37.5 hours per week. A rare opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic & committed band 6 RMN/OT/SW to join our successful & highly motivated team as a deputy unit manager. You will support the manager & senior team to ensure the team provides high standards of care to service users within a Low Secure Environment. You will provide clinical leadership, experience & act as a decision maker within the staff team.
Lee Mill LSU is a 12-bed male inpatient ward set just outside of Plymouth. We provide specialist mental health care to men who require a high level of risk management due to their histories & complex mental health difficulties. The staff are passionate about providing the highest level of patient centred care to an often challenging & disadvantaged patient group.
The Lee Mill team have been the recipients of the Mary Seacole Peoples award celebrating our dedication to promote recovery & work collaboratively with our patient group, the kindness & respect demonstrated by the team and the high number of successful discharges out of secure care.
We offer a comprehensive, supportive induction programme with access to further training & continuing professional development training including essential training for staff working within secure services.
All staff are required to attend PMVA training to ensure we can meet the needs of our patients & remain effective in maintaining the safety & wellbeing of all. This post covers a 24/7 shift pattern inclusive of nights.
Main duties of the job
* Provide high standards of care to service users within a Low Secure environment
* To provide clinical leadership, experience and act as a decision maker within the staff team
* To line manage a group of staff to include undertaking caseload management
* To ensure adequate staffing levels and undertake ongoing monitoring of safer staffing levels on shifts and at times of acuity and increased risk.
* To have knowledge of areas of performance in aspects of finance, workforce, safety and quality and contribute to performance monitoring reviews and processes
* To have knowledge of and contribute to elements of timely submissions and responses to weekly, monthly and quarterly data required in line with commissioning contracting requirements outlined by the South West Provider Collaborative (SWPC)
* Implement quality improvement initiatives in line with Commissioning, governance and best practice frameworks and standards.
* To liaise with regional Commissioners and Case Managers and prioritise bed management co-ordination for regional secure pathway at the Unit Manager request.
* All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
* Protected CPD time for registered staff
* Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
* Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
* A Robust Preceptorship
* A bespoke induction programme
* Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job responsibilities
Key Tasks and Responsibilities of the Post
* Deputising for the Manager in a variety of meetings and forums and ability to contribute in a meaningful way or as part of personal development.
* To have an understanding of the organisation performance requirements and monthly data submissions and ability to contribute to tasks delegated by the Unit Manager
* To act as professional leader in response to clinical practice issues which are often complex and urgent
* Contribute to Human Resources issues such as providing line management supervision to an agreed number of clinical staff. This would incorporate managing sickness absence, staff appraisal and performance issues in line with the organisations policies and procedures.
* Ensure that there is effective delegation of responsibilities to other team members utilising and developing their skills and abilities.
* Contribute to creative creation of the roster for the team to ensure staff covers across seven days and effective use of resources. Awareness and responsive to staffing levels on an ongoing basis in the best interests of patient and staff safety using dynamic risk assessment techniques.
* To liaise between the unit and other services in the pathway and community teams in order to improve care pathway opportunities for service users.
* Requirement to engage in auditing as part of ongoing service development, able to contribute to the collection of data and clinical information for reporting purposes and commissioning requirements as delegated by the Unit Manager.
To undertake SIRI, Complaints and HR investigations as per organisational requirements
* Support bed management and flow using electronic bed management system for the Low Secure Pathway for Lee Mill Unit. To include undertaking access assessments using relevant access criteria and approved assessments in line with regional guidance as delegated by the Unit Manager.
* To maintain extensive knowledge of the patient flow through the unit and expected date of discharge and escalate any barriers to discharge.
* Ensure that whiteboards meetings or equivalent are held on a regular basis and participate when required.
* Participate in the peer review process on an annual basis and membership of the Quality Network. This requires a process of self-assessment against Royal college of Psychiatry standards and continuous review, action planning and audit.
* Support the monitoring around compliance and delivery of standards of care within the unit adhere to service specification for low secure units. This will include compliance with staff training specific to staff in low secure services and matters that relate to procedural and relational security
* Provide clinical expertise on service user care in a supportive/mentoring and empowering role to the nursing team
* Facilitate the effective use and development of multi-disciplinary team meetings and the effective review of service user care using the CPA framework and My Shared Pathway
* To undertake change processes in the best interest of patient safety, service development improvements using QI methodology or other effective tools.
* To contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of a range of audits within the service area, e.g. health and safety, infection control, specific clinical audits, NICE and NPSA.
Person Specification
Experience
* Transferable skills of working at a senior level for at least 1.5 years
* Experience of supervising and managing staff
* Experience of providing clinical and or managerial supervision
* Relevant transferable healthcare experience of working with adults with a history of mental health issues.
* Awareness of HR processes and their application
* Knowledge of least restrictive principles in inpatient services
Skills
* Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner within a team including:
* Communication and liaison skills.
* Self-management ability.
* Interpersonal skills.
* Crisis management.
* Lone working.
* Audit
* Supervision of Junior Staff with experience of delivering effective Line Management, Appraisals and development of Personal Development Plans
* Ability to recognise and support stress in others.
* Group Interaction Skills.
* Specific Therapeutic interventions.
* Good working knowledge of the Care Quality Commission.
Qualifications
* Relevant Professional Qualification (RMN, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist etc.).
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio and Revalidation with professional body
* Current live registration with a recognised professional body such as NMC/HCPC
* To hold a managerial/leadership qualification
* To hold a coaching qualification
* Hold a post graduate qualification relevant to role
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.
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