Job summary
Are you a resilient leader ready to drive quality and innovation, with a focus on reducing restrictive practices?
Join our forward-thinking team and lead the charge in implementing transformative solutions. We seek candidates with demonstrable knowledge of the Equality and Human Rights Act and have experience in the delivery of clinical developments.
Candidates must have extensive experience of working in Secure Services, with a deep understanding of the complexities and challenges of providing high-quality care in these settings. A proven track record of delivering excellence in nursing practice and clinical innovation.
Main duties of the job
The Nurse Consultant for Reducing Restrictive Practices has a Trust-wide responsibility to ensure robust Nursing leadership in relation to the Restraint Reduction Programme - No ForceFirst; as an autonomous practitioner, working to the Associate Director of Nursing and Patient Experience and the Clinical Director for the Centre for Perfect Care to deliver a range of objectives relating specifically to Offender Health but also in relation to nursing standards and practice.
The post holder will be responsible for advancing the Trust objectives of reducing restrictive practices and will work in partnership with service users, carers and staff to ensure the delivery of outstanding care, upholding our patients' human rights and furthering our co-production agenda. The post holder will also be needed to offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, staff and other professionals.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Principal Responsibilities:
1. To work as Lead nurse across the Trust.
2. To formulate, implement and evaluate interventions which support the clinical
pathway for patients and service users in the Trust.
3. To ensure Trust wide PSS training and education programme meets Trust and national standards and is effectively delivered by the PSS training Team.
4. To enhance service user experience by monitoring and developing service user feedback and engagement at ward level and across the Trust.
5. Lead on the development and evaluate policies \ protocols for advancing nursing practice in the Trust.
For further information please view the Job Description at the bottom of the page.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Principal Responsibilities:
1. To work as Lead nurse across the Trust.
2. To formulate, implement and evaluate interventions which support the clinical
pathway for patients and service users in the Trust.
3. To ensure Trust wide PSS training and education programme meets Trust and national standards and is effectively delivered by the PSS training Team.
4. To enhance service user experience by monitoring and developing service user feedback and engagement at ward level and across the Trust.
5. Lead on the development and evaluate policies \ protocols for advancing nursing practice in the Trust.
For further information please view the Job Description at the bottom of the page.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Registration e.g. Registered Nurse Mental Health / Learning Disability
- Educated to Masters Degree level or equivalent
- Minimum of 3 years experience in clinical practice at a senior level
- Extensive portfolio of post registered professional development
Desirable
- Willingness to enrol for doctorate level study
- Recognised teaching qualification
Knowledge / Experience
Essential
- A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights.
- Expert Clinical Knowledge at advanced practice level in the area of reducing restrictive practice.
- Considered an expert and an autonomous practitioner in their field.
- Project management of quality and service improvement initiatives.
- Expert clinical knowledge in the area of care delivery for service users with complex psychiatric, physical and social co-morbidity, severely behaviours of concern
- Extensive abilities in delivering innovation and quality in clinical practice in a range of specialties, demonstrating leadership skills, change management expertise and the delivery of clinical developments that have tangible results for patients
- in-depth knowledge of research, audit and quality improvement methodologies and their application
- Experience of National Consultancy on complex cases and service improvement.
- in-depth applied knowledge of the Mental Health Act (MHA) code of practice including statutory documentation and legal requirements of written RC reports under the MHA.
- in-depth understanding and application of clinical governance and its application in practice
- experience of promoting clinical effectiveness & standards setting via audit & governance frameworks
- Experience of providing training and teaching expertise in applied settings
- Developing and delivering training programmes and clinical supervision
- Providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified, non qualified members of the profession
- Will be service user focused with a track record that includes examples of clinical practice that have required collaborative interdisciplinary work to improve adult services.
- Ability to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and critical judgement.
- in-depth knowledge of clinical care with significant evidence of post registration development activity
- Substantial evidence based practice relevant to their role.
- Must be able to demonstrate a commitment to service user involvement.
- Be able to work autonomously in a self-motivating style
- ability to reflect on experience & generate a learning culture.
- Ability to undertake research and record of scholarship
- Computer literate with a working knowledge of standard formats including spreadsheets and data management
Skills
Essential
- possess excellent leadership and communication skills
- Ability to disseminate in a professional manner to a range of professionals at regional, national and international level as evidenced by the development and delivery of training, presentations at conference and/or publications in peer reviewed journals.
- Highly effective interpersonal skills and will be a recognisable role model for staff and patients.
- Articulate and effective communicator
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Registration e.g. Registered Nurse Mental Health / Learning Disability
- Educated to Masters Degree level or equivalent
- Minimum of 3 years experience in clinical practice at a senior level
- Extensive portfolio of post registered professional development
Desirable
- Willingness to enrol for doctorate level study
- Recognised teaching qualification
Knowledge / Experience
Essential
- A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights.
- Expert Clinical Knowledge at advanced practice level in the area of reducing restrictive practice.
- Considered an expert and an autonomous practitioner in their field.
- Project management of quality and service improvement initiatives.
- Expert clinical knowledge in the area of care delivery for service users with complex psychiatric, physical and social co-morbidity, severely behaviours of concern
- Extensive abilities in delivering innovation and quality in clinical practice in a range of specialties, demonstrating leadership skills, change management expertise and the delivery of clinical developments that have tangible results for patients
- in-depth knowledge of research, audit and quality improvement methodologies and their application
- Experience of National Consultancy on complex cases and service improvement.
- in-depth applied knowledge of the Mental Health Act (MHA) code of practice including statutory documentation and legal requirements of written RC reports under the MHA.
- in-depth understanding and application of clinical governance and its application in practice
- experience of promoting clinical effectiveness & standards setting via audit & governance frameworks
- Experience of providing training and teaching expertise in applied settings
- Developing and delivering training programmes and clinical supervision
- Providing clinical and professional leadership to other qualified, non qualified members of the profession
- Will be service user focused with a track record that includes examples of clinical practice that have required collaborative interdisciplinary work to improve adult services.
- Ability to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and critical judgement.
- in-depth knowledge of clinical care with significant evidence of post registration development activity
- Substantial evidence based practice relevant to their role.
- Must be able to demonstrate a commitment to service user involvement.
- Be able to work autonomously in a self-motivating style
- ability to reflect on experience & generate a learning culture.
- Ability to undertake research and record of scholarship
- Computer literate with a working knowledge of standard formats including spreadsheets and data management
Skills
Essential
- possess excellent leadership and communication skills
- Ability to disseminate in a professional manner to a range of professionals at regional, national and international level as evidenced by the development and delivery of training, presentations at conference and/or publications in peer reviewed journals.
- Highly effective interpersonal skills and will be a recognisable role model for staff and patients.
- Articulate and effective communicator
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
