Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge? Feeling ready to take up a leadership role? Passionate about delivering psychosocial interventions and improving the quality of nursing care in forensic inpatient settings?
We have an exciting new role at Marlborough House, Milton Keynes, for a Specialist Clinical Lead Nurse within our forensic inpatient team.
We are seeking a committed individual to work as part of the Clinical Leadership team to promote nurse-led psychosocial interventions and implement the vision for inpatient care.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for developing and maintaining a programme of individual and group psychosocial interventions and regularly evaluating the impact of interventions incorporating patient and carer feedback.
This will require proactive engagement with patients/families and carers to build positive working alliances to support the provision of psychosocial interventions.
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 you are encouraged to read the “candidate guide to making an application” which is attached to all roles.
Please include details around qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and ensure that the supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East 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”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
· Excellent opportunities for career progression
· Individual and Trust wide learning and development
· 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
· NHS Discount
· Pension scheme
· Lease car scheme
· Employee Assistance Programme
· Mental Health First Aiders
· Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
· Staff networking and support groups
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role also involves supporting the wider nursing team to develop their skills at delivering psychosocial interventions through supervision and working within multidisciplinary teams to provide effective needs led care for our patient group.
The successful candidate will have completed Brief Interventions Module (or equivalent) or be willing to undertake at the earliest opportunity.
For further information please see the job description in the documents section.
Person specification
Knowledge/skills/qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Registered mental health nurse
2. Experience of applying psychosocial approaches to clinical practice
3. Knowledge and understanding of psychosocial interventions
4. Excellent organisational skills and able to manage own time effectively
5. Has completed brief interventions module or equivalent OR will undertake at earliest opportunity
Desirable criteria
6. Knowledge of monitoring systems, targets and processes used within mental health
7. Understanding of/ experience in quality improvement methodology
8. Experience of mental health nursing in secure settings
Personal management/qualities
Essential criteria
9. Employs own strategies to manage stress conditions and promote/support emotional wellbeing and resilience
10. Excellent organisational skills and able to manage own time effectively
11. Able to meet the needs of the service in respect of flexible working hours, deployment and work bases
Teaching / education / mentoring
Essential criteria
12. Skills in supporting the development of the nursing team through teaching (1:1 and group)
13. Good presentation skills
Desirable criteria
14. Experience in supervision
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
21. 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