Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
The Physical Healthcare Lead is responsible for leading the strategic development and delivery of the Physical Healthcare Strategy across the Care Group. Working across the care units leadership teams to improve standards and reduce variation within physical healthcare and support innovation. The postholder will provide professional leadership and line management to the Physical Healthcare leads within each care unit, chair the Care Group Physical Healthcare Group contributing to the Trust's wider governance structure.
The post holder will lead on physical healthcare across the Care Group, working in partnership to drive forward service quality and improve patient and staff wellbeing. In doing so, working in collaboration with the Associate Director of Physical Healthcare, colleagues in the wider teams and disciplines across the trust as well as with all levels of the nursing structure to shape and develop the strategic approach to physical wellbeing. Liaising with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
A key responsibility for this role is in chairing the Physical Healthcare Group, influencing, and driving development, implementation and evaluation of strategies, organisational development and training plans; liaising with a range of both internal and external stakeholders in bringing in best practice solutions to achieve best practice and organisational objectives.
Please note the base for this role is flexible.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide strategic leadership, placing an emphasis on integration of physical health and mental health to organisational strategy, service development and ongoing service delivery, achieving high quality care and patient safety.
2. To work in conjunction with the Care Group leadership team, Director of Nursing and Operational managers, and other relevant stakeholders. To support the compliance of the hospital in terms of The Health and Social Care Act 2008 and the emerging requirements of the Care and Quality Commission.
3. To lead, promote, develop knowledge and management in respect of physical healthcare across all areas of the forensic Care Group. The patient population is from a diverse social, religious, and ethnic background and this is recognised through communications and interventions.
Job responsibilities
1. Plan and implement initiatives in response to the identified physical health needs of people with mental health problems and Learning Disabilities needing healthcare by developing a positive holistic view of health.
2. Be an expert practitioner, providing consultation on specialist programs of care within inpatient/community settings, modelling and disseminating best practice, and demonstrating recognition of cultural, social and spiritual needs.
3. Develop innovative assessment, screening and liaison protocols for people with a physical health care problem/need, advising the multidisciplinary team and external agencies, including primary care.
4. Use expert knowledge and experience in decision making.
5. Demonstrate a consistent and clear decision-making process underpinned by relevant theory.
6. Utilise clinical supervision to develop and enhance best practice in junior staff.
7. Lead on reducing health inequalities for patients by driving forward innovation and quality standards.
8. In collaboration with the AD for Physical Healthcare influence the Trust on priorities in relation to physical wellbeing issues for patients, while ensuring that the Care Group implements national and local policy and best practice.
9. Ensure that all aspects of nursing and multi-disciplinary care is delivered to agreed high standards which provide the best possible experience and outcome to service users across the Care Group.
10. Provide senior professional leadership, supporting nursing and other staff to bring about service transformation and improved patient care, and will lead the development of expert nursing practice and clinical leadership for Physical Healthcare.
11. Strategically lead on the delivery of the Trust's Physical Healthcare Strategic priorities while influencing local objectives and goals.
Person Specification
Contractual requirements
* Ability to regularly travel across Trust sites
Physical requirements
* Undertaken or willingness to undertake MVA training
Values and behaviours
* Act in line with trust values
* Demonstrate an understanding of EDI
Qualifications
* RGN or other applicable qualification
* Advanced clinical practitioner
Training
* Evidence of continual professional development
Experience
* Significant experience as a senior leader in a healthcare setting
* Significant experience of providing compassionate care for complex and vulnerable patients
* Experience of quality governance
* Experience or awareness of working in a culturally diverse area
* Teaching, developing and training colleagues
* Working with stakeholders at a national level
* Experience in a variety of healthcare settings
* Setting and monitoring evaluation standards of care
* Significant experience of working with patients and carers
* Facilitating and managing change
* Experience as a senior leader in the NHS
* Chairing action focused meetings
* Experience of managing change processes
Knowledge
* Specialist knowledge in managing complex physically and mentally unwell patients
* Demonstrable knowledge of quality governance
* Setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of care
* Mental Health Legislation including MHA and MCA
Skills
* Ability to interpret and analyse highly complex information
* High level of project management skills
* Negotiation and conflict management
* Establish and maintain good working relationships with direct reports and stakeholders
* Demonstrate consistent and clear decision making processes
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.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
£74,290 to £85,601 a year (pro rata for part time)
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