Job overview
This role includes an RSU allowance of £1,446 per annum on top of your salary
Thames Valley Specialist Community Forensic Team (TV-SCFT) is recruiting for a Clinical Lead Nurse who is passionate about providing care to patients with a history of offending behaviour.
This is a newly created role focusing on community patients, and you'll have the ability to be creative and innovative, shaping the role and clinical nursing provision in the team.
You'll provide clinical leadership in mental health nursing to the Forensic Community Learning Disability Team (FCLDT) and Specialist Community Forensic Team (SCFT), overseeing provision of evidence-based, innovative, and cutting-edge specialist forensic community mental health nursing care, consultations, advice, and training.
You'll work with partner agencies across Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Milton Keynes, including inpatient forensic wards, in developing the SCFT & FCLDT community nursing care packages for patients and families.
The team is collectively supportive, recognises diversity and values leading with compassion. If you're an experienced NMC registered mental health nurse looking for career move or new challenge we would love to hear from you!
Please note if you are based outside of the UK you will need to be fully qualified, have already passed your OSCE and have an NMC pin number in order to be considered for this role
Main duties of the job
1. Managing a limited caseload, the post holder will be responsible for coordinating day-to-day safe and effective nursing provision, supporting a team of nurses with crisis and urgent care and implementing proactive nursing interventions to avert crises and minimise avoidable re-admissions.
2. Provide clinical and professional supervision to band 6 nurses in the teams and work alongside our operational lead (deputy team manager) and other lead clinicians in specific clinical leadership responsibilities.
3. Support decision-making around complex cases and strategic planning as a key member of the multidisciplinary team.
They will promote a culture of research and innovation to develop a 'knowledge-rich and inquiry-based' culture across the service, to increase capacity and capability in care delivery.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.
Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential criteria
4. Skills in the use of complex methods of biopsychosocial assessment, intervention and management.
5. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups
6. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by NMC.
7. Knowledge and skills in collective compassionate leadership
Desirable criteria
8. Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies for a wide range of mental health difficulties associated with offending behaviour
Qualifications – Academic/Skills/Professional
Essential criteria
9. Mental Health nursing degree/diploma/masters. With significant post qualifying experience
10. Current NMC Registration
11. Experience of specialist assessment and treatment of patients across the full range of care settings, including supported living, other community settings, and inpatient settings.
12. Have the ability to manage, supervise and appraise clinical staff in areas of clinical supervision, case-management.
Desirable criteria
13. Completed further training in specific fields of mental health including but not limited to DBT and / Or CBT or other evidence based therapy or mentoring / Leadership courses / nurse prescriber.
14. Experience of working with mentally disordered offenders.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
15. Ability to work as part of a team with a positive attitude and good judgement and treat others with dignity and respect
16. Confident, articulate with good emotional intelligence
17. Flexible and resourceful in coping under pressure with conflicting demands, without avoiding responsibility
Desirable criteria
18. An awareness of own strengths and limitations
Contractual Requirements or other requirements
Essential criteria
19. A positive approach to working with people who have committed serious violent offences and their families.
20. Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
21. Ability to travel between team bases, other clinical teams and supported living within the Thames valley region and beyond as required for the post
Desirable criteria
22. Willingness to work flexibly
23. All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
24. Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
25. We’re advocates of flexible working and many of our roles offer a range of employment options to help you balance your work and personal life.
26. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
27. We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
28. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
29. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
30. Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing