Clinical Deputy Manager Eden Ward

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust; Metropolitan Borough of Solihull; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Solihull is seeking a Deputy Clinical Lead for Eden Ward, a Low Secure Unit specializing in the care of women. The role involves supporting clinical leadership, ensuring safety and quality of patient care, and developing junior staff members. Ideal candidates will have experience in inpatient care and strong clinical knowledge. This position offers generous annual leave, excellent learning opportunities, and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Excellent learning and development opportunities

Salary sacrifice schemes

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Previous experience in inpatient care and/or secure services is essential.
• Ability to ensure organisational systems and processes are adhered to.
• Strong clinical knowledge and competence to contribute to service development.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and coordinate holistic assessment and treatment of patients.
• Supervise and develop junior staff members.
• Lead high standards of clinical care and maintain service delivery.

Skills

Inpatient care experience

Leading change in complex situations

Clinical knowledge and competence

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Job description

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 and direction, and it 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 an interesting, at times challenging, but very rewarding work. It 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.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in inpatient care and/or secure services is essential.
• Experience working within a multi‑disciplinary learning disability inpatient service.
• Ability to ensure organisational systems and processes are adhered to, manage competing priorities and lead change in complex situations.
• Strong clinical knowledge and competence to contribute to staff and service development.
• Must be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service if required.

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 role‑specific competency sign‑off for junior staff, students and trainees.
• Maintain 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 maintaining and developing 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 high standards of clinical care and maintain service delivery based on evidence, clinical and professional judgement.
• Identify needs to facilitate safe discharge.
• Lead and coordinate adherence to and reporting of safety & quality issues; report concerns immediately and carry out clinical audits on the AMAT platform, following up on actions identified.
• Maintain detailed working knowledge of key partnership services and organisations (e.g. voluntary sector, social services, housing), including 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 Practise 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.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, it is a mandatory requirement that all newly appointed staff are registered with the DBS Update Service where applicable.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications regardless of age, gender, race, disability or sexual orientation. Guidance and criteria on filtering criminal cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website.

Benefits

• 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 a 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 groups.