Clinical Lead Nurse

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Kendal; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services is seeking a dedicated Nurse Clinical Lead for the Community Mental Health Team in Kendal. This role offers the chance to lead a compassionate team, ensuring adherence to best practices and providing expert clinical knowledge to support service users and colleagues. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in mental health settings, a strong commitment to person-centered care, and the ability to foster a culture of learning and development. Join a forward-thinking organization that values diversity and is committed to providing the highest quality of care for the community.

Qualifications

• Erfahrener und motivierter registrierter psychiatrischer Krankenschwester.
• Nachgewiesene Erfahrung in der Betreuung und Unterstützung von Patienten.

Responsibilities

• Führung und Unterstützung des Teams mit professioneller und klinischer Leitung.
• Sicherstellung einer personenzentrierten Versorgung für die Nutzer.

Skills

Kommunikationsfähigkeiten

Interpersonelle Fähigkeiten

Stressmanagement

Mentoring

Education

Registrierte/r psychiatrische/r Krankenschwester/Krankenpfleger

Postgraduierten-Diplom

Mentorship-Kurs

Job description

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:

1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.

An opportunity has arisen for a key position of Nurse Clinical Lead for the Community Mental Health Team in the Kendal and South Lakes area.

As a Nurse Clinical Lead within the Community Mental Health Team, you will be an experienced and motivated registered Mental Health Nurse.

The role of the Community Mental Health Team is to provide assessment and community-based interventions, which is undertaken in partnership with referred individuals and focuses on individual needs, self-determination, and recovery.

As a Nurse Clinical Lead you will support the team with professional and clinical leadership, promoting a culture of learning and person-centered care, whilst promoting the Trust values.

Main duties of the job

The Nurse Clinical Lead will ensure service users are receiving a compassionate and person-centered service; ensuring adherence to the standard operating procedures, implementing quality improvement initiatives and best practice guidance and leading by example. Some of the key duties will include:

1. Provide expert clinical knowledge and interventions, advice, support and supervision in the Community Mental Health Team to colleagues, service users, families and carers.
2. To ensure clinical caseloads are managed working in partnership with team leaders, through effective clinical oversight, clinical audit, and clinical pathways to promote recovery.
3. Supporting and supervising students and newly qualified staff members through preceptorship within the team.
4. Encouraging a culture of learning and continuing professional development.
5. Working together with the Team Lead in implementing learning from serious incidents and risks within the team with support from the Trust Safety Team, Clinical Governance Lead and Senior Management.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse with NMC
• Post-registration experience and/or evidence of formal courses and training at post-graduate diploma level
• Mentorship Course, including Clinical Supervision Training

Knowledge

• Significant demonstrable post qualification experience at Band 6 working in a mental health/community specialist setting or equivalent.
• Experience of developing, delivering and evaluating specialist programmes of care and risk management plans.
• Evidence of successful mentoring and/or supervision of junior members of staff including students

Skills

• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to demonstrate diplomacy, tact and negotiation skills
• Ability to manage highly stressful and emotive situations.
• Current knowledge of the policy and challenges facing NHS providers

Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.

LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation.