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Providing quality, inspiring innovation and delivering value is what we set out to achieve at Priory Healthcare. Enabling our patients with mental health difficulties to receive a truly integrated and holistic approach to their treatment, regardless of complexity or severity, thanks to the knowledge and expertise of our multidisciplinary clinical teams.
Partnerships in Care is one of the UK`s leading providers of independent specialist secure and step-down care across the UK.
With hospitals around the country, 30 years of experience in our sector and highly skilled and experienced teams, we help patients and commissioners find the right care pathways without the need for multiple reassessments.
The North London Clinic is looking for a Deputy Charge Nurse for its 15 bedded medium-secure unit to provide visible leadership and effective shift management to the nursing team, deputising in the absence of the Ward Manager.
The role:
As a Deputy Charge Nurse you will be working within a team that includes a range of professionals. You will be central to providing high quality care within a secure forensic setting, working with a patient group that consists of personality disordered and chronically mentally ill men.
Our Deputy Charge Nurse role involves:
- Adhering at all times to the NMC code of professional conduct
- Conducting a legal, ethical and accountable practice and remain open to the scrutiny of peers
- Respecting the rights of others` sensitivity and with regard to issues of equality and diversity
- Promoting and ensuring that each member of the team works to the standards of ethical practice
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation, government and local policy and best practice including the Mental Health Act, Clinical Governance and Standards for Better Health
- Ensuring adherence to health, safety and security legislation and policy
- Participating in maintaining the physical, relational and procedural security of the service to ensure the safety of all
- Recognising the value of effective communication and the potential for developing therapeutic relationships, effective teamwork, interdisciplinary working and customer care
- Utilising effective communication to develop professional therapeutic relationships, optimise patient engagement and facilitate interdisciplinary working
- Managing sensitive, highly complex and contentious communication, referring complex issues as appropriate
- Promoting a culture in which the assessment, planning and review of care plans are delivered effectively within the broader responsibilities of the Primary Nurse
- Monitoring and ensuring that all patients are actively involved in the process of care
- Acting as a Primary Nurse for a designated group of patients
- Ensuring all patients have a comprehensive evidence-based risk management plan
- Participating in and ensuring involvement in pre-admission assessment of referred patients
- Operating effectively as a team member
- Promoting effective decision making
- Acting as a mentor/preceptor and ensuring the development of junior nurses and other team members
- Encouraging and promoting innovation and imaginative problem solving
- Ensuring compliance with audit requirements and lead implementation of recommendations
- Ensuring compliance with legislative and professional standards
- Acting as a clinical supervisor and ensuring that all staff participate in clinical supervision
- Monitoring, evaluating and ensuring effective use of resources within set budgets
- Deputising in the absence of the Ward Manager
- Ensuring a commitment to the promotion and delivery of basic living skills within a forensic mental health care setting
- Participating in the delivery of evidence-based interdisciplinary programmes of care
- Supporting junior staff in their contribution to therapeutic interventions as agreed by the interdisciplinary team
- Managing medication as per hospital policy
- Contributing to health promotion within the ward environment
- Applying recognised therapeutic interventions e.g. CBT, DBT
- Engaging in and promoting continuous professional development within the team
Role requirements:
- Successful candidates must be RMN qualified
- Recognised mentorship certificate desirable
- Experience of working in a supervisory capacity
- Experience of secure environment
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