Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Practice Lead
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-A&UC-9333-A
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Swift Ward, Radlett
- Town
- Radlett
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 per annum pro rata (includes 5% high cost area)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Practice Lead
Band 7
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
http://hpft.recruitforvalues.com/
Job overview
We have an opportunity for an experienced nurse who is Band 6 or above.
The role is within the Acute & Urgent Care Division (Inpatients), based at the friendly and supportive team at Swift Ward, Kingfisher Court, Radlett.
Come and join an outstanding Trust!
Swift Ward is a 18 bedded acute mental health assessment and treatment ward offering acute mental health care to adults. The ward provides mixed sex accommodation and has a multi-disciplinary team including psychologists, occupational therapy, recreational workers as well as the nursing and medical team.
The Clinical Practice Lead will provide professional and practice development support to the acute assessment unit (AAU) nursing staff on all aspects of mental health nursing.
As delegated by the clinical matron, the post holder will support the implementation of the purposeful admission model including associated nursing interventions, policies, and standards.
This will be delivered through a highly visible presence within the AAU and will be underpinned by demonstrating values-based approach to the delivery of compassionate, safe, and effective patient care.
For an informal chat, contact Amarni on 01923 633788
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
- Support to develop and enhance nursing practice, skills, and competencies within inpatient setting through a variety of means, but strongly linked to direct ‘shop floor’ practice
- Share good practice within AAU services in line local, Trust and national standards and policy
- Responsible for developing innovative clinical and evidence-based nursing practice in line with agreed priorities, standards, policies, and guidance, ensuring that nurses at all levels are involved in the process
- Facilitate the dissemination of new and updated polices and guidance, and auditing application in practice
- Work with the wider leadership team in developing and delivering workshops, training, and education in line with service and local priorities and initiatives
In return, we can offer you:
- leadership and management training opportunities
- 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
- 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
- One of the UK's best pension schemes
- Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
- Special leave for family and personal reasons
- NHS Car Lease Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Critically contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of clinical guidelines, procedures and policies and the monitoring of nursing standards including nursing care assurance
Maintain effective working relationships with all members of the nursing, multidisciplinary team (MDT) and team leader and other operational management managers.
For a More in-depth Person and Job Description, please read the attached before applying
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION /TRAINING
Essential criteria
- RN (Mental Health)
- BSC in Nursing or equivalent
- Demonstrable evidence of CPD with direct relevance to this post
Desirable criteria
- V300 (non-medical prescribing)
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience at Band 6 or above in acute mental health inpatient setting
- Experience of supervising junior staff
- Experience of leading a nursing team i.e., nurse in charge
- Experience of undertaking nursing audits e.g., Fundamentals of care, IPC
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Essential criteria
- Evidence of undertaking risk assessments and developing risk management plans and wellbeing plans
- Good understand of the functions of acute assessment unit (AAU) and of the purposeful admission model.
- Good understanding of practice governance and continuous improvement processes including risk management and audit
- Delivering effective practice that is evidence based.
- Ability to make clinical decisions within a context of complexity and stressful to determine accurate assessment and outcome
- Evidence of practice development and of implementing innovative practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amarni Anderson-Dudzinski
- Job title
- Clinical Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01923 633788
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