Our clients are urgently seeking to recruit a
Locum Band 7 Community Psychiatric Nurse to join their Drug & Alcohol Team.
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm
Job Purpose:
To undertake clinical and management responsibility for a team of nurses and recovery workers. The post holder will have an operational overview on the day to day running of the service. This will include ensuring the service is safe and effective, delivers on all performance targets and achieves positive outcomes with clients. The Senior NMP will operate as a member of the management team overseeing the ongoing development of recovery focused and evidence-based interventions for service users across the team. Many of our services users are hard-to-reach as they struggle with multiple complex physical and psychological needs, some of whom require rapid safe prescribing. It is vital that the post holder has effective assessment, prescribing and leadership skills, can implement and manage change, has a proactive approach to communication and is skilled in developing links and maintaining partnership arrangements with other services across the borough.
Services are provided by a multi-disciplinary team comprising of Consultants, Doctors, Nurses, Psychologists, Recovery Workers, Peer Mentors and Volunteers.
Key Responsibilities:
To provide strong and decisive leadership and management of all staff within the team. To manage the staff team and all day-to-day prescribing issues of the service. To take the lead role in the induction, training and retention of staff. To deputise at designated times in the absence of the Borough Lead.
To ensure regular clinical and line management supervision, appraisal (personal development plans) and teaching of staff across the team to ensure high standard of client care. To identify and support opportunities for staff development and training, and to support this aim use role modelling to motivate and educate the team. To facilitate and manage change whilst maintaining a high quality effective service.
To take responsibility for the management of a defined caseload of clients with complex needs and facilitation of nurse led clinics or other elements of front line service delivery where required. To deliver nurse specific interventions such as vaccinations and where appropriately qualified deliver non-medical prescribing within scope of practice and Trust guidelines for alcohol and drug clients attending the service.
To ensure service information requirements are met through the production of required statistics and data and ensuring this remains a priority. Ensure timely inputting of information by team members so as to support effective Trust, local commissioning and national reporting requirements.
Undertaking of regular audits to ensure that all clinical records/ practice is of a high quality and in line with CAG, Trust, CQC standards and national polices/ guidance such as safeguarding adults and children, PHE recommendations and NICE guidance.
To actively promote and encourage service user and carer involvement in the service.
To draft/ review/ evaluate clinical protocols / operational procedures as required, to ensure the service is responsive to changes in practice, trends in substance use and legislation.
To manage human resources issues to optimum effect including being involved in and leading on staff recruitment and selection process, performance management, sickness management etc. as required.
To have knowledge and awareness of expenditure in relation to budget and prescribing costs, identifying and reporting on cost pressures where appropriate.
With the Borough Lead's support and direction, identify appropriate areas of development in collaboration with other partnership colleagues. To continually consider how the service could be developed to meet the needs of this client group and review the Service Contract/ emerging strategies as appropriate and make recommendations. To develop and maintain effective links and lines of communication with partnership agencies, Trust departments, commissioners, CCG and other local stakeholders.
To ensure effective investigation of complaints and serious untoward incidents in consultation with the Borough Lead / Consultant Psychiatrist/Psychologist and other appropriate staff, and to identify systems learning as a result of such investigations and implement changes as appropriate.