Lead Nurse

4 months ago


West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Humankind Full time
Job Details

Lead Nurse

Working week:
Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
Location: Required to travel across all three Leeds sites in Armely, Irford and Kirkgate. 

We have an exciting opportunity in Forward Leeds for a Lead Nurse where you will play a crucial role in delivering, developing and maintaining excellent clinical practice. Youll have the chance to make a real difference to the lives of the people we support, working with them to develop the personal, flexible, and realistic support packages they need to help turn things around. This is an opportunity to not only deliver health care services in a supportive environment, but to be involved in a CQC outstanding service to ensure the people of Leeds continue to receive the best possible support.

About the role...
As the Lead Nurse, the successful candidate will work alongside the Clinical Services Lead and deputise in their absence. You will have previous experience of leading clinicians, with the ability to provide sound clinical advice to colleagues and offer support in clinical decision-making. The prescribing qualification is not essential for this role, but Humankind will support those wishing to undertake this qualification. Humankinds clinical teams are supported by a multi-disciplinary, forward thinking, and innovative Clinical Department. Regular clinical supervision, peer support groups, appraisal and support with revalidation is available, as well as generous CPD time and annual leave.  Humankind offers a competitive pension scheme and covers all Clinicians under the Medical Indemnity Policy.

Key duties will include:
  • Work with the Service Clinical Director and Operational Director to ensure good integrated governance, effectiveness and best practice within the service.
  • Provide clinical leadership to Nurses, Healthcare Assistants and IPs to inform and influence clinical culture, quality and standards, and implementation of clinical models.
  • Implement a robust health care and wellbeing assessment process. Deliver health promotion and harm reduction interventions in a person-centred manner (e.g. safer sex, contraception, nutrition and healthy living), and ensure Needle and Syringe Protocols adhere to the Humankind national minimum standards.
  • Prescribe medication for service users requiring alcohol community detoxification/Opiate Replacement Therapy in line with Humankind medicine management policies and governance procedures.
  • Coordinate and participate in home visits for those whos health prohibits them from attending services.
  • Manage, mentor, coach and ensure the development of staff reporting to you.
  • Contribute to the maintenance of service user clinical databases.
About you...
  • Qualified General or Psychiatric Nurse with current NMC PIN.
  • Experience at a senior level of working with clients who use substances.
  • Experience of assessing clients and generating prescriptions to meet clinical and psychosocial need according to best practice and organisational policy.
  • Experience of carrying out general health care including BBV, phlebotomy, health promotion / harm reduction interventions, advice and information.
  • Driving licence and access to own vehicle is preferred but not essential. 
Do you want to work as a senior clinician in a robust and innovative environment where you can use your clinical skills and creativity to support people in achieving their best outcomes? If youre looking for a change and want to be part of an outstanding substance misuse service, then now is the time to join Humankind

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The salary advertised above demonstrates the full earning potential for this role, starting salaries will allow for pay progression within the pay band.

What can Humankind offer you ️ Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years service) Annual leave purchase scheme Enhanced occupational sick pay  % Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension Death in service benefit ️ Free Will writing Eyecare vouchers ️ Blue light card discount Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses Work-life balance- flexible working and family friendly policies ‍️  Happy, Healthy You our wellbeing offers for our workforce Employee Assist Programme and Humankind Support Networks

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