if you are interested in this role, please do apply as soon as you can.
Job overview
To be a visible clinical lead within the mental health liaison team, part of North Bristol NHS Trust. To be a part of the leadership team implementing positive change to the experience of all patients impacted by mental health concerns. Driving the constant development of the mental health liaison team, assisting in the implementation of the NBT MH strategy and leading in the education of all NBT staff in issues related to mental health.
Main duties of the job
The post carries the following responsibilities for the relevant wards and the designated clinical team or teams:
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post carries the following responsibilities for the relevant wards and the designated clinical team or teams:
Professional and Clinical Leadership
1. Provide visible and accessible clinical leadership, direction and support to all nursing/ AHP staff across the sphere of responsibility/ clinical team.
2. Lead by example, demonstrating the highest possible standards of nursing care that patients can expect where their privacy and dignity is respected and protected.
3. Act as a highly knowledgeable and skilled nursing clinical resource to others in the clinical team and the Trust.
4. Provide guidance, support and coaching to nursing staff in order to promote an environment within the clinical team conducive to change in service delivery and acting as a positive change agent.
5. Lead on or facilitate developments in support of clinical nursing and speciality specific modernisation, implementing and evaluating new and existing policies and practices.
6. Actively consult with staff on potential changes.
7. Ensure that staff are empowered to play an active part in the modernisation agenda both internally and externally.
8. Conduct and organise team meetings, cascading information and generating constructive debate on service issues and developments.
9. Lead the clinical nursing team in working collaboratively with other professions and organisations and networks as appropriate.
10. Together with the Divisional Director of Nursing, Senior Nurse, GM and Specialty Leads, ensure that the needs of the clinical specialty are represented at Division and Trust level in relation to the preparation for single site working and service redesign.
11. Act as a speciality or nursing representative as required in division, Trust or external forums. Ensure that information from any forums attended is fed back in a timely manner to the relevant groups of staff.
Managerial
1. Fully contribute to the development of business plans and strategies of the clinical team.
2. Support and fully participate in the day to day operational management of the wards in the clinical team.
3. In conjunction with the Divisional Director of Nursing, maximise recruitment and retention of nursing staff within the speciality, including the promotion of succession planning and role review and development. To be responsible for the recruitment process for posts directly responsible to this post.
4. Monitor and report on all sickness and absence for staff in the team and manage it within the Trust policies initiating or taking any action indicated.
5. Ensure efficient allocation of annual leave within all grades of staff to ensure that effective rosters can be maintained at all times.
6. Identify and minimise any conflict that occurs within the ward team and facilitate good interpersonal communications.
7. Ensure that staffing levels are consistent with the workload and patterns of workload in each area within the span of responsibility.
8. Monitor, control and report to the clinical team and the Divisional Director of Nursing on the use of pay and non-pay resources.
9. Make recommendations for expenditure, ensure financial balance and value for money.
10. Participate in the Division matrons bleep rota to ensure the accessibility and continuity of senior advice available to all clinical areas.
11. Provide information and assistance to support decision making of the Clinical Site Management team and the “on call” managers/ executive staff.
12. Participate in the analysis of complex facts, information and situations that require interpretation and comparison with a range of options.
Clinical Standards
1. Implement the Mental Health Strategy across the Trust.
2. Act as a role model in the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of excellent standards of evidence-based patient care.
3. Accountable to ensure that the clinical environment is well maintained and clean.
4. Actively contribute to the clinical effectiveness agenda, supporting the Division Clinical Governance Lead and clinical team to develop and implement care pathways, National Service Frameworks, NICE guidelines, clinical standards and protocols including mechanisms for auditing and evaluating clinical outcomes.
5. Regularly review, update and standardise the protocols and guidelines used within the specialty and promote their use in cross-site working.
6. Provide professional and clinical advice/ support to team members in order that they are able to carry out their duties and delegate them.
7. Promote a multidisciplinary culture and ensure that effective collaboration takes place in service planning. Ensure inclusion of all professionals.
8. Develop and empower staff to lead the discharge process for their patients.
9. Ensure effective liaison between primary and secondary nursing care providers, in order to provide a seamless service for the patients and their carers.
10. Maintain a current knowledge of all patients who have a delay in their transfer/ discharge within the sphere of responsibility. Actively support the planning process for this group of patients. Attend and report progress on planning for these patients at the regular delayed discharge forum.
Education Training and Development
1. Work with the Divisional Director of Nursing to develop and implement specialist and general educational programs for all grades of staff in the clinical team. This is to include providing Professional Development Pathways for specialist and general staff.
2. Lead on the development of a specialist competency framework for the sphere of practice, which can be used to establish performance standards for all staff.
3. In conjunction with the Divisional Director of Nursing, ensure that all nursing staff in the clinical team has an annual appraisal and personal development plan.
4. Co-ordinate the annual training needs analysis for the clinical team and participates in the agreement of the final Division Education Demand Forecasting.
5. Ensure that clinical placements within the sphere of responsibility meet the requirements for nurse training and education, including the provision of adequate mentors and assessors.
6. Ensure that there are ongoing programs of training, education and development within the clinical team which meet the needs of the specialist area and the induction of new staff.
7. Ensure that the training developed in the clinical team supports the development of new roles and responsibilities.
8. In consultation with the Divisional Director of Nursing, participate in and initiate research and/or audit projects.
Clinical Governance and Risk Management
1. Undertake in the investigation and reporting on complaints and untoward incidents/ accidents, in accordance with NBT policy. Ensuring that action plans developed as a consequence of lessons learned are shared in the clinical team and across the Division.
2. Work in collaboration with PALS to ensure that patient feedback becomes part of the planning for service development.
3. In collaboration with the clinical team, work to ensure that patient and/or public involvement is included when planning service developments.
4. Be involved/ monitor and report the identification of clinical risk and the plans to reduce or manage it within the Division and clinical team.
5. Promote a safe working environment, ensuring that the requirements of Trust policies are maintained.
6. Ensure that all staff attend mandatory training on an annual basis and that accurate records of staff training are maintained.
Working Conditions / Effort
1. Working directly with patients and staff in highly emotional circumstances where there is the potential for aggression to be expressed.
2. Unpredictable physical and mental work demands requiring response to acute emergencies and prolonged processes.
3. Frequent telephone or bleep interruptions requesting help or advice.
4. Periods of standing, walking and sitting requiring physical effort.
5. Requirement to work flexible hours.
6. Requirement to travel between hospital sites and meeting places.
7. Various working environments – clinical environments, office or meeting areas.
Improving the patient experience through your work
Patients are the most important people in the health service and are at the centre of what we do. Patients and carers are the ‘experts’ in how they feel and what it is like to live with or care for someone with a particular illness or condition. The patients’ experience of our services should guide the way we deliver services and influence how we engage with patients every day in our work.
All staff should communicate effectively in their day to day practice with patients and should support and enable patients/carers to make choices, changes and influence the way their treatment or care is provided. All staff, managers and Board members should work to promote effective patient, carer and public involvement in all elements of their work.
We have a duty to involve, engage and consult with patients, carers and families about plans for health facilities and the provision of our services. North Bristol NHS Trust wholeheartedly embraces the principles of patient partnership and has made clear its commitment to involve patients in key aspects of its work, which will be further strengthened through becoming a Foundation Trust.
Person specification
MHLT experience 2 years
* 2 years
* 2 years
If you apply for this vacancy and have not received a communication from North Bristol NHS Trust within three weeks of the closing date, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
Please note that North Bristol NHS Trust does not reimburse travel expenses relating to interview attendance.
The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.
At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.
Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Our job adverts may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Considering this, if you are interested in this role, please do apply as soon as you can.
Name Ben Ford Job title Lead Nurse Nurse Mental health Email address ben.ford@nbt.nhs.uk Telephone number 0117 4146571
If you have problems applying, contact
Address Recruitment Operations
North Bristol NHS Trust
Bristol
Telephone 0117 41 41151
#J-18808-Ljbffr