Job summary
Are you looking for an opportunity to support the delivery of excellent patient care?
Are you keen to be at the forefront of service development and innovative practice?
Are you keen to seek solutions and ensure excellent services are delivered to patients?
If so, there is an innovative and exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary team within Adult Eating Disorders across Durham, Darlington and Teesside. You will join a skilled team and take a lead in delivering and supporting the delivery of safe, effective and person centred care.
Main duties of the job
If successful you will support the mixed sex Inpatient Specialist Adult Eating Disorder ward based at West Park Hospital Darlington, Adult Eating Disorder Community team, Day service and day service at home teams based at Imperial Avenue in Norton. This is an exciting time to join the Adult Eating Disorder team as we progress with service development within the organisation and alongside our colleagues at CNTW as part of the Provider Collaborative.
Alongside the below duties of the post (not exhaustive) you will also take a lead on development, assurance and supporting the team with the transformation in order to ensure patient safety:
- Lead by example
- Ensure service users receive quality care
- Ensure staffing levels are appropriate to service user needs and compliant (implementing the Safe Staffing approach)
- Empowering nurses to take on a wide range of clinical tasks (commensurate with their competency level)
- Improve cleanliness
- Ensure service users nutritional needs are met
- Improve the ward environment for service users
- Make sure service users are treated with dignity and respect by the service
- Put measures in place to prevent Hospital Acquired Infection Resolve problems for service users and their relatives and build close relationships
About us
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Additional contact details: Sarah Tweddle, Associate Director of Nursing s.tweddle@nhs.net or Rebecca O'Keeffe, Service Manager, rebecca.okeeffe@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
Additional contact details: Sarah Tweddle, Associate Director of Nursing s.tweddle@nhs.net or Rebecca O'Keeffe, Service Manager, rebecca.okeeffe@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RNMH / RNLD, current professional registration with NMC
- BSc/BA degree in Health related field (if not already a degree level nurse
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to master's level equivalent
- Leadership qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- Recognised clinical teaching qualification or equivalent clinical mentoring and teaching experience
- Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willing to undertake within agreed timescale.
- Evidence of continuous personal development
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience working with people with complex mental ill health or learning disabilities in an inpatient or community environment.
- Extensive experience working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Extensive experience in a clinical nurse leadership role
- Extensive experience providing clinical supervision, mentoring and teaching to healthcare professionals and students.
- Significant experience in a first line management role in a ward or community team.
- Significant experience delivering change and service improvement across more than one setting
- Significant experience resolving complex and challenging situations in collaboration with other disciplines and agencies
Knowledge
Essential
- Significant evidenced based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field
- Good understanding of Recovery principles and application in practice
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- RNMH / RNLD, current professional registration with NMC
- BSc/BA degree in Health related field (if not already a degree level nurse
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree/diploma supplemented by specialist training or equivalent experience to master's level equivalent
- Leadership qualification or willingness to work towards. Qualification must be achieved within agreed timescale.
- Recognised clinical teaching qualification or equivalent clinical mentoring and teaching experience
- Quality Improvement Systems for Leaders or willing to undertake within agreed timescale.
- Evidence of continuous personal development
- Key skills in literacy, numeracy and ITQ level 2 (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience working with people with complex mental ill health or learning disabilities in an inpatient or community environment.
- Extensive experience working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers
- Extensive experience in a clinical nurse leadership role
- Extensive experience providing clinical supervision, mentoring and teaching to healthcare professionals and students.
- Significant experience in a first line management role in a ward or community team.
- Significant experience delivering change and service improvement across more than one setting
- Significant experience resolving complex and challenging situations in collaboration with other disciplines and agencies
Knowledge
Essential
- Significant evidenced based knowledge of best practice in caring for patients in the designated field
- Good understanding of Recovery principles and application in practice
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
