Lead Nurse

2 months ago

Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and innovative nursing professional to take on a lead role in the development and delivery of clinical care within our Inpatient Team at Fountain Way Hospital, Salisbury.

Key Responsibilities
  • Clinical Practice Management
    • Carry out clinical practice within the designated clinical areas, ensuring high-quality evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, interventions, and evaluations for patients.
    • Undertake comprehensive, patient-focused, nursing assessments and prepare care plans in consultation with the service user to provide the best nursing care.
    • Carry out clinical audit to evaluate and improve clinical services in partnership with service users.
    • Administer medicine within relevant Trust and legislative guidance.
    • Implement and encourage others to implement research-based practice.
    • Supervise junior and unqualified staff.
    • Implementation of care and rehabilitation programme.
    • Evaluation of effectiveness of care provided in partnership with users.
    • Ability to undertake risk assessment and develop risk management strategies for individual service users.
  • Teaching, Education & Health Promotion
    • Use own specialist skills, knowledge, and resources to provide mentoring opportunities for staff within designated areas and promote positive attitudes towards mental health.
    • Regular provision of advice and mentoring to staff.
    • Function as a preceptor and mentor to new staff enabling their full integration into the service.
    • Develop junior staff through teaching or training activities.
  • Continuing Professional Development
    • Maintain and develop professional knowledge, skills, and expertise to ensure that practice reflects best practice, remains evidence-based, is current, and responsive to meet changing patient and NHS service needs.
    • Implement the legal rules, statutory regulations, and professional responsibilities relating to practice.
    • Take responsibility for post-registration education and for continuing professional development.
    • Receive clinical supervision in accordance with the trust Clinical Supervision Policy.
  • Finance and Workforce
    • Make best use of available workforce resources based on agreed staffing model ensuring provision of best care possible.
    • Take part in PEAT and environmental risk assessments as requested.
    • Undertake appraisals for staff at Band 5 and below to identify training and development needs.
    • Assist in staff disciplinary issues.
    • Implementation of managerial and clinical supervision to small team of nurses.
    • Manage temporary staffing resources in line with AWP best practice guidance.
    • Ensure that service provision is both safe and therapeutic within span of knowledge.
  • Record Keeping and Administration
    • Maintain and enforce standards of record keeping and associated administration in accordance with AWP Trust Policy and local joint arrangements.
    • The upkeep of contemporaneous, chronological, and accurate mental health records.
    • Contribution to the achievement of Controls Assurance Standards relating to Records Management.
  • Evidence-Based Nursing, Practice Development & Clinical Audit
    • Be involved in practice development activity and evidence-based mental health nursing.
    • Undertake relevant practice development/research activity.
    • Take part in a rolling programme of audit.
    • Comply with activity as outlined in The Essence of Care.
  • Professional Nursing Advice
    • Contribute to providing professional nursing advice within the post-holder's area of responsibility and span of knowledge.
    Person Specification
    • Qualifications
      • RN3: Mental Health Nurse Level 1
      • Mentorship qualification
    • Experience
      • Able to demonstrate experience of effective risk assessment and management planning.
      • Experience of working in an acute setting as a Band 5 for the past 2 years.
      • Experience of undertaking supervision for junior staff.
    • Skills
      • Ability to plan, implement, and evaluate care and act accordingly to any changes required.
      • Excellent documentation and communication skills, including writing reports and IT.
      • Excellent verbal communication skills.
    • Knowledge
      • Good understanding and implementation of the Mental Health Act 1983/2007.
      • Good understanding and implementation of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
      • Safe practice around the administration, management, and disposal of medications.

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