Head of Nursing - Urgent Care
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
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Job overview
Are you an experienced mental health clinical leader, passionate about shaping high-quality community services? We are looking for a dynamic Head of Nursing. This is an exciting time to join, with great opportunities to influence developments and contribute to the evolution of our Urgent Care Pathway.
The post holder will be working closely with the Associate Director of Nursing and will be expected to demonstrate strong nursing leadership and provide highly specialist nursing advice. The post holder will provide professional leadership/support to senior clinicians and managers within the Trust to ensure robust arrangements are in place to support and promote clinical practice developments, this will be achieved through adopting co-production approach to changes and improvements within the organisation.
The post holder will be expected to provide support, guidance and represent the broad views of nurses within the services and will need to achieve a level of visibility that enables these goals to be met. The post holder will be expected to contribute to the development of and lead on the implementation of key aspects and the annual work plan of the nursing strategy.They will support the development of and lead the Nurse Advisory Group/Lead Professionals Group and participate in practice Safety and Quality forums and nursing forums across the Trust, as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will oversee our Crisis Home Treatment Team (CRHTT), Mental Health Liaison Team (MHLT), Psychiatric Clinical Decision Unit (PCDU), Place of Safety (POS), NHS111 and Liaison and Diversion (LIDI) providing strong nursing leadership, ensuring high standards of professional practice, and driving service improvement and innovation.
To be a proactive member of the Senior Management Team in the directorate who together ensure the effective delivery of all of its services. Provide strong visible nursing leadership within area of responsibility and specialist advice to staff working within all services within the Trust.Responsible for monitoring and improving the quality of care (nursing) within the services and provide specific and specialist advice on nursing issues. To develop and establish networks for the profession both within and outside the organisation.
To ensure representation of the nursing profession at forums within the organisation, and with other agencies and providers and take up the role of the Chair for meetings when required. To act responsively in providing additional advice and support to services and staff in circumstances such as the occurrence of adverse incidents.
Ensure that nursing, safety and quality are at the centre of service area planning, analysis and delivery through co-production and promoting continuous improvements.
Working for our organisation
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
Generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
Excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring and much more
Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars/vehicle, cycle to work, home and electronics, gym membership and much more
Discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
Wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
Staff networks and support groups
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If you are a confident leader with a passion for clinical excellence, service development, and empowering teams, we'd love to hear from you!
For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the role and requirements.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Nurse
- Experience in a senior nursing position
- Masters level or equivalent experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria- Ability to present complex information to a variety of audiences, verbally and in written reports
- Knowledge of IT, including Microsoft Office and Power Point
- Proven track record of achieving objectives
- Flexibility - adapts to ensure achievement of objectives within changing environment
- Excellent Clinical and Clinical Leadership skills
Experience
Essential criteria- Substantial Experience of managing people
- Experience of working in Urgent Care (Crisis Pathway) services
- Experience of developing policies and procedures
- Experience of managing change and associated behaviours
- Experience of managing resources including financial resources
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications regardless of age, gender, race, disability or sexual orientation. Guidance and criteria on the filtering criminal cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website.
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