Clinical Lead

Job Overview

Are you a registered mental health nurse? Do you have a passion for excellent care? Are you excited by service improvement? Do you strive towards continued personal development? If the answer is yes, then we want to hear from you.

We have a very exciting opportunity for a clinical lead on our Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Our PICU is a 10 bed ward based in Hull, within the same building as our adult admission unit and adult crisis team, close to the general hospital. We offer 3 female beds and 7 male beds within one setting all under the care of an experienced and skilled MDT including psychiatry, nursing, occupational therapy, allied health professionals and psychology.

It is a great time to be joining Humber PICU – we have commenced the Quality Network of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (QNPICU) developmental membership, this is an exciting opportunity for you to be part of leading Quality improvement with the team through this process to achieve Accreditation, which is a mark of assurance of the quality Standards our Unit provides.

Main duties of the job

The service is looking for an enthusiastic individual with acute mental health leadership experience, to enhance and deliver the work being undertaken to optimise the Trust’s acute / unplanned pathway.

We’re looking for a talented and knowledgeable registered professional who is highly motivated with an excellent work ethos to join our friendly and supportive team.

In return we offer excellent development opportunities, and access to wider peer support.

There is an expectation that you will provide senior B7 duty cover on a Saturday, Sunday and BH Mondays to the wider unplanned adult and older adult inpatient services. This currently works out at 1 in every 15 weekend – so around 4 weekends a year – you would take your days off in the week. This is supported by the weekend MDT, covering all inpatients for emergency MDT discussions, which would be led by the B7 on duty and an inpatient RC / AC (also on a rota).

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Person specification

Qualifications And Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area
• Be a member of a recognised professional body and hold a current professional registration
• An accredited leadership qualification or be able to demonstrate advanced leadership and management skills; motivation, team building, developing positive interpersonal relationships, negotiation, conflict resolution, problem solving, managing change, being creative
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Specialist/advanced understanding/application of relevant managerial and leadership aspects of the service area
• A breadth of clinical and professional practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
  
  

Skills And Requirements

Essential criteria

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring and teaching
• Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
  
  

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.