Band 6 Clinical Lead

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly dedicated Bank 6 clinical Lead Nurse to join Swanswell Ward, one of our inpatient mental health teams based at The Caludon Centre, Coventry.

We welcome applicants who are committed to improve care for people who require inpatient mental health services and innovate practice within a ward setting. Applicants will need to have substantial post registration experience

Main duties of the job

The post holders will be part of the Nursing team and work a span of duty including weekends and nights, to ensure that a high level of quality care is maintained. As part of the role you will support the Ward Manager in all aspects of delivering safe care to patient group with an emphasis of ensuring quality and safety is maintained within the ward at all times.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Description

The post holder will be required to work within a multi-disciplinary age independent, MH inpatient service.  The post holder will ensure that all organisational systems and processes are adhered to. The post holder will manage and organise competing and conflicting priorities and manage change in complex situations. The post holder will be a resource of clinical knowledge and competence in the service area contributing to staff and service development. They support on audit, guidelines and quality improvement approaches to ensure the highest standards of safety and quality in their area. The post holder will be required to undertake trusted assessments, provide evidence-based clinical interventions and clinical leadership.

The post holder will be expected to gain skills in operational management responsibilities and in quality and safety improvement approaches as part of their Band 6 position within inpatient care.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POST

-Work as an integrated member of the team, with all service users’ needs within the unit, and hold a designated named clinician case load.

-Formulate and coordinating holistic assessment of mental and physical needs.

• -To be Nurse in Charge (NIC) and shift management. -To supervise and develop junior staff member, with responsibility for ensuring junior staff, students and trainees have specific role competency sign off.

-Ensure there is a robust process for care plan formulation, review, evaluate treatment and safety plans and report back to multi-professional team.

• -Contribute to the maintenance and development of the social and physical therapeutic environment. -Lead of all areas of risk management within the ward ensuring risk, including patient risk, positive risk taking, and environmental risk assessment is embedded and that trust processes around risk are adhered to and recorded. -Responsible for leading high standards of clinical care and maintaining service delivery based on evidence, clinical and professional judgement. - Responsible for identifying needs to facilitate safe discharge.

-To   lead and coordinate the adherence to and reporting of safety & quality issues and report any concerns immediately.

• -Have a detailed working knowledge of key partnership services and organisations (i.e. voluntary sector, social services, housing), including their eligibility criteria and access procedures. -To lead and maintain a learning environment, via mentorship, supervision and guidance to identified junior staff and students.

-To lead on Quality Improvement and liaise with the Quality Improvement team to support areas of practice development and to coordinate staff training in improvement approaches.

• -To support staff training and development in all areas appropriate to inpatient care. -To lead on improving patient experience and co-production on the Ward -To provide senior leadership across the acute system as deemed necessary.