Lead Nurse - CAMHS

Job responsibilities

1. Provide expert strategic and operational advice to the Head of Care Group on matters relating to the nursing/midwifery workforce to ensure best practice is embedded in provision.

2. Responsibility for the delivery of the nursing and midwifery strategy across the care group ensuring that all key objectives are incorporated into service plans and objectives for all staff.

3. Provide advice to stakeholders on all professional issues relating to nursing/midwifery within the care group to ensure that appropriate governance controls are in place in relation to professional regulation, supervision, and revalidation, ensuring a workforce that is fit to practice.

4. Lead the HCS agenda for nursing/midwifery across the care group ensuring the development of practice in line with care closer to home and local integration of services across Jerseys health system.

5. Develop the performance of direct reports to maintain a high quality workforce that underpins the strategic direction of the organisation and ensures effective delivery of high quality care.

6. Analyse standards of patient care through the implementation of continuous quality improvement initiatives, regular service evaluation and developments that involve patients/users of the service.

7. Provide clinical advice and expertise to ensure that best practice is promoted and delivered in order to reduce the risk to patients and that the safety of the patient journey is maximised

8. Communicate national and local policies and initiatives that impact on patient and nursing care to ensure practice remains contemporary and within guidelines.

9. Embed assurance processes in relation to safety and quality to ensure high standards of care delivery are in place.

10. Ensure effective budgetary management amongst the delegated budget holders to ensure that service provision is financially sustainable.

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with the NMC as a first level registered nurse/registered
• midwife.
• Degree (or level 6 qualification) in Nursing or Midwifery or equivalent.
• Masters level qualification in Nursing or Midwifery
• Management qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

• N/A

Experience

Essential

• Significant post qualification working experience in order to have developed consolidated practice to lead the staff teams.
• Experience of working in an autonomous nursing/midwifery role.
• Experienced in all aspects of Safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
• Experience of working at a Senior Nurse or Midwife level and relevant
• clinical and management experience.
• Experience of developing business cases/business planning.
• Experience of implementing, managing and achieving changes in
• clinical practice.
• Demonstrable experience of developing staff and teams.
• Demonstrable experience of managing change effectively.
• Significant management, human resource and operational
• experience.
• Experience of designing and delivering training to colleagues at all
• levels.

Desirable

• N/A

Knowledge

Essential

• Highly developed specialist knowledge of nursing procedures underpinned by theory and experience.
• Advanced clinical knowledge and skills.
• Knowledge and experience of improving patient safety in health
• care provision.
• Expert practitioner in area of nursing / midwifery.
• Candidates must display expert level knowledge of the Governance
• and Risk frameworks required to underpin the delivery of safe patient
• care.

Desirable

• N/A

General Skills/Attributes

Essential

• Ability to present effectively both verbally and in writing.
• High level interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Ability to plan and organise complex programmes that may require
• urgent responses.
• A strong team player who can professionally lead and role model.

Desirable

• N/A

Technical / Work-based Skills

Essential

• Thorough and up to date knowledge of nursing / midwifery theory and
• best practice, and the application of this practice.
• Understanding of NMC Code of Practice and requirements of it for
• the practice and behaviour of staff and self, and the midwives rules.
• Keyboard skills, skills required for professional practice.

Desirable

• N/A

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).