Job summary
Options For Care have an exciting opportunity for you
to join the senior management team as Head of Nursing and Quality across their
mental health services based in Birmingham.
We are looking for a passionate, hands-on individual to develop
and embed excellence in care across our 3 hospitals and 1 recovery home.
Stanford Court, our High Dependency Unit is due later this
year and will further complement our existing pathway supporting our service
users through their recovery journey.
Main duties of the job
The Head of
Nursing and Quality will support the management team across the organisation
ensuring all aspects of direct care are delivered at the highest quality using
on-the-job coaching, mentoring and supervision. You will lead on key clinical
statutory responsibilities working across all sites and ensure care delivered
meets individuals mental and physical health needs.
The Head
of Nursing and Quality will act into the role of registered manager if there is
a service need, ensuring continuity of care provision.
About us
Options For Care currently provide the following services;
Dartmouth House is a 16-bed male long-term
complex care mental health inpatient unit based in Handsworth Wood, Birmingham.
Montague Court is an 18-bed male long-term
complex care mental health inpatient unit based in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Orchard House is an 8-bed residential step-down
service based in Erdington, Birmingham, which allows extension of the long-term
complex care pathway.
Stanford Court will be a 23-bed male mental
health inpatient unit based in Highgate, Birmingham. This will consist of 19 high
dependency beds and four self-contained recovery flats to enable assessment of
daily living skills in preparation for discharge.
MISSION, VISION AND VALUESMission
Realising potential
Vision
We offer best-practice interventions to enable personal recovery and well-being.
Values
The individual is at the heart of everything we do.
We inspire, stimulate and empower people
to achieve and grow through compassionate, supportive and protective relationships.
We deliver and
continuously evaluate high-quality service whilst respecting differences,
promoting dignity and supporting the privacy of others.
Job description
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Principle Responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
Provide clinical leadership and support.
Ensure that excellence of care delivery is maintained and evaluated in line with local and national best practice standards and guidance, this is transferred across to individualised interventions enabling recovery and engagement with the service user group.
Work closely and collaboratively with service users, their carers, and the multi-disciplinary team to assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and review care.
To promote therapeutic relationships, respecting the uniqueness of each patient, acting in a non-judgmental manner, and promoting the rights of the individual at all times.
Provide quality assurance and oversight of all aspects of clinical governance to share with the senior management team and provide quality assurance to Options for Care Stakeholders.
To apply you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and have your NMC pin.
Job description
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Principle Responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for the following:
Provide clinical leadership and support.
Ensure that excellence of care delivery is maintained and evaluated in line with local and national best practice standards and guidance, this is transferred across to individualised interventions enabling recovery and engagement with the service user group.
Work closely and collaboratively with service users, their carers, and the multi-disciplinary team to assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and review care.
To promote therapeutic relationships, respecting the uniqueness of each patient, acting in a non-judgmental manner, and promoting the rights of the individual at all times.
Provide quality assurance and oversight of all aspects of clinical governance to share with the senior management team and provide quality assurance to Options for Care Stakeholders.
To apply you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and have your NMC pin.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- To apply you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and have your NMC pin.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- To apply you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and have your NMC pin.
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).
