Ward Manager Private CAMHS
Reference
PRI97248
Location
Priory Hospital Roehampton, Priory Lane, Roehampton, SW15 5JJ
Priory Group Division
Healthcare
Salary
Up to £58,000
Hours
37.5
Vacancy Type
Permanent - Full Time
Job Advert - Division Information
To provide Clinical Management and Leadership to the combined nursing team across two CAMHS Wards (6 and 10 bedded private patients)
This includes being a highly visible role model and mentor to the nursing team.
The post-holder has responsibility for overseeing and maintaining the highest standards of nursing care. The role will act as a senior clinical member of the team, providing advice and support from a nursing perspective and oversee and hold responsibility for the ward environment and its resources.
• Manages the combined ward and resources effectively, taking steps to ensure that appropriate staffing levels and skill mix of nursing experience and skills is in place, including effective rota management, annual leave/training arrangements and sickness and absence management.
• Ensures that all members of the combined nursing team receive clinical supervision, appraisal, CPD requirements and complete mandatory training.
• Addresses shortfalls in development and ensures that training and performance issues are addressed.
• Recognises and rewards positive performance by the nursing staff, commensurate with their roles and responsibilities.
• Acts as a highly visible role model, mentor and leader, creating a culture that promotes learning, development, inquiry and professionalism, celebrates achievements and shares learning to the benefit of the combined wards, hospital and wider division.
• Disseminates implements and monitors compliance with relevant policies and statutory requirements of the hospital, division and group.
• Takes appropriate action to ensure that the standard of care that patients receive is of the highest standard.
• Ensures that all patients have clear current care plans that reflect their personalised needs, and are evidence based and ensures that family members and carers are suitable engaged based on the needs and wants of the patient.
• Makes sure that the physical healthcare needs of patients are assessed and managed effectively, alongside their mental health and psychological needs equally.
• Ensure the combined CAMHS wards have clear procedures and processes to support the safe and effective running of the unit at all times, including the nutrition of patients, cleanliness of the environment; using tools such as Quality Walk Rounds to assist.
• Actively contributes to the recruitment and retention of staff to the combined CAMHS wards and hospital.
• Ensures that clinical communication, records, handovers, reports and other patient related information is conveyed and recorded promptly and accurately.
• Develops and maintains strong and effective working relationships with all clinical and non-clinical colleagues.
• Promotes and applies the requirements of diversity and equality.
• Undertakes and completes clinical investigations and complaints and also HR investigations, ensuring these are completed thoroughly, promptly and to a high standard.
• Ensures that the legislative frameworks regarding the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberties is applied in accordance with Priory Policy, and National Requirements.
• Is responsible for medicines management in the combined CAMHS clinical wards, and ensures that all Registered Nurses undergo competency based assessments as part of their induction and facilitates an open and transparent framework for managing medicine errors.
• Liaises with the unit pharmacist and acts promptly regarding items identified by pharmacist audits, or other requirements.
• Ensures that incident reporting is completed promptly and takes corrective action where required, engaging colleagues in the process, where appropriate.
• Leads team reviews of incidents; makes sure that staff receive incident debriefs in a timely way.
• Engages with other members of the MDT, to facilitate positive and efficient MDT working
• Deputises for the Director of Clinical Services as required.
• Takes on additional responsibilities including clinical audits for their combined CAMHS wards and the site, participates in providing induction training and recruitment events.
• Ensures effective communication with external stakeholders and professionals involved in our patient care.
• Provides cover and support to the wider team and site as and when needed
• Are expected to take part in the onsite on call rota
Job Advert Location Description
• Must be registered with either NMC– with background of working experience within CAMHS inpatient services would be desirable
• Willingness to complete further clinical, managerial and leadership training and development relevant to CAMHS and in management and leadership.
• Competent computer skills
• Staff rostering capability and knowledge
At least 2 years experience in a supervisory/ senior capacity within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health clinical setting
Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience of clinical audit and/ or service improvement based on evidence desirable
Experience of working in an environment that requires the ability to manage multiple priorities
Has experience in management and leadership of teams.
The post-holder is required to have a clear and positive communication style both verbally and non-verbally; they will be required to provide written and verbal information in a succinct manner in a way that is understood by those that they are communicating with; they will need to provide information by email, but use this as a tool when appropriate and not as an alternative to face to face or verbal communication unless circumstances dictate this.
Disclosure
All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer.
No agencies please
If you forward any CV’s to the Priory Group and you are not on the Priory Group PSL and have not been asked to work on the above role we will accept the CV as a gift.