Clinical Site Manager

Main area: Mental Health

Grade Band: 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Nights and weekends)

Job ref: 364-A-8670

Site: Derwent Centre

Town: Harlow

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 11/02/2025 23:59

About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. We are among the largest employers in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.

Our vision and values

Our Vision: “To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care.”

Our Purpose: “We care for people every day. What we do together, matters.”

Our Values:

• We Care
• We Empower

Our strategic objectives:

• We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
• We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
• We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
• We will help our communities to thrive.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to embark on a newly developed role of Clinical Site Manager within our newly refurbished inpatient facilities. The Clinical Site Manager is key to ensuring that services continue to operate in a clinically effective and safe manner during the overnight and weekend periods. Being the most senior individual on duty, you will provide clinical oversight and assurance across a given site/locality and be the first point of contact. You will be instrumental in maintaining and delivering high standards of quality care and patient safety.

This role involves both variety and complexity of working in a rapidly evolving programme of whole system change, presenting a fantastic opportunity to be part of our radical journey.

Main duties of the job

Key Dimensions: The role is supernumerary, with the opportunity to be based on a ward/unit dependent on clinical and operational need. We are looking for autonomous, driven, solution-focused and confident practitioner(s).

You will have formal and delegated authority to take managerial decisions pertaining to clinical, operational, and resource-related issues in the absence of the substantive Clinical Manager, working closely with other members of the senior on-call team.

You will be responsible for the implementation of high standards of care delivery, ensuring the service provided is needs-led, compliant with national guidance and is viewed positively by service users.

You will have the opportunity to influence and promote improved, dynamic and effective clinical practice across the service.

Please see job description for further details of the main duties.

Working for our organisation

EPUT is looking for motivated staff who share our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including:

• Season Ticket Loans
• NHS discounts for staff
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
• Day One Flexible Employer

The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see job description and specification for further details. Any queries please contact Mark Weetman, Service Manager - mark.weetman1@nhs.net

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

• Registration Mental Health Nurse RMN Part 3 ENB 998 or equivalent
• Postgraduate qualification degree or extensive experience of community mental health nursing
• Mentorship Preparation
• Meet the requirements for revalidation as set out by the NMC
• High standard of education
• Good written and spoken English
• Able to deliver from a range of possible key therapeutic interventions including CBT, Psychosocial interventions, Family Interventions, DBT approaches
• Highly specialist knowledge developed and supported by theory and experience

Managerial Experience

• Proven experience of working in a health/social care or acute setting as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of working with, supervising lower banded staff
• Managing the care of service users with highly complex needs
• Experience of dealing with confidential and sensitive information
• Provide clinical leadership to lower banded staff in medicines management in line with NMC Standards and Trust policies and procedures
• Manage and coordinate multi-disciplinary meetings i.e. referral/review/business/handover
• Demonstrate an understanding of the recovery principles
• Conduct specialist (including risk) assessments for service users/in the service user environment
• Extensive proven experience of working with service users with mental health conditions

Please note: staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Important Professional References: Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contact information covering your last three years of employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee, you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed.

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly. We would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Although Covid vaccinations are no longer a mandatory requirement within the NHS we continue to encourage and support the vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against Covid19. The safety of our staff and patients is a top priority for us at EPUT.

If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing epunft.cv19hr@nhs.net.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Come and work at EPUT and make a difference in people’s lives.

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