Community Learning Disability Nurse ManagerNHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

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; older 
adult specific mental health, dementia, frailty and physical healthcare, to lead 
at ward or divisional level the sharing of best practice and innovation to benefit 
the whole division
-To support and supervise staff to enhance the skills, knowledge and expertise 
of the team in line with current evidence based research, training and 
modelling 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 complex 
presentations
-To lead on local quality improvement initiatives, delivery of outcomes following 
RCAs and investigations, CQC assurance and local audit
-To recognise situations that may be detrimental to the health and well-being of 
the service users and carers with the aim of providing shared and agreed plan 
of care for resolving the crisis situation and preventing further crisis situations 
from occurring
-To support embedding both the national and locally agreed clinical and 
professional standards within the service. 
-To support the development and review of service outcomes 

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Professional responsibilities 
- To maintain registration and all professional and personal development 
requirements.
-To support and contribute towards the organisation’s clinical governance 
systems, supporting quality standards and work towards the continuous 
improvement 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 and 
report as appropriate in line with policy and process.
Clinical Responsibilities 
- Senior Staff Nurse in older adult inpatient wards providing enhanced knowledge 
and skills, linking with the matron agenda, community specialist nurses and 
specific care pathways.
-To supervise junior nursing staff, supporting day-to-day practice and ongoing 
development
-To provide and contribute to the effective assessment of patients and lead the 
nursing element of the development of multi-disciplinary care plans
-To ensure that positive risk management, patient safety and reduction of harm is 
at the centre of ward nursing practice.
-To both be Named Nurse/Key worker for an identified cohort of patients and 
support 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, both 
locally defined and nationally prescribed. 
-To support the development, implementation and review of effective policies and 
procedures. 
-To recieve lessons learned and contribute to the development and 
implementation 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 and 
other professional groups as required
-To have a contemporary working knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 and 
its applications in practice, the rights of patients and any future amendments. 
- To deliver clinical supervision and ensure a commitment to their own supervision 
requirements as per policy.
- To be responsible for supporting the maintenance of clinical standards in the 
ward environment and across the division, working closely with Older Adult 
Matrons
- Work with the ward managers to ensure equitable use of all resources to support 
an effective service. 
- To support the instigation and continuation of CQC standards, infection control 
standards, National patient safety standards and standards for better health. 
Educational and Research responsibilities 
-Develop and implement internal learning processes to evaluate and monitor the 
assessment process. 
-To participate on relevant research projects relating to the service 
-To ensure clinical practice develops through the critical analysis and evaluation of 
evidence based research findings 
-To take opportunities to develop specialist knowledge in line with the role 
requirements, personal development conversations and needs of the service.
Management responsibilities 
- To attend relevant steering groups and forums appropriate to the development of 
the Inpatient Services. 
- To be consistent and active in improving and evaluating the effectiveness of the 
service through feedback from service users.
- To conduct appraisals and Supervision within the team, being aware of the 
particular 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 care 
economy 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 of 
communication on complex matters, issues and ideas, between staff, service 
users and carers.
- To represent the team at appropriate meetings and ensure information is 
cascaded to the team.
Leadership Skills 
- To promote the ethos of a flexible service, that places service users and their
family at the centre of their care
- To promote the values and ethos of the service in line with the principles and the 
policy implementation guidelines. 
- To promote equity and equality in accessibility to the service. 
- To undertake any other duties of a similar nature consistent with the 
responsibilities of this post in order to provide a quality inpatient service.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

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

Desirable criteria

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

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