Job summary
CAMHS & All Age Eating Disorders are looking for a Practice Development Nurse
Aquarius Ward is a specialist CAMHS inpatient mental health provision for young people aged 12 - 18 who are experiencing an acute mental health crisis. It is 12 bedded National Unit open 365 days a year, 24h a day. It is part of the South London Partnership providing the adolescent in-patient services for young people under St George's Southwest London Mental Health Trust, South London and Maudsley and Oxleas NHS Trust.
The team provides inpatient treatment for adolescents aged 12 to their 18th birthday in an acute mental health crisis that is unable to be managed in the community with conditions such as severe depression, anxiety OCD, self-harm, psychosis, and mania. You will be joining a multi-disciplinary team that is committed to the provision of highly quality service user centred care.
Main duties of the job
As Practice Development Nurse you will lead on the development of nurses and focus on supporting the ward to ensure the 11 Fundamental Standards of Care are embedded in practice and monitor improvements through clinical effectiveness: audit and quality monitoring systems.
You will take a lead on quality improvement and development quality improvement projects and deliver quality improvement outcomes as required. Aquarius Ward have a robust structure which empowers and supports nurses to lead in the safe delivery of high-quality care though teaching sessions, risk reflection and reflective practice and a strong involvement network of young people.
As an expert practitioner you will provide continuing teaching and coaching to all grades of nursing staff in their delivery of nursing care. In collaboration with the multi-disciplinary teams, you will work together to make decisions regarding the treatment of individual patients to improve service, systems, structures, staff supervision, support the leadership of the ward to achieve outstanding status.
You will be working as a Senior Nurse alongside the Ward Manager and Matron as part of the MDT inpatient team. This role includes shift pattern working across seven days as you will be providing senior nursing support to the team on shift. There will be both time 'in numbers' on the shift and supernumerary.
About us
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety ofbenefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Professional
- To ensure Trust standard of recording and information governance are maintained.
- To provide consultation and training in relation to nursing standards and nursing practice to a range of colleagues and professional groups as appropriate.
- To work closely with the Nurse Development team to build on knowledge of nursing offers of training and support for students.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
- To receive regular supervision from the Ward Manager
- To undertake mandatory and statutory training, supervision and annual appraisal as required by Trust policy.
- To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review/appraisal.
- To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).
Key Task and Responsibilities
- Support staff and Nursing Teams in continuing clinical and professional development in the workplace
- Be responsible for the continuing development of competency-based frameworks for Nurses within the borough.
- Provide continuing training and developmental support to all grades of nursing in their delivery of nursing care in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary teams.
- Provide staff/teams with information and/or training about how to develop/implement and evaluate standards and programmes of care and provide advice and support where required.
- Be involved in the developing of Policies, Procedures and Standard Operating procedures that will affect the Nurses.
- Ensure that agreed policies are followed to provide a safe environment for patients, relatives and staff.
- Ensure the effective communication between nursing colleagues, multi-professional teams, patients, relatives/carers and provide advice and support where there are difficulties in relationships when appropriate.
- Lead, facilitate and participate in research projects and clinical audit and implement any changes.
- Deliver educational programmes in relation to clinical, practice and professional development using up to date methods of delivery, including e learning packages.
- In conjunction with Learning and Development department assist in the development of e-learning packages in line with borough clinical priorities
Leadership responsibilities
The post holder will:
- Act as an identified practice development nurse for nursing services in the borough
- Provide expert clinical leadership on complex issues.
- Exhibit an understanding of workload implications in relation to resource constraints and alert the Head of Nursing to any concerns and possible solutions.
- Consult and advise teams with problem solving in relation to clinical care and prioritising work.
- Maintain contact with nursing staff in their areas to assist in ensuring that agreed objectives are met and outcomes achieved.
- Offer expertise to multi- professional groups in relation to a policy implementation and review.
- Contribute to policy development.
- Report and investigate complaints, accidents and adverse incidents as required by the Trust in accordance with the Trust policies.
- Analyse trends in complaints and incidents and develop action plans to implement to support and improve practice.
- In conjunction with the Head of Nursing participate, implement and evaluate any projects in relation to nursing as required.
- Develop protocols specific to nursing practice in conjunction with the service requirements.
- In conjunction with teams participate in the induction of new staff
- With the Support of the Head of Nursing and other Senior Nurses to support the nursing strategy for workforce development
Development
- The post holder is professionally accountable to the Head of Nursing and thus will work closely with the Head of Nursing to develop practice within nursing.
- Be available to mentor nursing staff to improve identified areas of practice.
- The post holder will develop and maintain relationships with other Senior Nurses within service line and the Trust to identify and share good practice.
- Support and advise staff in their personal and professional development.
- Facilitate learning environments conducive to the acquisition of further knowledge and skills.
- Ensure that effective communication exists between themselves and staff in all multi-disciplinary teams by attending team meetings and visiting teams regularly to be a positive visible face of Nursing.
- The post holder will be aware of the NMC code of conduct and will guide staff in its use.
- Provide supervision to individuals or groups of nurses.
- Participate in the PADR process for staff that you directly supervise or co-supervise and in conjunction with ward managers.
Clinical
The postholder will:
- Act as an advocate for patients/carers who require support.
- Ensure that agreed standards are known and followed to provide a safe environment for staff, patients and their carers.
- Act as a resource to enable staff to develop care packages in line with current best practice.
- Encourage staff to integrate best practice into everyday practice.
- Develop and implement teaching packages for staff in line with the service line priorities.
- Effective use of data (dashboards) to provide information to teams.
- Effective use of statistical data in line with the Trust requirements and of the role including analyses and recommendations of findings
- Act as a role model for staff in respect of patient care and management
- Ensure that robust supervision structures are in place and are adhered too.
- Ensure other disciplines are involved and kept informed of developments in practice and where necessary consult and involve.
Research
The post holder will:
- Participate in the quality forums.
- Present findings of research and audit, internally and externally
- Recommend changes or developments based on findings.
- Identify any future audit and research projects.
- Enable and encourage other staff to participate in audit and research.
- Promote nurses to write for publication.
- Produce reports and papers for publication where agreed.
Communication
The postholder will:
- Ensure that managers are informed of Nursing needs and developments in the teams.
- Identify and action any concerns re practice and take remedial action where necessary.
- Actively participate in key nursing meetings such as the Nursing Conferences in CAMHS and Nurses training and development days
- Communicate key points, progress and implementation of any projects to the borough in the Quality meetings.
- Inform and alert line managers to any immediate nursing issues.
- Maintain and promote excellent record keeping.
- Participate in any investigations as requested and report outcomes to line manager.
- Meet on a regular basis with senior nursing and junior staff in the borough to pick up any issues that might affect the nurses or the teams.
- Meet with other professionals within the service to develop and maintain the high profile of nursing.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Professional
- To ensure Trust standard of recording and information governance are maintained.
- To provide consultation and training in relation to nursing standards and nursing practice to a range of colleagues and professional groups as appropriate.
- To work closely with the Nurse Development team to build on knowledge of nursing offers of training and support for students.
Teaching, Training and Supervision
- To receive regular supervision from the Ward Manager
- To undertake mandatory and statutory training, supervision and annual appraisal as required by Trust policy.
- To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review/appraisal.
- To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).
Key Task and Responsibilities
- Support staff and Nursing Teams in continuing clinical and professional development in the workplace
- Be responsible for the continuing development of competency-based frameworks for Nurses within the borough.
- Provide continuing training and developmental support to all grades of nursing in their delivery of nursing care in collaboration with the multi- disciplinary teams.
- Provide staff/teams with information and/or training about how to develop/implement and evaluate standards and programmes of care and provide advice and support where required.
- Be involved in the developing of Policies, Procedures and Standard Operating procedures that will affect the Nurses.
- Ensure that agreed policies are followed to provide a safe environment for patients, relatives and staff.
- Ensure the effective communication between nursing colleagues, multi-professional teams, patients, relatives/carers and provide advice and support where there are difficulties in relationships when appropriate.
- Lead, facilitate and participate in research projects and clinical audit and implement any changes.
- Deliver educational programmes in relation to clinical, practice and professional development using up to date methods of delivery, including e learning packages.
- In conjunction with Learning and Development department assist in the development of e-learning packages in line with borough clinical priorities
Leadership responsibilities
The post holder will:
- Act as an identified practice development nurse for nursing services in the borough
- Provide expert clinical leadership on complex issues.
- Exhibit an understanding of workload implications in relation to resource constraints and alert the Head of Nursing to any concerns and possible solutions.
- Consult and advise teams with problem solving in relation to clinical care and prioritising work.
- Maintain contact with nursing staff in their areas to assist in ensuring that agreed objectives are met and outcomes achieved.
- Offer expertise to multi- professional groups in relation to a policy implementation and review.
- Contribute to policy development.
- Report and investigate complaints, accidents and adverse incidents as required by the Trust in accordance with the Trust policies.
- Analyse trends in complaints and incidents and develop action plans to implement to support and improve practice.
- In conjunction with the Head of Nursing participate, implement and evaluate any projects in relation to nursing as required.
- Develop protocols specific to nursing practice in conjunction with the service requirements.
- In conjunction with teams participate in the induction of new staff
- With the Support of the Head of Nursing and other Senior Nurses to support the nursing strategy for workforce development
Development
- The post holder is professionally accountable to the Head of Nursing and thus will work closely with the Head of Nursing to develop practice within nursing.
- Be available to mentor nursing staff to improve identified areas of practice.
- The post holder will develop and maintain relationships with other Senior Nurses within service line and the Trust to identify and share good practice.
- Support and advise staff in their personal and professional development.
- Facilitate learning environments conducive to the acquisition of further knowledge and skills.
- Ensure that effective communication exists between themselves and staff in all multi-disciplinary teams by attending team meetings and visiting teams regularly to be a positive visible face of Nursing.
- The post holder will be aware of the NMC code of conduct and will guide staff in its use.
- Provide supervision to individuals or groups of nurses.
- Participate in the PADR process for staff that you directly supervise or co-supervise and in conjunction with ward managers.
Clinical
The postholder will:
- Act as an advocate for patients/carers who require support.
- Ensure that agreed standards are known and followed to provide a safe environment for staff, patients and their carers.
- Act as a resource to enable staff to develop care packages in line with current best practice.
- Encourage staff to integrate best practice into everyday practice.
- Develop and implement teaching packages for staff in line with the service line priorities.
- Effective use of data (dashboards) to provide information to teams.
- Effective use of statistical data in line with the Trust requirements and of the role including analyses and recommendations of findings
- Act as a role model for staff in respect of patient care and management
- Ensure that robust supervision structures are in place and are adhered too.
- Ensure other disciplines are involved and kept informed of developments in practice and where necessary consult and involve.
Research
The post holder will:
- Participate in the quality forums.
- Present findings of research and audit, internally and externally
- Recommend changes or developments based on findings.
- Identify any future audit and research projects.
- Enable and encourage other staff to participate in audit and research.
- Promote nurses to write for publication.
- Produce reports and papers for publication where agreed.
Communication
The postholder will:
- Ensure that managers are informed of Nursing needs and developments in the teams.
- Identify and action any concerns re practice and take remedial action where necessary.
- Actively participate in key nursing meetings such as the Nursing Conferences in CAMHS and Nurses training and development days
- Communicate key points, progress and implementation of any projects to the borough in the Quality meetings.
- Inform and alert line managers to any immediate nursing issues.
- Maintain and promote excellent record keeping.
- Participate in any investigations as requested and report outcomes to line manager.
- Meet on a regular basis with senior nursing and junior staff in the borough to pick up any issues that might affect the nurses or the teams.
- Meet with other professionals within the service to develop and maintain the high profile of nursing.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- oProfessional registration with NMC
- oEvidence of relevant professional development
Desirable
- oFurther post registration training in child and adolescent mental health
- oSupervision training
Experience
Essential
- oPost-qualification experience in CAMHS
- oexperience of working with adolescents with mental health difficulties
- oClinical risk assessment and management of vulnerable client groups
- oLeadership experience
- oManaging a change process
- oWorking in a multi-disciplinary team
- oProviding and receiving supervision
- oManaging relationships with sensitivity and diplomacy
Desirable
- oExperience of Racial Awareness/Diversity Training
- oWorking collaboratively with service users and/or carers to develop services.
- oCoaching skills, qualification.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- oProfessional registration with NMC
- oEvidence of relevant professional development
Desirable
- oFurther post registration training in child and adolescent mental health
- oSupervision training
Experience
Essential
- oPost-qualification experience in CAMHS
- oexperience of working with adolescents with mental health difficulties
- oClinical risk assessment and management of vulnerable client groups
- oLeadership experience
- oManaging a change process
- oWorking in a multi-disciplinary team
- oProviding and receiving supervision
- oManaging relationships with sensitivity and diplomacy
Desirable
- oExperience of Racial Awareness/Diversity Training
- oWorking collaboratively with service users and/or carers to develop services.
- oCoaching skills, qualification.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
