Clinical Lead

South Cumbria Nhs Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust's Stevenson Ward is recruiting a band 6 RMN to join the ward as Clinical Lead within an established leadership team where you can develop your leadership skills.

You will provide role modelling and supervise staff, support learners, lead quality improvement projects, and oversee care for female service users with acute mental health needs while participating in 24/7 shifts and collaborating with other wards.

Qualifications

• Clinical supervision of staff and development of learners.
• Experience in audits and dissemination of results.
• Quality improvement initiatives to improve patient care and staff wellbeing.
• Experience nursing people with acute mental health needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide 24/7 care and treatment for female service users with acute mental health needs.
• Represent the ward at meetings and prepare reports, contributing to decision-making.
• Support and lead on quality improvement projects and staff wellbeing initiatives.
• Engage with learners and supervise junior staff, including students and preceptors.

Job description

Responsibilities will include providing meaningful clinical and managerial supervision to staff within the team; supporting and developing learners in practice; completion of audits and dissemination of information associated with these; supporting and leading on quality improvements; engaging with patients to support recovery, including leading on dialog+ assessments; ensuring that the clinical environments meet high infection control and cleaning standards; representing the ward at meetings which may involve preparing and presenting reports.

Stevenson Ward are looking to recruit a highly motivated and professional RMN to join the ward as band 6 Clinical Lead. In coming into this role, the successful candidate will join an already established leadership team, and will have opportunity to develop their leadership skills in a supportive environment.

The successful candidate will bring excellent role modelling skills, a passion for supporting and developing junior colleagues, including student nurses and preceptors, and they should have a keen interest in quality improvement projects that can lead to improvements in patient care and staff wellbeing.

You should bring with you experience of nursing people with acute mental health needs, as well as some experience of providing high quality supervision, an awareness of not just how to complete an audit but what to do with the data an audit provides us with, and be keen to develop your own skills once in post.

The successful candidate will be expected to work across a shift pattern, being part of a team that provides 24/7 care and treatment female service users with acute mental health needs. There will be occasions when you may need to support other wards, including our 136 suite, PICUs and older adult wards.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

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