Overview
The Borough Lead Nurse is a key member of the Directorate Management Team who is accountable for delivering nursing leadership and services of the highest quality in the Borough.
The successful applicant will be someone whose focus is on how the needs of service users can be met through the provision of high-quality nursing services. You will be interested in the lives of people with mental health needs and how good services can make a difference to the quality and well-being of those people. You will actively seek to work with service users to that end.
Tower Hamlets is a highly diverse area of London with considerable social deprivation. Professionals work closely with service users to improve and develop services.
The Trust has also achieved excellent service ratings and as a Foundation Trust is committed to strengthening the capacity of our membership whilst developing the expertise of our workforce and our partnerships with external organisations.
You will need to demonstrate your partnership experience, your practical abilities in managing people and resources and your capacity to inspire, lead and drive improvements in our nursing and wider services.
Main duties of the job
* To provide professional leadership, manage and support nursing staff to enable improved inpatient care, develop nursing practice and clinical leadership at a local level.
* The post holder will be the responsible lead for local induction of nurses entering the service and overseeing the education, training and professional development of the nursing work force for the designated area of responsibility. Support the Director of Nursing for London to provide visible nursing leadership, advice and support to nurses in the borough.
* Ensure that all relevant statutes and professional guidance on nursing are reflected in local strategies, procedures and plans and that all nurses work within these statutory and regulatory frameworks.
* The Post Holder will be responsible for budgets for the Tower Hamlets in-patient units that include 3 older adults wards and 2 PICU wards for men and women.
* The post holder will be responsible for developing and implementing a performance management structure for all nursing staff with clearly defined, measurable objectives and will work with the Director of Nursing for London to keep the Borough's governance team informed on all emerging issues and progress on nursing performance and national targets across the borough. And strengthen the inter-professional working within the borough and the interface between the in-patients and community services
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving 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. Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community: We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High: We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rated 'Outstanding' in 2021. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United: We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity: ELFT is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
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