Clinical Team Leader - Lavender Walk
Job overview
Welcome to CNWL Mental Health Inpatient Services for Children and Young People. Lavender Walk is an inpatient unit looking after children and young people aged 13 -18. We are looking to recruit Clinical Team Leaders from all nursing backgrounds to broaden and develop the experience and skill mix available to young people at Lavender Walk.
We need innovative, dynamic people interested in developing their leadership skills in a supportive and highly skilled team. There will be opportunities to develop your therapeutic skills with our psychology, family therapy and occupational therapy leads.
Set in the heart of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Lavender Walk is a Tier 4 Adolescent Unit which aims to provide a comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and treatment package, for young people with mental health conditions whose level of need can no longer be met safely in the community.We work in a collaboratively with the patients, their family and carers, and local voluntary services.
We appreciate that not everyone has provided care for young people, but if you’re a Registered Paediatric, General, Mental Health or Learning Disabilities Nurse, with experience of working on a ward, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
We’re passionate about young people’s mental health outcomes, and strive to deliver first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care. Here at Lavender Walk you will be supporting young people to build a resilience, better coping strategies and healthy relationships.
Who are we?
The team consists of two consultant child and adolescent psychiatrists, junior doctors, nurses, psychologists, occupational therapists, family therapists, support workers, a ward manager and matron. We also have a fantastic on-site school with an outstanding team of teachers and visiting tutors for music, art therapy and drama therapy.
What do we do?
We work closely with young people and their families to understand their problems, provide a comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, formulation and treatment plan to allow for them to return to their homes safely as quickly as possible. We treat a wide variety of psychiatric illnesses such as psychosis, mania, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and post traumatic stress disorder.We don’t currently treat young people with primary eating disorders or those requiring naso-gastric tubes.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Working for our organisation
CNWL have a pioneering history improving health outcomes in people’s lives, by providing physical and mental health services at GPs, clinics, hospitals, and in the community. To find out more about CAMHS inpatients please CLICK HERE.
We understand that staff are the heartbeat of our organisation, and offer substantial range of benefits locally, in addition to the standard NHS discounts.
For inpatient Nurses we offer a relocation scheme of up to £8,000 to any qualified Nurse in the UK moving to London. We have several providers who support with finding key worker rental properties at 80% Market Rent. You’ll have direct liaison with our Professional Nurse Educator to develop your career.You'll receive monthly supervision to support bespoke training, development offers, and our leadership and development programme, see the “Staff rewards and wellbeing handbook” for more details.
Staff are the heartbeat of our organisation and we offer Inpatient Nurses a £2,000 Post Probation Bonus, followed by £1,000 paid 12 months later
We take flexible working seriously, and will always be open to discussion to meet our workforces competing work life demands.
Our base is in the Chelsea area, next to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. Thanks to the heavy NHS influence many local cafes, restaurants and bars give discounts at 10-20% to all NHS staff. As well as Better Gym offering a 50% discount to all staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification
Typical tasks for this role?- To support the ward manager in leading day-to-day running of the ward.
- To lead on nursing feedback in ward round and other professional meetings
- To take on the Primary Nurse role for individual young people.
- To assist in the development of junior staff and act as a role model to them.
- To ensure the provision of excellent, evidence-based nursing care for the children, young people (CYP) and their families at all times.
- To put children, young people, their families and carers at the centre of everything we do.
- To ensure the provision of a welcoming, caring, clean and safe environment for the CYP and their families.
- Recognising escalation in behaviour or shift in ward dynamics and proactively address this with staff or young people.
- Monitoring observations and ensuring safe practice and act appropriately and in line with unit procedure.
- Supervising junior staff and students to ensure the delivery of safe and effective care.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications:
Essential criteria- Registered Mental Health Nurse at degree or diploma level.
- NMC Registered Nurse (Child) (or Registered Nurse) relevant to area of practice CAMHS Mental Health
- Degree level qualification
- NVQ D32/33 Assessors course
Experience/Skills
Essential criteria- Teaching, supervision and managerial experience of coordinating and managing patient care
- Knowledge of mental disorder, child development, mental health law and legislation and the nursing process
- Understanding of professional and current issues in children’s and mental health nursing.
- Understanding of resource management, health and safety, clinical risk and quality issues
- Handling safeguarding issues according to Trust policies and procedures
- Understating or evidence of fulfilling PREP requirements for Revalidation Awareness of equality and diversity
- Experience of working in a mental health setting postregistration
- Basic counselling skills
Special Aptitudes/Abilities:
Essential criteria- Demonstrates an understanding of and empathy to the needs of children & young people
- Ability to effectively communicate with children, young people and their parents
- Ability to effectively communicate with other professionals, in person and on the phone
- Basic understanding of budget and resource management
- Ability to understand and work with challenging behaviour
Personal Characteristics:
Essential criteria- A genuine interest in working within this specialism.
- A good level of fitness and mobility
- Shows evidence of common sense, tolerance and empathy
- Shows a mature, accepting warm attitude
- Demonstrates professionalism (in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct) and good interpersonal relationships at all times.
CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.
Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference.We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.
We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page
Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.
CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.
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