Clinical Team Leader - PICU
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
This job is now closed
Job summary
Do you think you have what it takes to work within an innovative and unique mental health service within central London?
If so, we have the opportunity for you!
Following on from the promotion of previous post holders we are looking for Registered Mental Health Nurses who are looking for a new challenge to take on the role of Clinical Team Leader on our PICU wards at St Charles. Both Nile Ward (male PICU) and Shannon Ward (female PICU) are accredited by the National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care and Low Secure Units (NAPICU) and based at St. Charles Hospital in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea with good transport links.
CNWL prides itself on its investment in staff both in terms of developing career skills but also its commitment to staff health and wellbeing.As part of this post you will receive this and much more!
As a Clinical Team Lead 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.
In addition to the above you will be expected to adopt the "Bleep Holder Role" as required where you will act as the Unit Coordinator.
Main duties of the job
Why join our PICU wards?
- An opportunity to work with our nationally accredited PICU teams. This accreditation means that they have achieved and are delivering the highest standards of clinical excellence as governed by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
- As part of this accreditation we are continuously exploring innovative ways to improve the experiences of both our service users and our staff. Our recent Quality Improvement (QI) initiative helped to reduce violence on the ward by 43%.
- We are committed to empowering our service users and to allow our staff more time to do what they love, NURSING. We have weekly Communal Cooking where a patient will cook for the other patients and staff and they will all eat this together improving relations between everyone and creating a warm, friendly environment.
- We have service user-led projects including incredible wall murals which have been completed by our service-users, gardening sessions for our new sensory garden!
- Our sensory gardenhave been created with the aim of improving our therapeutic and community-based environments.
- Through the development of our QI projects we created the Trust's first Health and Fitness Practitioner who creates enhanced workout programmes and delivers nutritional education to our service users. This has allowed these service users to feel more able to continue their recovery in the community and has led to an average of 3-6kg less weight gain since its implementation.
About us
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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 ceremoniesand 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.
Date posted
18 January 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£40,448 to £47,965 a year pa inc HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
333-J-KC-0663
Job locations
St Charles Hospital
Exmoor Street
London
W10 6DZ
Employer details
Employer name
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St Charles Hospital
Exmoor Street
London
W10 6DZ
Employer's website
For questions about the job, contact:
Supporting documents
Privacy notice
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust's privacy notice (opens in a new tab)