Senior Staff Nurse

Job summary

The role of Senior Staff Nurse, in the Older Adults Division has been developed to create a new and innovative career pathway for experienced nurses who wish to pursue clinical excellence and drive the quality agenda on our wards. Working closely with Matrons, Clinical Leads and Allied Health Professionals and taking a key role in supervision within the nursing team.

You will be supported to pursue further professional development aligned to divisional priorities for patients, which include, dementia, older adult specific mental health problems, therapies, frailty, physical health and tissue viability.

Reporting into the Ward Manager, you would be working in a multi-faceted role encompassing training and development, clinical governance, quality and continuous improvement as well as a heavy focus on developing and improving care planning, implementing research and evidence based practice.

This is a relatively new role which is working well within the older adult division and the successful candidate will be part of an exciting and robust team to develop and embed this role into our services and culture - and we encourage you to be a part of this outstanding opportunity to enhance your nursing career.

Main duties of the job

To take a lead role in the ward based nursing team, with responsibility for:- Clinical priorities for the older adult mental health division, that include; olderadult specific mental health, dementia, frailty and physical healthcare, to leadat ward or divisional level the sharing of best practice and innovation to benefitthe whole division-To support and supervise staff to enhance the skills, knowledge and expertiseof the team in line with current evidence based research, training andmodelling in line with their specialist knowledge-Delivery of clinical supervision for junior nursing and healthcare support staff-To co-ordinate the nursing elements of care delivery as part of the wider multidisciplinary team-Act as Named Nurse where required for ensuring co-ordination of assessing,planning and providing management guidance on interventions for complexpresentations-To lead on local quality improvement initiatives, delivery of outcomes followingRCAs and investigations, CQC assurance and local audit-To recognise situations that may be detrimental to the health and well-being ofthe service users and carers with the aim of providing shared and agreed planof care for resolving the crisis situation and preventing further crisis situationsfrom occurring-To support embedding both the national and locally agreed clinical andprofessional standards within the service.-To support the development and review of service outcomes

About us

These are exciting times for Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as we're building a high-calibre, diverse and inclusive mental health workforce. One that will give talented professionals like you the opportunity to shape an outstanding service that will transform in-patient mental healthcare and deliver happier and healthier lives across our communities.

The Trust is rated 'Good' from CQC (Care Quality Commission) and in July 2022 became the lead provider for mental health services across the Black Country. We have recently invested in newly created clinical divisions and are currently developing new models of integrated primary and secondary care for adults and older adults, as well launching a far-reaching inpatient strategy, including multi-million pound investment in building new facilities and work-force models.

This ambitious model is multi-agency and multi-disciplinary, opening the door for you to work collaboratively with partners, service users, carers and their families.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Professional responsibilities - To maintain registration and all professional and personal developmentrequirements.-To support and contribute towards the organisations clinical governancesystems, supporting quality standards and work towards the continuousimprovement in clinical and service quality.- To observe confidentiality in all matters relating to service users and staff.-To adhere to trust policies and procedures.-To participate in clinical and managerial supervision as per trust policy.

-To observe and practice in accordance with adult safeguarding guidelines andreport as appropriate in line with policy and process.Clinical Responsibilities- Senior Staff Nurse in older adult inpatient wards providing enhanced knowledgeand skills, linking with the matron agenda, community specialist nurses andspecific care pathways.-To supervise junior nursing staff, supporting day-to-day practice and ongoingdevelopment-To provide and contribute to the effective assessment of patients and lead thenursing element of the development of multi-disciplinary care plans-To ensure that positive risk management, patient safety and reduction of harm isat the centre of ward nursing practice.-To both be Named Nurse/Key worker for an identified cohort of patients andsupport junior staff in their role, specifically when aligned to complex needs,specialist knowledge and multi-agency working.-To support the development, implementation and monitoring of standards, bothlocally defined and nationally prescribed.-To support the development, implementation and review of effective policies andprocedures.-To recieve lessons learned and contribute to the development andimplementation of action plans.-To ensure the clinical environment being conducive to learning for junior staff,student nurses and the wider MDT.-To provide educational material for staff, service users, family members andother professional groups as required-To have a contemporary working knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 andits applications in practice, the rights of patients and any future amendments.- To deliver clinical supervision and ensure a commitment to their own supervisionrequirements as per policy.- To be responsible for supporting the maintenance of clinical standards in theward environment and across the division, working closely with Older AdultMatrons- Work with the ward managers to ensure equitable use of all resources to supportan effective service.- To support the instigation and continuation of CQC standards, infection controlstandards, National patient safety standards and standards for better health.Educational and Research responsibilities-Develop and implement internal learning processes to evaluate and monitor theassessment process.-To participate on relevant research projects relating to the service-To ensure clinical practice develops through the critical analysis and evaluation ofevidence based research findings-To take opportunities to develop specialist knowledge in line with the rolerequirements, personal development conversations and needs of the service.Management responsibilities- To attend relevant steering groups and forums appropriate to the development ofthe Inpatient Services.- To be consistent and active in improving and evaluating the effectiveness of theservice through feedback from service users.- To conduct appraisals and Supervision within the team, being aware of theparticular developing needs of staff-To assist in the recruitment and selection of staff.Communication-To be responsible for promoting the service within BCHFT and social careeconomy and wider partnership.- Identify and mitigate any barriers to effective communication.- To promote liaison and inter agency working and collaboration- To be support the development and maintenance of effective lines ofcommunication on complex matters, issues and ideas, between staff, serviceusers and carers.- To represent the team at appropriate meetings and ensure information iscascaded to the team.Leadership Skills- To promote the ethos of a flexible service, that places service users and theirfamily at the centre of their care- To promote the values and ethos of the service in line with the principles and thepolicy implementation guidelines.- To promote equity and equality in accessibility to the service.- To undertake any other duties of a similar nature consistent with theresponsibilities of this post in order to provide a quality inpatient service.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

oRegistered Mental Health Nurses - RMN (Mental Health) oActive registration to practice Post-qualification experience of 18 months of working as a registered RMN within mental health setting including inpatient

Desirable

oExperience of working in an older adults mental health setting as part of a multi-disciplinary team oExperience of leading junior nursing and healthcare support staff in ward environment oInvolvement in research and/or clinical evaluation and audit

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