Inpatient Nurse Team Leader

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced and growing organisation. We are looking for a Nurse Team Leader to support our clinical provision of Residential Service across our Passmores House Service.

Main duties of the job

• Provide visible, effective clinical leadership to the nursing team in the service.
• Supported by the Medical Lead and in collaboration with the Area Director and Service Manager, ensure the delivery of safe, effective, evidence-based and compassionate care.
• Provide line management and supervision of the nurses.
• Coordination and oversight of nursing activities.
• Lead on clinical governance and respond to internal and external audits and reviews.

You will:

• Be part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team that is delivering an excellent detoxification and rehabilitation service.
• Provide support to a group of people who use our service and work collaboratively with colleagues and other key stakeholders.
• Deliver evidence-based, low threshold interventions and harm reduction advice.
• Encourage individuals to develop external interests and build on their support networks and develop recovery capital to support community reintegration.
• Adopt an empathic and non-judgmental approach, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging scenarios and behaviours.
• Demonstrate good time management and teamwork.

About us

At Via, our mission is to provide the best health and wellbeing support to as many people as possible, helping them to change their lives for the better. Last year, we supported over 11,000 people across the UK affected by alcohol and drug use. Everything we do is driven by our values:

• Care. Care for people is at the heart of everything we do.
• Be human. We are accessible, genuine and humble. Always learning.
• Do the right thing. We’re open, honest and inclusive. We get things done.

We want to recruit the very best talent. We believe in nurturing a positive workplace culture where our colleagues feel valued, recognised, empowered, and supported.

Job responsibilities

Role Purpose: Be a key part of the leadership team, driving the delivery of excellent services, ensuring compliance with service contractual obligations, key performance indicators and responding to internal and external (e.g., CQC) audits and reviews.

• Lead, line manage and coordinate the inpatient nurse team.
• Take the lead in specific designated areas, supporting to deliver strategic and operational goals.
• Provide leadership and management for the inpatient nurses, including regular supervision.
• Be responsible for the day-to-day nursing practice within the unit.
• Lead all aspects of clinical audit and regulatory reviews.
• Participate in Management Meetings to represent the views of the nursing team.
• Develop and deliver new ways of working to respond to the needs of our service users and the business.
• Ensure the delivery of high standards of nursing care and support to service users as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Oversee nursing practice within the unit, contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation and care planning, interventions and evaluations for clients.
• Oversee the formulation of comprehensive, person-centred assessments, risk assessments and treatment plans.
• Be a positive role model in providing an essential nurturing, warm, containing and stabilising human presence alongside the other clinical MDT members.
• Oversee the safe administration of medicine within relevant organisational and legislative guidance.
• Ensure that the storage and management of medication safety include weekly/monthly audits in line with the Via audit programme.
• Have delegated responsibility and ensure a safe working environment, reporting all incidents or potential hazards.
• Adhere to and lead all unit staff to follow the Health and Safety policy and procedures.
• Attend MDT and occupancy meetings and provide nursing input ensuring all required clinical information is available and considered.
• Work with the consultant, clinic nurses and recovery practitioners to ensure the required documentation is available to inform the MDT.
• Ensure all nursing staff adhere to the CQC standards and regulations at all times.
• Ensure that all IPC practices are fully embedded within the clinic in line with local and national policy.
• Lead and participate in untoward incident management investigations as required.
• Comply with legal rules, statutory regulations and professional responsibilities relating to practice as outlined in NMC’s "The Code": Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives.
• Maintain standards of record keeping and associated administration in accordance with Via policy and professional guidelines.
• Lead the ongoing review and update of relevant policies to include documentation audits.

Person specification for the role

• Passion for working with substance misuse services or with other socially excluded or vulnerable groups.
• Registered Mental Health or General Health Nurse.
• Post qualification experience required.
• Managerial experience.
• Robust understanding of safeguarding and evidence of experience of upholding principles of safeguarding for both adults and children.
• An understanding of drug and alcohol misuse and related issues, such as health, with experience of working with a wide-ranging client group to reduce risk taking behaviours.
• Proven commitment to working flexibly to respond to service needs.
• Proven ability to work autonomously and have a strong awareness of the issues facing people with dependence to alcohol and other drugs.
• Excellent time management skills, the ability to work on own initiative, manage competing priorities and consistently maintain high standards.

Responsibilities for all Via staff:

• Work within the Via values of Care, Be human and Do the right thing.
• Support and collaborate with all colleagues and engage with the wider organisation.
• Promote and deliver positive, inclusive and anti-discriminatory practices in line with VIA policies, professional and sector requirements, and legislative frameworks.
• Act on all Safeguarding concerns so that all statutory and organisational Safeguarding responsibilities are met and that all learning is shared.
• Observe professional integrity and candour at all times and with all people.
• Comply with all organisational policies and procedures including GDPR and all Health and Safety policy and guidance.
• Regularly participate in one-to-one / supervision sessions, objective setting and review, training, practice and learning forums.
• Commitment to learning and to continuously improve everyone’s knowledge and skills.
• Work flexibly to enable the delivery of effective services.

If you’re someone who is a good listener, stays curious, and wants to make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.