Please note that this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.
Job overview
Senior Urgent Care Nurse Band 7
Are you looking for your next exciting challenge? Are you an experienced frontline leader and passionate about inclusivity? Are you a value based leader and keen to work with our staff and service users?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Birmingham & Solihull Urgent Care Service, a well-established team with an extremely motivated and innovative workforce. We are looking for a similarly driven and creative professional to develop and lead the team.
Working within the Urgent care centre you will lead in assisting the team in diverting people away from the Emergency Department, ensuring service users access the appropriate pathways including the Street Triage, Psychiatric Decision Unit and Mental health based Place of Safety. You will also be responsible for embedding the bed locality model, ensuring that service users are admitted as close to home as possible. You must be able to practice autonomously and independently as well as be an effective member of the team, working collaboratively with other partners. Relationship forging skills are key to this post.
You will need:
* Excellent communication skills
* Leadership qualities
* Ability to work collaboratively with partner agencies
* Experience of managing change and leading staff
* Ability to make sound clinical decisions in collaboration and offer support to staff as needed
Main duties of the job
The Senior Urgent Care Nurse will be responsible for:
* Having an overview of capacity and demand across all localities.
* Supporting communications with each locality regarding patients potentially requiring admission via the Urgent Care pathway (i.e., Liaison Psychiatry, PDU, POS, Custody, Prison, Police stations).
* Managing requests for PICU admissions across all the localities.
* Acting as a broker between localities when beds are required in addition to allocated bed stock and contracted beds.
* Acting as a broker and single point of contact between two Trusts (e.g., if a BSMHFT patient were in another Trust, or vice versa). This includes the management of the FTB contracted beds within BSMHFT and appropriate escalation if required.
* Enabling access to Appropriate Out of Area admissions (Contracted bed and System beds).
* Responsible for the Out of Area admissions and repatriations.
* Supporting the operational running of the Urgent Care Team based at the Oleaster (e.g., PDU, POS, Street Triage, Call before to convey and NHS 111).
* Attending the BSOL System call to support the system
* Offering supervision to the Junior Staff
* Managing day-to-day activities within the Urgent Care team
Working for our organisation
Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.
Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people’s lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.
Person specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Admission / Discharge Experience
* RMHN/RLDN Degree level Qualification
Desirable criteria
* System working - ICB, Ambulance, Police and other professionals
* Working within the Acute and Urgent care Environment
The Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed.
All successful applicants will be required to complete the Trust’s induction programme. The Fundamental (Statutory and Mandatory) training will be in an e-learning format. You will be required to complete training modules online (approx. 9-14 hours depending on post) by the end of your first week with us.
If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process we may contact you via email to advise you of the interview details. Please ensure you access your email account from which you applied regularly once the position has closed.
If applicable to your role, the Trust will require you to sign up for the DBS Update Service. The Trust will reimburse this. You will be contractually obliged to maintain your subscription.
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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