Clinical Lead in Nottingham

Cherry ward is an 18-bedded mixed sex inpatient unit for the assessment and treatment of clients with Functional type mental health problems, specifically but not exclusively depression, anxiety, and psychotic disorders.

As a Clinical Lead, your role is to improve and maintain clinical and professional practice whilst supporting the ward manager. A significant part of the role involves supporting band 5 Registered Nurses and healthcare Assistants on the ward, leading on and providing clinical and managerial supervision. You will be required to carry out audits, monitor and improve standards on the ward, and implement changes where necessary to enhance patient care.

Your responsibilities also include covering the senior nurse's role across the Highbury site on a rotational basis, overseeing the site and managing any issues that may arise out of hours, including fire alarms, staffing issues, sudden death, damage to hospital property, and other unforeseen emergencies.

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, forward-thinking, and motivated Clinical Lead with experience or a vested interest in working with our patient group. You should have a sound knowledge and understanding of mental health, person-centred care, physical health, and social needs relating to this patient group. We seek someone with the relevant knowledge and skills to provide clinical leadership to the ward's multidisciplinary team.

You will be a visible point of contact for junior staff requiring clinical guidance, expertise, and support in delivering high-quality, person-centred, and compassionate care. It is essential that you can work flexible hours over a 24-hour period, 7 days a week, on a 12-hour shift pattern. This post also incorporates Senior Nurse duties at Highbury.

Applicants should possess excellent organisational, communication, and problem-solving skills, be able to work alongside the ward manager, and have the personal characteristics to assist in leading a strong, experienced, and supportive team in a challenging and rewarding environment. A considerable degree of initiative, mature judgement, and the ability to maintain a calm, friendly, and efficient manner when dealing with patients, carers, colleagues, and visitors is essential.

Applicants must have at least 12 months of experience at Band 5 and have completed their preceptorship. You will be required to apply a high degree of confidentiality and professionalism to this work.

If you are looking for an exciting and challenging opportunity to work alongside the Ward Manager and other clinical leads to develop our inpatient ward vision, we would like to hear from you. You will need to demonstrate the necessary role modelling qualities in line with Trust Values to promote high standards of care and contribute to service development and transformation.

You will be expected to provide clinical and managerial supervision and appraisal systems for a group of staff while maintaining your own continuing professional development. You will also be expected to deputise in the absence of the Ward Manager and support the Ward Manager in maintaining effective team working processes, including e-rostering, sickness and attendance management, clinical audit, and PAD.

Please note that applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), and this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service, which has an annual fee of £16.

Qualifications:

• Maintains current registration with the NMC.
• Further specialist knowledge/post-registration experience in a specific service area or other formal training.
• Demonstrate continued professional development to maintain professional registration.

Training:

• Willingness to undertake new clinical practices, education, and training that will enhance service delivery.

Experience:

• Demonstrates satisfactory clinical expertise for the banding.
• Specialist and area-specific experience.
• The ability to deal with and resolve conflict.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge and understanding of current legislation and clinical risk assessments.
• Knowledge of the nursing 6 C's.
• Awareness of national and local issues impacting nursing care.
• Knowledge of management theories.

Skills:

• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to be flexible and handle conflict issues.
• Good skills in assessment, intervention, and evaluation of patients' nursing care.
• Clinical supervision skills.

Physical requirements:

• Able to undertake training in the management of violence reduction.
• Has the physical ability to perform the full range of nursing duties.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.