Clinical Team Leader - Lavender Walk

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 42 000 - 54 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

NHS staff discounts

Flexible working

On-site school with teachers

Résumé du poste

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust’s Lavender Walk unit seeks a Clinical Team Leader from nursing backgrounds to develop leadership and therapeutic skills for adolescents aged 13–18. You’ll work in a supportive, skilled team with input from psychology, family therapy and occupational therapy leads.

Based in Chelsea, the role emphasizes patient-centred care, staff development and collaboration with families and carers to achieve strong outcomes for young people with mental health

Qualifications

• Teaching, supervision and managerial experience coordinating patient care.
• Knowledge of mental disorders, child development, mental health law and the nursing process.
• Understanding of current issues in children’s and mental health nursing.
• Awareness of safeguarding and PREP requirements for revalidation.

Responsabilités

• Support the ward manager in day-to-day running of the ward.
• Lead on champion roles and drive continuous improvement within the nursing team.
• Lead on nursing feedback in ward rounds and professional meetings.
• Take on the Primary Nurse role for individual young people.
• Develop junior staff and act as a role model.
• Ensure patient-centred, safe and effective care for CYP and families.
• Put children and families at the centre of all actions.
• Maintain a welcoming, clean and safe ward environment.
• Monitor observations and ensure safe practice per unit procedures.
• Supervise junior staff and students to ensure delivery of care.

Connaissances

Leadership & supervision

Child & adolescent MH

Nursing process

Safeguarding

Budget & resource mgmt

Formation

Registered Mental Health Nurse

NMC Registered Nurse (Child)

Description du poste

Job Overview

Welcome to CNWL Mental Health Inpatient Services for Children and Young People. Lavender Walk is an inpatient unit looking after children and young people aged 13 -18. We are looking to recruit Clinical Team Leaders from all nursing backgrounds to broaden and develop the experience and skill mix available to young people at Lavender Walk.

We need innovative, dynamic people interested in developing their leadership skills in a supportive and highly skilled team. There will be opportunities to develop your therapeutic skills with our psychology, family therapy and occupational therapy leads.

Set in the heart of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Lavender Walk is a Tier 4 Adolescent Unit which aims to provide a comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and treatment package, for young people with mental health conditions whose level of need can no longer be met safely in the community. We work in a collaboratively with the patients, their family and carers, and local voluntary services.

We appreciate that not everyone has provided care for young people, but if you’re a Registered Paediatric, General, Mental Health or Learning Disabilities Nurse, with experience of working on a ward, we’d love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job.

We’re passionate about young people’s mental health outcomes, and strive to deliver first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care. Here at Lavender Walk you will be supporting young people to build a resilience, better coping strategies and healthy relationships.

Who are we?

The team consists of two consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists, junior doctors, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, family therapists, support workers, a ward manager and matron. We also have a fantastic on-site school with an outstanding team of teachers and visiting tutors for music, art therapy and drama therapy.

What do we do?

We work closely with young people and their families to understand their problems, provide a comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, formulation and treatment plan to allow for them to return to their homes safely as quickly as possible. We treat a wide variety of psychiatric illnesses such as psychosis, mania, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and post traumatic stress disorder. We don’t currently treat young people with primary eating disorders or those requiring naso-gastric tubes.

Working for our organisation

CNWL have a pioneering history improving health outcomes in people’s lives, by providing physical and mental health services at GPs, clinics, hospitals, and in the community.

We understand that staff are the heartbeat of our organisation, and offer substantial range of benefits locally, in addition to the standard NHS discounts. We take flexible working seriously, and will always be open to discussion to meet our workforces competing work life demands.

Our base is in the Chelsea area

next to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Thanks to the heavy NHS influence many local cafes, restaurants and bars give discounts at 10-20% to all NHS staff. As well as Better Gym offering a 50% discount to all staff.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Typical tasks for this role?

• To support the ward manager in leading day-to-day running of the ward.
• To lead on champion roles and drive continuous improvement within the nursing team.
• To lead on nursing feedback in ward round and other professional meetings.
• To take on the Primary Nurse role for individual young people.
• To assist in the development of junior staff and act as a role model to them.
• To ensure the provision of excellent, evidence-based nursing care for the children, young people (CYP) and their families at all times.
• To put children, young people, their families and carers at the centre of everything we do.
• To ensure the provision of a welcoming, caring, clean and safe environment for the CYP and their families.
• Recognising escalation in behaviour or shift in ward dynamics and proactively address this with staff or young people.
• Monitoring observations and ensuring safe practice and act appropriately and in line with unit procedure.
• Supervising junior staff and students to ensure the delivery of safe and effective care.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications:

Essential criteria

• Registered Mental Health Nurse at degree or diploma level.
• NMC Registered Nurse (Child) (or Registered Nurse) relevant to area of practice CAMHS Mental Health

Desirable criteria

• Degree level qualification
• NVQ D32/33 Assessors course

Experience/Skills

Essential criteria

• Teaching, supervision and managerial experience of coordinating and managing patient care
• Knowledge of mental disorder, child development, mental health law and legislation and the nursing process
• Understanding of professional and current issues in children’s and mental health nursing.
• Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
• Handling safeguarding issues according to Trust policies and procedures
• Understating or evidence of fulfilling PREP requirements for Revalidation Awareness of equality and diversity

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a mental health setting post registration
• Basic counselling skills

Special Aptitudes/Abilities:

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates an understanding of and empathy to the needs of children & young people
• Ability to effectively communicate with children, young people and their parents
• Ability to effectively communicate with other professionals
• Basic understanding of budget and resource management

Desirable criteria

• Ability to understand and work with challenging behaviour

Personal Characteristics:

Essential criteria

• A genuine interest in working within this specialism.
• Demonstrates professionalism (in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct) and good interpersonal relationships at all times.