Nurse Consultant

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is looking for a Nurse Consultant for Safer Care to provide expert clinical advice and leadership. This role involves leading safer care strategies, supporting research, and managing the Reducing Restrictive Practice Lead. The consultant will collaborate with staff to enhance patient safety and service quality. Candidates should be registered nurses with substantial mental health experience and excellent leadership skills. The role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to thrive in a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional post registration experience in mental health/learning disability inpatient settings.
• Demonstrable experience in service change management.
• Experience of teaching in a clinical and non-clinical setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert clinical advice for staff and patients at risk of harm.
• Develop positive multi-agency and inter-professional relationships.
• Advise and liaise on specialist nursing issues across the Trust.

Skills

Able to deal with difficult situations

Understands the National and Trust vision

Education

Registered Nurse - RMN/RNLD

Evidence of continued Professional Development

Quality Improvement training or equivalent

Job description

The Nurse Consultant for Safer Care will provide expert clinical advice and leadership, education and professional development and will support research and quality improvement.

The role will be key in leading the development and implementation of safer care strategies and contribute to the development of a quality improvement approach to improve safety and experience for service users and staff Trust wide.

The role will support the Safer Care Teams and clinical Localities as a clinical expert providing guidance and advice to reduce patient safety incidents and harm to our staff. The post will be required to be clinically based 25-50% of the time.

The post holder will promote the teaching of evidence-based care of patients presenting with complex behaviour and ensure that consistent standards are maintainedacross the across the Trust.

The post holder will manage the Reducing Restrictive Practice Lead and the Preventing and Managing violence team.

Main duties of the job

1. Provide expert clinical advice for staff and patients who are at increased risk of experiencing harm due to patient safety concerns.
2. To develop and maintain positive multi-agency and inter-professional relationships and networks both, trust and national networks which influence and develop current systems of care delivery.
3. Provide expert nurse leadership, advice and clinical consultancy to nurses and multi-professional teams in relation to management of patients who present with patient safety concerns or complexities, to include attendance at meetings and support in development of co-produced care planning.
4. Advise and liaise with the Deputy Director and Director of Safer Care, with regard to any specialist nursing issues and training requirements across the Trust to support safer care.
5. Enhance the quality of the service user experience by ensuring a high level of training and advice to develop nursing staff and multi-professional staffs knowledge and skills.
6. Provide expert nursing advice to the safer care meetings.
7. Develop and implement strategies and other patient safety initiatives to include evidence-based frameworks and interventions to reduce patient harm.
8. To provide day to day management and expert guidance and support to the Reducing Restrictive Practice Lead and the PMA team.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job responsibilities

To ensure PMA training meets national and best practice guidance and standards.

Support the governance processes for Safer Care, providing clinical expertise to patient safety and safeguarding reviews.

Work with the police and other agencies to strengthen the Trust approach to reducing violence and aggression.

Review and develop a standardised Trust wide approach to responding to emergency responses to patient safety incidents.

Initiate and lead changes in practice to support the delivery of high standards of care.

To actively support teams and areas across the Trust where patient safety incidents have occurred and to help provide and organise debriefing.

Please read the job description / person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse - RMN/RNLD
• Evidence of continued Professional Development Clinical & Managerial leadership
• Quality Improvement training or equivalent experience
• Membership of Special Interest Groups

Experience

• Extensive professional post registration experience in mental health/learning disability inpatient settings
• Demonstrable experience in service change management
• Experience of teaching in a clinical and non-clinical setting
• Experience of coproduction with service users to develop and deliver training

Skills

• Able to deal with difficult situations
• Understands the broad National and Trust vision to support strategic developments

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£64,455 to £74,896 a yeargross per annum (pro rata).