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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
SENIOR CAMHS NURSE
North East London Foundation Trust are looking to recruit a Senior Mental Health Nurse, who will provide effective and efficient management of delegated resources within the Young Person's Home Treatment Team (YPHTT), which is a 24 hour crisis provision within CAMHS. Shift patterns including early, late and night shifts.
YPHTT are recent RCNi award winners and rated 'outstanding' by the CQC. YPHTT work with young people and their families/carers, who are aged 12-18 years; YPHTT is a full MDT service that is effectively a 'hospital at home' working adjacent to the inpatient unit. The team encourages re-integration back into communities, school and homes.
Main duties of the job
1. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day to day allocation of work.
2. To show leadership skills across the multi-disciplinary team.
3. To deputise when required in the absence of the clinical leads/team manager and delegate appropriately to other members of the team.
4. To have organisational knowledge of Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly in relation to the administration of medicine and Safeguarding Children.
5. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
6. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register.
7. To undertake regular clinical audits to inform practice and to report this in to Brookside's internal governance structure.
8. To work a 24 hour, 365 day shift pattern, including night shifts.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* RMN
* Degree
* Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
* Mentorship
Experience
Essential criteria
* Extensive experience of working with young people with complex, acute mental health needs and challenging behaviours.
* Providing staff supervision and appraisal to qualified and non-professionally aligned staff.
* Risk assessment and management within a mental health inpatient setting.
* Ability to perform under pressure, quickly and effectively, making timely managerial decisions and following through available agreed care pathways.
Desirable criteria
* Managing clinical services.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* An awareness of NHS Plan, NSF and clinical governance priorities
* Thorough knowledge of the 1983 Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act, Children's Act, and related legislation, codes of practice and guidance.
* Understanding of and commitment to the principle of equal opportunities in service delivery
* Infection control standards
Other
Essential criteria
* To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
* Well-developed interpersonal skills especially when handling conflict and change.
* Ability to lead and direct teams performance and activities.
* Ability to cope with highly emotionally stressful situations on a day-to-day basis.
* To be flexible, supportive and if required to take on management of new services as required
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically.
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
Applicant requirements
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.
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