Band 6 Clinical Lead

Coventry And Warwickshire Partnership Nhs Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust seeks an experienced nurse to work in a multi-disciplinary, age‑independent MH Acute inpatient service. You will ensure adherence to organisational systems, manage prioritisation and change, and provide clinical leadership and evidence‑based interventions.

You will support staff development, audit, guidelines and quality improvement to maintain high safety and care standards within the ward, while coordinating assessments and care plans with a

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification RMN/HCPC and ongoing CPD.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Held or willing to undertake Quality Improvement training.

Responsibilities

• Work as an integrated member of the team with a designated clinician caseload.
• Formulate and coordinate holistic mental and physical needs assessments.
• Serve as Nurse in Charge (NIC) and manage shifts.
• Supervise and develop junior staff, signing off competencies for students/trainees.
• Maintain robust care planning, review and safety plans, reporting to the multi‑professional team.
• Contribute to social and physical therapeutic environment development.
• Lead risk management across the ward, embedding risk processes and recording.

Skills

Excellent written communication

Excellent verbal communication

Organisational and delegation skills

Policy and procedure understanding

Education

RMN/HCPC registration

CPD (Continuing professional development)

Quality Improvement training

Job description

Job summary

The post holder will be required to work within a multi-disciplinary age independent, MH Acute inpatient service. The post holder will ensure that all organisational systems and processes are adhered to. The post holder will manage and organise competing and conflicting priorities and manage change in complex situations. The post holder will be a resource of clinical knowledge and competence in the service area contributing to staff and service development. They support on audit, guidelines and quality improvement approaches to ensure the highest standards of safety and quality in their area. The post holder will be required to undertake trusted assessments, provide evidence-based clinical interventions and clinical leadership.

Main duties of the job

• Work as an integrated member of the team, with all service users' needs within the unit, and hold a designated named clinician case load.
• Formulate and coordinating holistic assessment of mental and physical needs.
• To be Nurse in Charge (NIC) and shift management.
• To supervise and develop junior staff member, with responsibility for ensuring junior staff, students and trainees have specific role competency sign off.
• Ensure there is a robust process for care plan formulation, review, evaluate treatment and safety plans and report back to multi-professional team.
• Contribute to the maintenance and development of the social and physical therapeutic environment.
• Lead of all areas of risk management within the ward ensuring risk, including patient risk, positive risk taking, and environmental risk assessment is embedded and that trust processes around risk are adhered to and recorded.

About us

Candidate Information Pack Dec 24

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in‑house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description, person specification and supporting information. You can also contact Naomi Smith if you have specific questions that you cannot find on the advert or supporting information.

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant Professional Qualification i.e. RMN/HCPC
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Hold or be willing to undertake Quality Improvement training

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Excellent written communication skills
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Effective organisational and delegation skills
• Ability to demonstrate and apply understanding of policies and procedures

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of working with people with mental health needs
• Experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management.

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Reliable
• Enthusiastic
• Self-motivated
• Ability to work on own initiative Engaging, open and honest Personal resilience
• Able to demonstrate a non-judgemental and empathetic approach to service users
• Ability to work as part of a team and able to accept direction and leadership in carrying out duties

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).