Job overview
East London NHS Foundation Trust currently provides mental health and learning disability services in Luton and Bedfordshire. The Bedfordshire Mental Health service has an exciting opportunity for the post of a Band 8a Ward Manager to lead and manage Jade Ward PICU - Working Age Service in Luton.
Jade Ward PICU (psychiatric intensive care unit) is an all-male service and has nine beds for patients from across Bedfordshire and Luton.
It is designed to offer short, rapid intervention to help people regain a sense of control and order so they can move forward with their recovery. This may be to a general adult mental health setting or it could be returning to their own home.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a committed and passionate Band 8a Ward Manager for Jade PICU in Luton. Interested candidates will need to demonstrate previous experience in a leadership or managerial position within a multidisciplinary team.
The successful candidate will need to be passionate about providing compassionate care and must be efficient and well organised. They will need to be good role models, have excellent communication skills, and be able to work with this vulnerable patient group and support carers in time of distress. They will need to demonstrate knowledge and skills of caring for both the physical and mental health needs of this patient group, and to be able to ensure that staff are providing care to the expected standard. The individual needs to bring a proven record of leading quality care and service improvement, also development of creativity and inclusive care environments.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Ensure and develop service user centred multi-disciplinary approach to care.
2. Develop the systems, staff skills, and abilities to provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care in keeping with evidence based practice.
3. Lead in direct care to complex service users or groups of service users and role model to junior staff.
4. Developing a learning environment and opportunities for staff to obtain specialist guidance relevant to complex care or clinical specialty.
5. Ensuring that a high standard of practice is maintained in relation to the detention of mentally ill clients under the Mental Health Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. Ensuring that least restrictive practices are promoted within individual care.
6. Ensure that the team develops and implements specialist programmes of care which could include individual and group interventions.
7. Ensure that care reflects individual and cultural needs.
8. Ensuring that all practices are within the guidelines set out by the NMC and other professional groups and are in accordance with Trust policies.
A full job description is below
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
9. Registered Nurse (Mental Health) OR Registered Nurse (Learning Difficulty) OR Registered Nurse (Adult)
10. Masters qualification or equivalent experience
11. Evidence of Leadership / Management Training
Desirable criteria
12. Specialist Area Training
13. Relevant teaching or assessing qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
14. Experience of working as a clinical lead in a mental health environment at band 7 level or above
15. Evidence of quality improvement
16. Minimising clinical risk and reducing restrictive practices
17. Experience of providing individualized and culturally sensitive care
18. Developing a reflective learning culture
19. Experience of managing budgets
20. Knowledge and experience of managing complex safeguarding practices
Desirable criteria
21. Experience of leading and working with a multi-disciplinary teams
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
22. Excellent verbal and written communication skills
23. Ensuring team/service high quality care including documentation
24. Proven track record of implementation of strategy, change management and practice development
25. Excellent clinical skills with complex service users and their care
26. Emotional Intelligence and Personal Resilience NMC Code of Conduct
27. Promotion of high quality supervision and reflective practice
Desirable criteria
28. Current Developments in nursing
Other
Essential criteria
29. Motivate team to providing the highest standards of care in a changing service
30. Flexible working patterns in line with service needs
31. Able to work within the accountability framework Personal Integrity
Desirable criteria
32. Awareness of equal opportunities in the workplace