Clinical Nurse Lead - Older Peoples Mental Health

Job summary

Are you passionate about excellence in mental health care for older people? Do you want to work for a service that values your contribution? The Older Peoples Mental Health inpatient service is for you.

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Older Persons Mental Health Services to join a highly motivated and dynamic team delivering person centered care for patients within our newly opened Sunniside Ward; a 10 Bedded, Functional Assessment ward. This is a newly developed post as we drive to bring clinical expertise and leadership into the team.

The successful candidate will be a Registered Mental Health Nurse with the drive , enthusiasm and experience to work as part of a collective leadership team to lead the team through the next phase of transformation. You should have significant experience of working within Older Peoples Mental Health, be able to demonstrate a patient-centred approach, excellent assessment, risk management and care planning skills, work effectively within a multi-disciplinary approach and model caring and compassionate behaviours. The ideal candidate will also have experience of leading teams through service improvement. You will have the opportunity to maximise your current skill set and will be supported to develop new ones. We are committed to support staff training/development needs. 

Main duties of the job

To be responsible and accountable for ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and efficient care to Service users as allocated within the designated pathway.

Practice autonomously within the Pathway and in accordance with local and trust Policy, Protocols, Standards and Guidelines.

Provide clinical advice, leadership and supervision to other staff within the team.

Contribute to the appraisal and personal development of clinical staff. Support with the management of performance if this is identified as an issue.

Identify, organise and where appropriate, lead on the delivery of relevant clinical training, in order to ensure the highest standard of evidence based clinical interventions.

Undertake audits and lead on the associated action plans.

Demonstrate clinical excellence in relation to clinical reasoning and decision making when managing complex cases.

Support the team managers with service and team development.

Provide direct Clinical Interventions at an Advanced Practitioner level.

To provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity.

This post is subject to enhanced DBS disclosure. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Criminal Records Bureau check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role.

About us

Based in the North East of England, we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities. Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then we have consistently achieved high levels of care for our patients. As a group we employ around 4,200 staff and currently provide 600 hospital beds across Gateshead. Our primary focus is on providing excellent general health services to our local community complimented by key specialist areas including Gynacology, maternity, pallative care and old age psychiatry.

In line with new legislation, all NHS staff and volunteers directly involved in patient facing roles will need to be fully vaccinated with both their first and second Covid vaccines by 1st April 2022. Gateshead Health Foundation Trust provides CQC regulated activity and is required to ensure that staff and volunteers comply with these regulations when they come into force. Therefore, staff and volunteers who are appointed to join the Trust working in roles ‘in scope’ of this legislation will be required to evidence their vaccination status as part of the routine NHS Pre Employment checks process.