Clinical Deputy Manager Eden Ward

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Birmingham seeks a dynamic Deputy Clinical Lead for a low secure unit. The role involves overseeing patient care, ensuring safety and quality, and supporting a multi-disciplinary team. Ideal candidates will have a relevant nursing or allied health professional qualification, substantial experience in clinical settings, and commitment to improving patient care. Join a team rated 'Good' by the CQC and make a difference in patients' lives.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Wellbeing support

Discounts with retailers and restaurants

Qualifications

• Require substantial experience in clinical care with learning disabilities.
• Successful applicants must demonstrate effective organisational skills.
• Must possess current UK professional registration.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and coordinate holistic assessments for patients.
• Lead and coordinate adherence to safety and quality issues.
• Support staff training and quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Excellent written communication skills

Effective organisational and delegation skills

Excellent verbal communication skills

Education

Relevant Professional Qualification i.e. RNLD/RMN

Current unrestricted registration with NMC or HCPC

Evidence of continuing professional development

Quality Improvement training

Job description

Job Summary

At Brooklands Hospital we are committed to providing the best standard of care and experience for individuals whilst in an inpatient setting, supporting them to gain skills to reach their potential and maintain a good quality of life.

This post is required to support clinical leadership on the ward, with a focus on the safety and quality aspects of patient care. The role is critical to the timely management of incidents, supporting the MDT and driving the patient’s input to co‑produced services. It ensures the ward team benefits from visible clinical support/direction and enables a firm career structure for succession planning.

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Deputy Clinical Lead for Eden Ward, a low secure unit for up to 13 women with forensic and complex trauma histories. This is interesting, at times challenging, but very rewarding work.

This is an exciting time to join the team. The secure services have been rated "Good" by the CQC and Eden Ward is enrolled in the national Culture of Care programme. We are also working to explore how women's secure care can be transformed and improved.

Previous experience in inpatient care and/or secure services is essential.

Main Duties

The post holder will work within a multi‑disciplinary learning disability inpatient service, ensuring all organisational systems and processes are adhered to. They will manage and organise competing priorities, manage change in complex situations, and be a resource of clinical knowledge and competence, contributing to staff and service development.

The post holder will work over a 24‑hour period and support audit, guidelines and quality improvement approaches to ensure the highest standards of safety and quality. They will undertake trusted assessments, provide evidence‑based clinical interventions and clinical leadership.

The post holder will be expected to gain skills in operational management responsibilities and in quality and safety improvement approaches as part of their Band 6 position within inpatient care.

About Us

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

• Formulate and coordinate holistic assessment and treatment of mental and physical needs of patients.
• Undertake periods of the role as Nurse in Charge (NIC) and role model effective shift management.
• Supervise and develop junior staff members, ensuring junior staff, students and trainees have specific role competency sign‑off.
• Ensure a robust process for care plan formulation, review, evaluation of treatment and safety plans and report back to the multi‑professional team.
• Develop and maintain professional working relationships with the multidisciplinary team.
• Support the Clinical Lead in the maintenance and development of the social and physical therapeutic environment.
• Support risk management within the ward, including patient risk, positive risk taking and environmental risk assessment, ensuring trust processes are adhered to and recorded.
• Lead and maintain high standards of clinical care, delivering service based on evidence, clinical and professional judgement.
• Identify needs to facilitate safe discharge.
• Lead and coordinate the adherence to and reporting of safety and quality issues; report any concerns immediately and actively carry out clinical audits on the AMAT platform and follow up on identified actions.
• Have a detailed working knowledge of key partnership services and organisations (e.g. voluntary sector, social services, housing), including their eligibility criteria and access procedures.
• Lead and maintain a learning environment, providing supervision and guidance to identified junior staff and students. Undertake the role of practice assessor.
• Lead on quality improvement and liaise with the Quality Improvement team to support areas of practice development and coordinate staff training in improvement approaches.
• Support staff training and development in all areas appropriate to inpatient care.

Person Specification

Qualifications (Essential)

• Relevant Professional Qualification i.e. RNLD/RMN or relevant allied health professional qualification
• Current unrestricted registration with NMC or HCPC
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Hold or be willing to undertake Quality Improvement training

Knowledge (Essential)

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

Experience (Essential)

• Substantial experience working in a clinical care setting with people with learning disabilities and/or autism and mental health diagnoses
• Significant experience of undertaking assessment, formulation, risk assessment and positive risk management

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a submission for Disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous convictions.

UK Registration

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

Employer Details

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust

Brooklands
Marston Green
B37 7HL

Employer website: https://www.covwarkpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)