Band 7 Senior Practitioner - Hillview Lodge, Bath
Hillview Lodge is seeking a motivated Senior Practitioner to join its well-established Adult and Older Adult wards.
Cedar Ward is a 12-bedded dementia assessment ward, providing comprehensive support for patients and their carers during a challenging phase of their illness. Cedar is a developed, purpose-designed unit providing a high-quality working environment.
Sycamore Ward is within the building of Hillview Lodge, in the grounds of The Royal United Hospital. Sycamore is currently piloting a 15-bedded all-female ward.
You will demonstrate compassionate leadership and utilise your knowledge and skills to deliver clinical supervision to a number of registered and unregistered staff.
Main Duties of the Job
* Ensure the continuing improvement of the service in line with organisational goals.
* Provide expert evidence-based advice to the MDT.
* Lead and promote a whole team approach within the service to ensure a shared ownership of the team's caseload.
* Develop and maintain communication and relationships with a wide range of people/services/agencies about complex matters or in complex situations with the purpose of sharing, developing, or resolving difficult or complex issues for the benefit of service users/carers and the service.
* Ensure, in partnership with the ward manager, that the service develops and maintains excellent clinical standards, which will be underpinned by robust and effective individual and team supervision.
About Us
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust), a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP, we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, and from the LGBTQ+ community.
Job Responsibilities
The role will cover two inpatient wards - Adult Acute and Older Adult Organic (dementia). The Senior Practitioner will work alongside the ward manager to ensure that high-quality care continues to be delivered by staff, and new learning is embedded with the team. The successful candidate will be required to lead by example in the clinical area, providing teaching sessions, attending MDT meetings, ward rounds and reviews, and offering advice and support, particularly with more complex cases.
The role will also include the following:
* Review of current practice and implementation and embedding new ways of working where required.
* Facilitating and leading consistent clinical supervision and reflective practice processes.
* Promote co-production across services with a key focus on patient and carer experience and involvement.
* Address key patient safety and care quality issues through learning from experience.
* Ensuring that all aspects of the Care Programme Approach (CPA) are embedded, bringing learning back to teams.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
* Registered Clinical Practitioner (e.g., Registered Adult, Mental Health or Learning Disabilities Nurse, Midwife, Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist)
* Current professional registration (with NMC or HCPC)
* Possession of, or ability and willingness to undertake, a relevant post-registration qualification (e.g., Advanced Clinical)
* Possession of a post-registration qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice, service/quality improvement or another clinically-relevant subject
Experience and Knowledge
* Substantial post-registration experience gained working in front-line mental health services
* Highly developed understanding of the principles of recovery in mental health/learning disabilities care
* Experience of delivering defined outcomes against measurable targets
* Significant experience of complex clinical assessment and care planning
* Experience of working alongside service users with families and carers
* Experience of providing clinical supervision to a range of practitioners
* Substantial experience of caring for service users within inpatient settings
* Experience of working as a clinical leader in mental health/learning disability services
* Experience of making decisions in the context of complex care pathways
* Experience of managing clinical teams/services
* Knowledge of service or quality improvement frameworks/methodology
* Experience of team development and change
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to identify, challenge, report and address sub-optimal practice and to lead on team-wide improvement
* Able to articulate an advanced understanding of relevant frameworks, including CPA, rehabilitation and recovery models and appropriate legislation
* Highly developed verbal communication skills, able to engage effectively with people at all levels
* Highly developed active listening skills
* Able to lead a team with warmth and authority
* Highly developed written communication skills
* Ability to work autonomously and as part of a complex care system
* Ability to manage time and prioritise, particularly when working under pressure
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.
Address
Sycamore Ward and Cedar Ward - Hillview Lodge
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