Enhanced Support Team Lead

Job responsibilities

Clinical

1. To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work and to ensure that work is within professional standards and clinical guidelines.

2. Work flexibly, managing own working time effectively according to service demands.

3. In collaboration with System Operations and the Safer Staffing Escalation Group deploy team appropriately across the Trust

4. To provide clinical leadership to direct reports and wider Trust inpatient settings

5. To provide clinical leadership in creating care plans and making recommendations on nursing interventions to support patients with enhanced needs.

6. Deploy team having assessed and prioritised patients and teams with the highest clinical need.

7. To ensure that patients, families, and carers are involved in the planning of care plans.

8. Support the review of mental health and 1-2-1 care plans.

9. Link with Dementia Lead

10. To work collaboratively with other services that may be involved in the care of the patients including Social Services, NSFT and the Voluntary sector.

11. To contribute to relevant multidisciplinary meetings and patient reviews as appropriate.

12. To provide supervision, advice and support to other members of nursing staff and assistants within the team regarding management and care of people with complex nursing needs, ensuring practice is commensurate with NMC professional standards.

13. To ensure effective communication with ward leadership and clinical teams of care needs and interventions for patients with enhanced needs. This includes ensuring effective care planning, risk assessment and escalation processes in deterioration or increased risk.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse or Registered Mental Health Nurse
• First level degree, diploma or equivalent
• Current registration to professional body
• Must hold a UK Driving License and have access to a car for the use of work
• Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983
• Recognised management qualification or evidence of working at that level

Desirable

• Masters level degree

Experience

Essential

• Experience in Leading a Team
• Able to Use Initiative
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience of working in a multi-agency environment
• A track record of successful service and policy development and implementation
• Evidence of post graduate development
• Performance management evidence

Desirable

• Evidence of managing a multidisciplinary team
• Project management
• Experience in mental health conditions
• Mentorship

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

Essential

• Able to use initiative
• Able to work independently
• Change management
• Knowledge of additional specialist areas through inhouse training and short courses
• Able to provide high standards of care
• Ability to manage stressful situations
• Concentrate when undertaking patient care
• Ability to display calm, mature responses to difficult situations
• Able to concentrate in busy, pressured environment and prioritise time accordingly
• Work flexibly to accommodate patient / service needs
• Working knowledge of current issues within clinical practice and service development
• Be aware of own limitations and able to gain support where necessary
• Good observational and reporting skills
• Analytical skills with the ability to problem solve complex situations

Communication

Essential

• Expert communication skills, able to address communication barriers
• Evidence motivational skills
• Empathy and sensitivity
• Evidence tact and diplomacy
• Good interpersonal skills

Personal and People Development

Essential

• Creative thinking with the ability to problem solve
• Strong interpersonal skills building positive working relationships
• Adaptability, positively working with change and enabling colleagues to deliver the changes
• Self-awareness, the ability to reflect on your strengths, styles and behaviours and the impact on yourself and others
• Compassionate leadership
• Coaching/Mentoring skills
• Lead by example

Other

Essential

• Ability to travel to other locations to support teams and attend meetings
• Able to use own initiative
• Able to work independently and as part of a team
• Be highly motived
• Emotional Intelligence

Desirable

• Previous experience of SystmOne
• Experience in caring for patients with long term and/or transient mental health conditions

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).