Job summary
- Main area
- Specialised Eating Disorder Inpatient Unit
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: Substantive
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 342-SS135-0824
- Employer
- Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- STEPs EDU, Acer Unit, Blackberry Hill Hospital
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum (pro rata) (pending pay award)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/08/2024 23:59
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Band 6 Charge Nurse - Eating Disorder Inpatient - Bristol
Band 6
Job overview
STEPs Specialist Eating Disorder Inpatient Unit is an AIMS Accredited ward which specialises in providing outstanding care for service users with eating disorders.
An exciting career opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic RMN/LD to join the STEPS Eating Disorders Inpatient Team as a Band 6 Charge Nurse on our 10 bedded standalone unit at Acer Unit, Blackberry Hill Hospital in Bristol.
You should have Substantial experience working as a Band 5 RMN/LD and have some experience or knowledge in working with the eating disorders client group. It is desirable that you are enthusiastic and motivated to work with eating disorders. You should be able to demonstrate effective leadership and management skills in a clinical area, providing clear clinical leadership to Staff Nurses and Support workers working on the ward.
Support will be given by the ward manager and we have brilliant supervision structures in place. Through this support there is the opportunity to develop specialist knowledge in eating disorders, and in your role as a Charge nurse.
For further information please contact: Julie Stott 01173784413
Main duties of the job
Shift co-ordination, Medication rounds, attending ward rounds and CPA meetings, meal and snack supervision = supporting patient to have meals. general observations, post meal and snack supervision.
Supporting patients in 1-1 sessions and keyworker sessions
Supporting junior staff and students
Supporting the leadership structure of the unit and attending training for Band 6 role and ward meetings.
Completing access assessment for admissions
Overseeing admissions and discharges
Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Scope & Range
§ As per the NMC Code, operational responsibility for the day-to-day clinical management of the Unit and the safe running of the shift, ensuring mechanisms are in place to support, develop and monitor all aspects of care and service delivery.
§ To take the role of Nurse in Charge on a rota bases as allocated.
§ Oversee and deliver clinical practice within the designated clinical areas, ensuring that high quality evidence-based nursing assessment, care planning, risk assessments, interventions and evaluations for patients is provided.
§ Being an accountable, candid and responsible point of contact and facilitator for clinical quality, collaboratively responsible for reporting, presenting and acting upon improvement actions (in accordance with internal, Care Quality Commission, Local Authority or Clinical Commissioning Group requirements).
§ Demonstrate competence in complex decision making, assessment and the management of clinical needs,
§ Monitor standards, conduct audits and lead innovative processes to improve quality and the operational management of the unit,
§ Ensuring the team works in accordance with organisational, regional and statutory guidelines, as well as best practice guidance as outlined in formal benchmarks or standards (e.g. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence etc.),
§ Mentor and teach as required with specific responsibility for the provision of leadership and clinical practice using a ‘just culture’, compassionate management and coaching approach as required to develop and maintain the skills required within a specialist environment.
§ To rotate and ensure others work with different service users to ensure maintenance of skills and to manage own wellbeing. Qualified staff are allocated as named nurse for a service user, however, are responsible each shift for the wellbeing of all of the service users.
2. Clinical Practice Leadership
§ Ability to administer medicine within relevant Trust and legislative guidance e.g. NMC Standards for Medicines Management 2010, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, MHA 1983.Ensure all others apply these, to support safe practice
§ Be a clinical Leader within the inpatient environment, responsible for the shift management and accountable for the quality of all clinical activity within the designated area working independently in the absence of senior management,
§ Confidential, sensitive and comprehensive, person-centered assessment of the full range of patient safety and wellbeing needs (includes risk, behavioural and mental state assessments),
§ Work with the team to ensure that every service user has a SMART, person-centred, evidence-based and holistic care and treatment plan ensuring service users are supported to reach the optimum level of independence and that robust processes are in place to keep such plans under continual review,
§ Work with the team to ensure that service users are able to take an active role in the assessment management and evaluation of their care and treatment plan, as well as all relevant risk and personal safety plans,
§ Empowering service are at the centre of their care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision-making. and promoting health and independence through awareness raising and care navigation to other professionals as appropriate,
§ As directed, setting and maintaining high standards for the ordering, storing, administering, disposal and recording of service user medicines, including all assessment, monitoring and response requirements related to it (this will be informed by relevant AWP Trust Policies and national standards set by NMC, NICE and the Mental Health Act (1983/2007)),
§ Support the team to establish, embed and maintain a sustainable programme of psychosocially-informed therapeutic engagement, affording service users opportunities for connection, interpersonal understanding and shared personal learning,
§ Support the team to offer individualised care and treatment interventions based service users’ care plans,
§ Embed, audit and maintain high standards for clinical record keeping (progress notes, care planning and the full range of service user assessments), actively support team members to meet and build on these standards,
§ Address concerns, supporting people to resolve problems and overcome barriers effectively,
§ Using own specialist skills and knowledge, act as a conduit and translator of corporate clinical guidance for the team, actively translating policy and protocol guidance into the clinical setting. Protecting time for clinicians to engage actively with Trust and national policy related to clinical care delivery and safety.
3. Communication & Relationships
§ Communicate with individuals, carers and other visitors in a courteous and helpful manner, whilst being mindful that there may be barriers to understanding,
§ Demonstrate those inter-personal skills that promote clarity, compassion, empathy, respect and trust,
§ Many of the service users will present with long-term and/or deteriorating conditions, which might result in distressing and emotional situations. The post holder will often be required to role model, lead and develop the team’s skills. Supporting the team when these demanding situations occur, utilising de-brief processes and other specialist support as required.
4. Culture of Reflective Learning, Development and Progression Objective
§ Embedding a reflective learning and development culture, in which team are encouraged to be curious, analytical and constructively critical in their work, providing regular advice and mentoring
§ Support students, preceptors and new employees on the unit, utilising mentoring and buddy skills to enable full integration and welcome to the unit
§ Ensuring team members have access to ongoing practice development activities in addition to their statutory and mandatory training – this may be in the form of formal learning programmes, or something more local / regional,
§ Recognize the ward’s function as an educational hub and center of learning for nurses, occupational therapists, medics, physiotherapists, support workers, nursing associates, paramedics and many more,
§ Lead by example, motivating and empowering others and promoting positive attitudes, mutual understanding and collaboration between service users, carers and colleagues,
§ Promote and embed a sustainable culture of continuing professional development and everyday learning by ensuring all team members have access to rigorous formative and restorative clinical supervision and practice development support,
§ Treat all feedback from any source (e.g. service users, carers, visiting professionals, CQC, CCG etc.) as an invitation to review and maintain high standards, supporting the clinical team to be actively engaged with improvement as a day-to-day activity (i.e. not only in response to formal feedback),
§ Work within the spirit of everyday learning, and recording / evidencing of development activity for practitioner revalidation,
§ Form strong professional relationships with colleagues both within and beyond the locality.
5. Finance, Workforce and People Management Objective
§ Manage resources to maximize the team’s ability to perform its core function of providing safe and effective patient care,
§ Oversee the management, completion of appropriate supervision, MAST and Appraisal for a small team. Cross covering for peers as required
§ Ensure that all nurses, for whom the post-holder is responsible, abide by all Trust and local policies and procedures, in particular, Health and Safety at Work, Security and Confidentiality to guarantee legal obligations are fulfilled.
§ Ensure the environment is clean, tidy, comfortable, safe and clinically appropriate, establishing and participating in robust environmental monitoring, reporting and improvement processes (including all aspects from hygiene, safety to clinical risk e.g. ligatures, blind spots etc.),
§ Contribute to reviews of staffing resource and skill mix, ensuring that service provision is both safe and therapeutic,
§ Develop/review staff rosters in line with AWP guidance utilising electronic rostering systems, and delegate the clinical and administrative elements of this appropriately,
§ Monitor, record and manage performance and conduct in accordance with Trust policy,
§ Participate in the relevant informal HR processes e.g. Health and wellbeing support, raising performance concerns, active participant in recruitment, onboarding, induction etc.
6. Other
§ Promote a positive and open culture which supports equality and values diversity and inclusion,
§ On occasions use moderate effort when undertaking manual handling and physical behavioural management adhering to best practice principles and utilising specialist training,
§ The ability to work in a flexible manner, both proactively and reactively to situations that arise on a daily basis is essential.
To overseas and gain assurance that induction programmes for new staff are provided to the standards required.
Person specification
Registration/Experience/Skills
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (Learning Disabilities, Mental Health or Adult) with current NMC registration
- Able to evidence thorough best practice assessment of service users needs; able to demonstrate appropriate plan for any risks posed.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate programmes of care and treatment, including the component activities and tasks within such programmes.
- Ability to receive and deliver a high standard of clinical and management supervision, performance appraisal, mentorship and supportive people management.
- Substantial post-registration clinical practice, and experience of managing / leading
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Stott
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0117 378 4413
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