Senior Staff Nurse

Job summary

Job PurposeTo 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 multi disciplinary 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 auditTo 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 occurringTo support embedding both the national and locally agreed clinical andprofessional standards within the service.

Main duties of the job

Full Main duties of the role can be located in the documents section.

Overview:

Communication.

Professional responsibilities.

Clinical Responsibilities

Leadership skills.

Management responsibilities.

Education and Research responsibilities.

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Trust ValuesEmployees, workers, and / or contractors will be expected to uphold the values of the Trust and exhibit the expected Trust behaviours aligned to the Trust's values.Individuals have a responsibility to ensure that they display the Trust values and behaviours in carrying out their job and that individuals feel able to challenge (or raise a challenge) when other colleagues' behaviours breach the spirit of Trust values.