Associate Chief Nurse-Mental Health and Learning Disabilities

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide expert strategic and senior professional advice to the Chief Nurse and Director of Mental Health & Social Care on matters relating to nursing practice / standards and the nursing workforce, to ensure best practice is embedded in provision.

2. Undertake some direct clinical work as agreed with the Chief Nurse in order to maintain own professional registration.

3. To provide advice to Ministers, Executive Directors, other senior managers and senior clinicians on all professional issues relating to mental health and learning disability nursing.

4. Responsible, through delegated authority, for ensuring that appropriate governance controls are in place to ensure safe and effective professional practice.

5. To provide the professional and strategic expert input for nursing into the development and implementation of a strategy for nursing services which responds to changing needs and demands of the services.

6. Provide nursing expertise and advice in relation to service developments / transformation, including leading the development of new nursing roles / advanced practice roles in order to meet identified needs

7. Develop and maintain a high quality nursing workforce that supports the continued improvement of integrated services and is aligned to overarching strategic objectives to ensure cohesive service provision.

8. Work collaboratively with service users and carers to ensure that the best possible experience is delivered in the most appropriate environment through effective service delivery and high quality person-centered clinical practice.

9. Support the development and implementation of outcome, quality and patient experience measures relating to nursing care / practice and actively contribute to wider service evaluation

10. Play a lead role in setting the annual budget for nursing services in relation to staffing, care delivery, training and monitoring mechanisms, and promote / support effective budgetary management amongst budget holders to ensure that service provision is financially sustainable.

11. Ensure appropriate governance arrangements are in place in relation to professional standards, deployment of the workforce, continuous professional development, supervision, revalidation, and ensuring appropriate levels of staff are consistently available to provide a high quality service.

12. Ensure systems are in place and embedded to provide assurance in relation to safety and quality relating to safeguarding, clinical risk management, Jersey Nursing Assessment and Accreditation System (JNAAS) to ensure safe delivery of care.

13. Maintain strong positive working relationships through working in partnership with Trade Unions colleagues to ensure that staff are supported in practice, through change to deliver high quality care

14. Provide professional supervision and line management to designated nursing posts, including Consultant Nurse and Practice Development Nurse roles

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Highly developed specialist knowledge of mental health and / or learning disability nursing underpinned by theory and
• experience
• Expert level knowledge of the critical factors in delivering improvements in clinical performance / standards of
• care relevant to nursing
• Knowledge and experience of
• improving patient safety and patient
• experience
• Expert level knowledge of the Governance and Risk frameworks
• required to underpin the delivery of safe patient care within a Nursing
• setting.
• Advanced Knowledge of MS Office Suite

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with the NMC as a first level registered nurse (Mental Health or Learning Disability)
• Degree (or level 6 qualification) in Nursing or Midwifery or equivalent.
• Masters level qualification in nursing, or equivalent

Desirable

• Project management experience
• Management qualification or equivalent experience.

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Health and Community Services

Address

Government Of Jersey

Union Street

St. Helier

Jersey

JE2 3DN

Employer's website

https://www.gov.je (Opens in a new tab)