Clinical Safety Lead

Job summary

The Clinical Safety Lead will be at the forefront of transforming our services into a beacon of least restrictive, person-centred care. This dynamic leader will champion evidence-based practices while setting and elevating the professional standards for care and therapeutic engagement within our facilities.

In this pivotal role, the Safety Lead will provide expert clinical guidance, especially for cases involving highly complex needs and challenging behaviours, with a specific focus on those requiring enhanced therapeutic and safe support.

Main duties of the job

As an autonomous practitioner, the Clinical Safety Lead will offer advanced clinical expertise, delivering critical advice, coaching, and constructive feedback to empower clinical teams. They will support and lead on elements of the Trust\’s clinical safety and reducing restrictive practices programs, co-ordinating best practices. Their influence will extend to shaping and contributing to the RRP educational program and clinical practice guidelines, ensuring that our staff are equipped with the latest knowledge and skills. The role will be responsible for the RESPECT team and will help the team to deliver the training to staff in the organisation across disciplines and in doing so fully utilise their skills and experience to support the objectives of the Trust objectives by delivering coaching, training, support and advice to clinical teams.

The post holder is responsible for devising, synthesising, creating and updating regular restrictive practice data reports from a number of resource platforms and disseminating this information across the Trust and to external organisations including NHS Digital, CQC, Special Commissioners, Respect and BILD.

In addition to their clinical leadership, the Clinical Safety Lead will drive research initiatives that enhance clinical practices across the Trust. They will not only inspire a culture of continuous improvement but also play a vital role in shaping the future of patient care.

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of \’Outstanding\’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers – everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like to work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Job responsibilities

For more detailed information about this vacancy please see the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING

Essential

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• Advanced knowledge in area of clinical expertise
• Extensive knowledge of relevant legal frameworks such as the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and the Use of Force Act with respect to its relationship to restrictive practice
• Strong value base which drives practice
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Leadership and management skills
• Good communication, both written and verbal
• Knowledge of the role of partner organisations
• Thorough understanding of the policy/standards agenda in relation to area of clinical expertise, and an understanding of the broader policy drivers pertinent to healthcare delivery
• Knowledge of contemporary practice and best practice
• Ability to work in collaboration with colleagues
• Ability to work autonomously in taking critical decisions
• Ability to manage, supervise and support staff
• Strategic planning
• Project Management Skills

Desirable

• Masters qualification in health related subject or equivalent experience
• BILD Accredited Senior Professional Lead.
• Ability to undertake critical analysis of complex policy information and synthesise into an interpretable format

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Experience at a senior clinician level in area of clinical expertise
• Experience of clinical leadership and change management
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries in the development and provision of services

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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK Registration

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