Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Team Leader - Mental Health Acute Ward
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Job Overview
Are you looking to work for a team that will make you feel empowered and proud to be a Nurse? To work in an environment that will allow you to develop and flourish as a practitioner? We are looking for Registered Mental Health Nurses who are looking for a new challenge to take on the role of Clinical Team Leader.
As a Clinical Team Leader you will form an integral part of the MDT and be responsible for supporting the Ward manager to lead a dedicated team of registered and unregistered staff by having an active role in developing, monitoring and maintaining care standards; through role modelling, clear decision making and demonstrating your highly developed clinical skills.
Main duties of the job
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details.
Key responsibilities include:
- Running ward shifts and ensuring appropriate staffing levels
- Providing clinical and managerial supervision to nurses and HCAs
- Assisting with managerial tasks such as interviewing, roster management
- Regular nursing tasks such as engaging in therapeutic interactions with service users, medication administration
- Helping to maintain high ward standards, including regular auditing, incident investigation, and opportunities for quality improvement projects
Why join our wards?
We are committed to empowering our service users and to allow our staff more time to do what they love; NURSING. We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, within the hospital setting. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people. We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career. With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across the unit, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Working for our organisation
You will be offered;
- Shift work that can support you to have a healthier work-life balance
- Great transportation links that will make your commute easier
- Commitment to develop you as a practitioner as evidenced by current staff progressing to Band 7 positions and others being supported to complete their Nursing Advocate and Advanced Clinical Practitioner training
- Opportunities to shadow our other services at St Charles such as HTT, FRT, HBPoS and speciality inpatient services
- Regular supervision and career mapping including development programmes
- Participation in case-formulation and specialist, psychology-led training sessions
- The chance to work with a strong, forward-thinking and innovative service that will allow you to flourish as a practitioner and do what you do best, nursing
- Hidden Gem, annual award ceremonies and award-winning Staff Networks that have thousands of members and exciting events
- Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include:
- Running ward shifts and ensuring appropriate staffing levels
- Providing clinical and managerial supervision to nurses and HCAs
- Assisting with managerial tasks such as interviewing, roster management
- Regular nursing tasks such as engaging in therapeutic interactions with service users, medication administration
- Helping to maintain high ward standards, including regular auditing, incident investigation, and opportunities for quality improvement projects
“Please note that this role requires successful candidates to be able to engage in Therapeutic Management of Violence and Aggression (TMVA) training, including the use of force techniques. This is because of the high-acuity nature of the ward environment and the need to ensure the safety of both patients and staff. The role is conditional upon candidates being able to engage in TMVA training during the course of their employment whilst undertaking this role.”
Person specification
Education And Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered NMC nurse in Mental Health
- Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
- Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
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Desirable criteria
- Practice assessor/ supervisor training completed, completion of preceptorship
- Completion of medication competency assessment
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience working as a Band 5 nurse in Adult Inpatient Mental Health Services
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Communication: Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
- Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
- Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
- Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
- Help others in the team achieve their objectives and deliver safe, effective care
- Mentor, teach and support others in the team
- Supervise others in the team
- Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind and hard working
- Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
Desirable criteria
- Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
- HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence, healthroster
- Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential criteria
- Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
- Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
- Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
- Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
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