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Communication

• Ensuring that best practice undertaken is shared with colleagues in the directorate and the Trust.
• Helping staff to use clinical information within the team to help improve the quality of patient care.
• Encouraging staff to be involved in service changes and developments using processes defined within the directorate.
• Being able to demonstrate clear lines of communication within a defined clinical area which result in clear responsibilities being identified within the multi-professional team.
• Creating a culture where staff have appropriate authority over issues that contribute to the provision of essential care and enable them to secure and achieve the highest quality standards.
• Being a visible point of contact for patients, visitors, relatives, and staff acting as a resource for problems and needs and able to clearly present the patient’s view to others.
• Participating in the development of patient care policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Assisting in the establishment, motivation, and development of the clinical team with a clear focus and direction.
• Providing an authoritative and credible source of knowledge and specialist clinical advice and support to the team.

Clinical and governance

• Undertake clinical practice within competency to support management resolution of complex cases where there are barriers to effective joint working between maternity and mental health services. Delivered through direct care contacts or consultation and guidance
• To ensure development and maintenance of the clinical pathways
• Review practice regularly and contribute to implementing any changes in line with current evidence base practice
• Chair and investigate post incident reviews, team management reviews and complaints as required
• Support the sharing of lessons learnt and actions following RCAs, complaints and investigations.

Planning & organising

• A sense of vision and ability to innovate - the post-holder will be expected to demonstrate the ability to focus on long-term strategic goals
• Politically astute with an ability to sensitively manage complexity and uncertainty
• Ability to problem solve and maintain objectivity
• Strong interpersonal, communication, written and presentation skills
• Ability to quickly establish personal and professional credibility with colleagues and other key stakeholders
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• Ability to lead and work across boundaries, enabling partners to collaborate.
• Personal leadership style and qualities that help colleagues shape and determine the future vision for SPS.
• Committed to own continuing personal development and an ability to support others to develop and progress
• Commitment to patient and public involvement
• Understanding of SPS data
• Ability to work flexibly
• Awareness of the financial and human resources implications of activity

Management

·       Ensure and support team compliance with relevant Trust, professional and local authority policies, procedures, protocols, and guidelines.

·       To lead on Team Management Reviews and Clinical Incident reviews and take responsibility for recommendations arising

Research, Development and Audit

• Use research to support evidence-based practice and shape the strategic direction of support for service users experiencing perinatal mental health conditions.
• Developing a culture that ensures the contribution to research and the use of evidence to support innovation and practice at team level.

Human resources

·       Undertake Leadership responsibility for the Nursery nurses

·       Support recruitment and selection process.

·       Ensure that staff receive management and clinical supervision as per policy.

·       Ensure that staff have an annual Appraisal and Personal Development Plan, in accordance with the Knowledge Skills Framework and identifying their developmental and training needs. Ensure that staff meet statutory training requirements

·       Undertake responsibility for attendance management procedures as per Trust Policy.

·       Undertake responsibility for monitoring the performance of staff, ensuring appropriate accountability, and implementing competency and disciplinary procedures as appropriate, using the relevant GMMH or policies and procedures.

·       To support HR issues in conjunction with the leadership team and HR

Responsibility for Patient care

·       Promote a service which is trauma informed, inclusive and accessible.

• Supervise and support management of complex cases.

Physical Skills and Effort

• Mobility within hospital, regular local and regional travel.

Responsibility for Policy and Service Development and Implementation

·       Working autonomously within professional guidelines and the overall framework of the team’s policies and procedures.

• To be aware of, comment on and/or actively participate in changes on policies, procedures, or service developments.
• To embrace and support line management and the department in making service improvements effective within the workplace.
• Work with colleagues to ensure that there is routine screening and early identification of women with, or at risk of trauma.
• Work with colleagues to ensure that women and their families receive appropriate trauma informed care and information about their condition in a sensitive way.

Responsibilities for Physical and / or Financial Resources

·       Ensure safe and efficient use of equipment, resources, and consumables at all times.

·       Undertake responsibility for monitoring and countersigning staff expenses

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Responsibilities for Teaching and Training

·       Design, deliver and evaluate training and development activities that are relevant to the job role.

Responsibilities for data and information resources

·       To keep accurate and complete records of all activities. This includes documentation in patient files and access to several computer systems e.g.  Euroking, Early Help (safeguarding) systems and PARIS.

Trust Mandatory On-going Requirements - to be met by the candidate after commencing in post, these will not be assessed at the recruitment stage

·     To undertake any other reasonable duty, when requested to do so by an appropriate Trust manager.

·     To understand and comply with all Trust policies, procedures, protocols, and guidelines.

·     To understand the Trusts Strategic Goals and how you can support them.

·     To understand the need to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and adhere to all principles in effective safeguarding.

·     To carry out all duties and responsibilities of the post in accordance with Equal Opportunities, Equality and Diversity and dignity in care/work policies and principles

·     To avoid unlawful discriminatory behaviour and actions when dealing with the colleagues, services users, members of the public and all stakeholders.

·     To access only information, where paper, electronic, or, in another media, which is authorised to you as part of the duties of your role.

·     Not to communicate to anyone or inside or outside the NHS, information relating to patients, services users, staff, contractors, or any information of a commercially sensitive nature, unless done in the normal course of carrying out the duties of the post and with appropriate permission.

·     To maintain high standards of quality in corporate and clinical record keeping ensuring information is always recorded accurately, appropriately and kept up to date.

·     To ensure their day-to-day activities embrace sustainability and reduce the impact upon the environment by minimising waste and maximising recycling; saving energy; minimising water usage and reporting electrical faults, water leakages or other environmental concerns to the facilities department or their line manager.

·     Take reasonable care of the health and safety of yourself and other persons

·     To contribute to the control of risk and to report any incident, accident or near miss

·     To protect service users, visitors, and employees against the risk of acquiring health care associated infections.

·     To take responsibility for your own learning and development by recognising and taking advantage of all opportunities to learn in line with appraisal and supervision.

See attached detailed job description and person specification:

Staff benefits    

Pay Enhancements – 30% additional for Evenings (8pm onwards) and Saturdays and 60% additional for Sundays and Bank holidays.  

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising to 29 after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years         

Excellent pension            

Cycle to work scheme   

Salary sacrifice car scheme         

Wellbeing programme  

Blue Light Card Discounts