Overview
The Senior Clinical Lead Nurse provides specialist knowledge and experience working with people with learning disabilities, mental health, and behaviours that challenge.
The role will provide clinical leadership to the Learning Disability Najurally Centre assessment and treatment unit (ATU), providing their expertise and advice on shift on clinical risk and mental health assessment, formulation, care planning for people requiring admission to the Najurally Centre.
The role involves recognising the importance of collaboration and effective teamwork in providing optimal patient care.
The Senior Clinical Lead Nurse will form positive relationships and open lines of communication with other healthcare providers, facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration, actively contribute to care conferences, case discussions and interdisciplinary meetings, sharing insights and ensuring a holistic approach to patient care working on shift with members of the Multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
You will develop and use flexible and innovative approaches to practice that are appropriate to the needs of the client group, and which are in line with the goals of the Trust and wider integrated care system (ICS).
* Provide direct clinical care and act as a role model for exemplary nursing practice in the Najurally Centre and across the wider ICS.
* Support on shift in and out of hours collaborating with the ward manager and ANPs, providing expertise and specialist knowledge in collaboration with the ward manager to manage, risk, safeguarding, patient safety, and staff well-being.
* Be a member of the learning disability locality collective leadership team and responsible for the delivery of safe and effective nursing practice across the inpatient pathways. You will develop standard operating procedures and be responsible for communicating these policies within the team.
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
* We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
* We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
* We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
* Increase mileage rates for > 3500
* A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
* A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
* Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
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