Senior Clinical Nurse

Job overview

We are looking for a Senior Clinical Nurse who is enthusiastic, hardworking, and dedicated to working with Young People and Families to join our team at the Darwin Centre.

The successful applicant will have the opportunity to further develop their knowledge and clinical skills around Trauma informed care, Children’s Safeguarding, intensive treatment options for a wide range of Mental Health disorders, formulating and managing risk and DBT skills.

There will be chances to receive teaching sessions from other specialist CAMHS services such as The Croft Children’s and Family Unit and The Beacon eating disorder service.  The three units work closely together and often team members from each unit spend time across each ward. Our extensive Multidisciplinary team comprises of Occupational Therapy, Social work, Psychiatrist Consultant, Family Therapy, a Psychology team, and Nursing team.  There will also be exciting opportunity to work with external agencies and CPFT CAMH Home Treatment and Crisis Teams to provide collaborative treatment and care plans and to ensure smooth transition of care when leaving hospital.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will work alongside these professionals to provide wholistic care to the Young People and Families within our service.

The post holder will work alongside an experienced Multidisciplinary team with Young People and their families experiencing a wide range of Mental Health difficulties, to provide 24-hour inpatient care.  You will be required to work alongside the Clinical Nurse specialist, Ward Manager and other senior nurses to act as a clinical and professional role model within the team.  The Senior Clinical Nurse is aligned with the Darwin Centre Clinical Nurse Specialist and will support in continuing professional development on the ward, managing complex cases and service improvement.

As part of the team, you will be supporting the Young People and their families with tools to manage their Mental Health difficulties, helping them to develop plans to manage when they are experiencing Crisis and care plans to provide interventions which will make a lasting change across their life.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• To be responsible for supervising the role of the named nurses in relation to care planning within the clinical area.
• To work alongside the Clinical Nurse Specialist on complex cases
• To work alongside the Clinical Nurse Specialist on service improvement
• To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the evidence based care required, including health promotion for a named service user/group ensuring it meets Trust timescales.
• To participate in the setting of quality standards, including the monitoring and reviewing in line with current clinical guidance practice and policy. Utilising the data available such as learning from incidences and complaints.
• To ensure the post holder understands and meets their professional role and responsibilities under the Care Programme Approach.
• To ensure that the requirements of the Mental Health Act 2007 are observed, adhered to and implemented.
• To be responsible for the promotion of carer and service user involvement within the service and for its provision. To encourage recovery, discovery and independence, taking into account risk assessment and management.
• To be responsible for establishing therapeutic relationships with service users, and the implementation of evidence based therapeutic interventions with appropriate boundaries in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Councils professional code of conduct.
• To ensure the provision of social/therapeutic activities for service users.