Job summary
Are you a Mental Health Nurse with supervisory or leadership experience?
You will be joining our Older Adults and Dementia Mental Health Oak Ward at The Redwoods Centre, Shrewsbury. Oak Ward is an assessment ward mainly covering Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
We provide care for males and females with possible or diagnosed organic mental illnesses. We also care for older adults with a functional mental health diagnosis. You will be responsible for leading by example to junior colleagues within the team, acting as Nurse in Charge of the ward, and providing clinical leadership.
Main duties of the job:
1. Participate in setting and evaluating clinical and educational standards for the service, developing systems to measure and monitor these standards.
2. Develop effective communication within your area of responsibility and foster positive working relationships with individuals, departments, and community care agencies. Plan for future service development to meet client needs.
3. Ensure optimal utilization of manpower resources and keep management informed about service needs, developments, and priorities.
4. Establish a positive team climate that promotes the development of staff attitudes, knowledge, and skills.
5. Provide evidence-based specialist clinical advice and contribute to future service development.
6. Actively participate in delivering objectives set with quality leads to improve clinical standards.
7. Monitor workload management within the service.
8. Undertake clinical audits and quality monitoring as appropriate.
9. Participate in setting quality standards, including auditing, monitoring, and reviewing practices in line with current clinical guidelines and policies.
10. Serve as a clinical supervisor.
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return, we will support you through:
* Career development and progression opportunities
* Excellent NHS Pension scheme
* Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
* Flexible working options
* Up to 27 days annual leave, increasing to 33 days with service, plus options to purchase additional leave
* Extensive health and wellbeing support and resources
* If working in community teams, we pay for your travel time between patients
* Lease car option for over 500 business miles/year, fully insured and maintained, mileage paid at lease car rate
* Salary sacrifice car scheme, fully insured and maintained, with gross pay reduced before tax, NI, and pension deductions; mileage paid at business rates
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2,000
* Free parking at all trust sites
* Annual free flu vaccinations
* Citizens Advice support linked with a hardship fund providing up to £250 for eligible cases
We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organization with staff networks to help you connect with like-minded colleagues.
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