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We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Lead to
join one of our acute inpatient units. The successful candidate will manage a
unit which comprises nurse/senior nurse practitioners and nursing assistants.
This is an exciting time as Navigo's acute service is changing and developing
to ensure we continue to deliver outstanding service.
Main duties of the job
As the Clinical Lead you will lead a dynamic team
based within acute inpatient services working on one of the inpatient units.
You should display clear leadership skills and skills for managing patient
admissions and discharges and assessment of specialist clinical conditions over
and above the general patient assessment. You will work with and deal with
highly complex clinical and operational activities and you will be required to
make own decisions which may impact on service users and staff. You will offer
clinical and managerial supervision to staff, report and deal with serious
untoward incidences, keep relevant policies up to date or generate new ones
where applicable. You will be responsible for work planning and allocation of
staff on a duty basis to meet organisation/service requirements, you will
coordinate recruitment and retention, investigations, absence managing and
disciplinary procedures
About us
Hello!
We are Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire mental health and well-being. We are an award-winning social enterprise that
provides mental health services to the NHS and beyond.
The whole basis of our work is
to deliver services that we would be happy for our own family to use.
We offer a range of mental
health services, including acute and community facilities as well as specialist
support such as outstanding older adults inpatient services, rehabilitation
and recovery community mental health and an outstanding specialist eating
disorder facility.
Ranked as one of the top UK
companies to work for, we featured in the Best Companies top 100 large company
list and were named sixth best health and social care company 2023.
As a social enterprise, we do
things a little bit differently and have also developed income-generating commercially
viable businesses that provide training, education and employment opportunities
including Grimsby Garden Centre and two cafes.
Working at Navigo is not like
working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we really mean it.
We like to work with
forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.
Come join us!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Managerial: responsibility for day to day
clinical cover, organising training and development, including ensuring that
staff meet mandatory requirements, implementing off duty, including organising
external staff placements, co-ordinating and authorising annual leave, authorising
stores and supplies, attending management meetings and ensuring team meetings
occur, including clinical reviews, co-ordinating health and safety issues,
managing attendance, managing administration issues.
Clinical:
the Clinical Lead will oversee admissions and discharges from inpatient care,
ensuring appropriate care packages are put in place, have specialist knowledge
and competency.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Managerial: responsibility for day to day
clinical cover, organising training and development, including ensuring that
staff meet mandatory requirements, implementing off duty, including organising
external staff placements, co-ordinating and authorising annual leave, authorising
stores and supplies, attending management meetings and ensuring team meetings
occur, including clinical reviews, co-ordinating health and safety issues,
managing attendance, managing administration issues.
Clinical:
the Clinical Lead will oversee admissions and discharges from inpatient care,
ensuring appropriate care packages are put in place, have specialist knowledge
and competency.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current qualification in health or social care to degree/diploma level. (RMN/RNMH, RNLD
- Additional post-registration qualification and evidence of study up to degree level.
- Demonstrate clinical leadership in a MDT setting.
Desirable
- Post qualification award in health/social care at degree or equivalent level.
- Clinical Supervision Training
- Nurse prescribing
- Masters level study
Experience
Essential
- Five years post-registration.
- Experience working with mental illness of a severe and enduring nature.
- Knowledge of relapse prevention.
- Ability to demonstrate clinical leadership.
- Management of staff of different professional and none professional backgrounds
Desirable
- Psycho-social interventions
- Use of clinical assessment tools
- Leadership
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Proven and advanced skills in the following areas:
- Ability to prioritise workload.
- Approaches to risk assessment.
- Communication and liaison with a range of others.
- Management and change management.
- Clinical abilities.
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Personal Qualifies:
- Team Worker
- Determination
- Flexibility.
- Positive attitude to change.
- Able to work across organisational boundaries
- Ability to identify and act on unmet needs
- Interests and Motivation:
- Strong team player and can demonstrate experience of team motivation
- Energetic
- Self-motivated
- Able to use initiative.
- Committed to developing and improving mental health services.
- Ability to work across the site as needs are identified
- Evidence of a commitment to user/carer involvement.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current qualification in health or social care to degree/diploma level. (RMN/RNMH, RNLD
- Additional post-registration qualification and evidence of study up to degree level.
- Demonstrate clinical leadership in a MDT setting.
Desirable
- Post qualification award in health/social care at degree or equivalent level.
- Clinical Supervision Training
- Nurse prescribing
- Masters level study
Experience
Essential
- Five years post-registration.
- Experience working with mental illness of a severe and enduring nature.
- Knowledge of relapse prevention.
- Ability to demonstrate clinical leadership.
- Management of staff of different professional and none professional backgrounds
Desirable
- Psycho-social interventions
- Use of clinical assessment tools
- Leadership
Skills & Attributes
Essential
- Proven and advanced skills in the following areas:
- Ability to prioritise workload.
- Approaches to risk assessment.
- Communication and liaison with a range of others.
- Management and change management.
- Clinical abilities.
Personal Characteristics
Essential
- Personal Qualifies:
- Team Worker
- Determination
- Flexibility.
- Positive attitude to change.
- Able to work across organisational boundaries
- Ability to identify and act on unmet needs
- Interests and Motivation:
- Strong team player and can demonstrate experience of team motivation
- Energetic
- Self-motivated
- Able to use initiative.
- Committed to developing and improving mental health services.
- Ability to work across the site as needs are identified
- Evidence of a commitment to user/carer involvement.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
