Clinical Team Leader

Job Overview

Are you looking to work for a team that will make you feel empowered and proud to be a Nurse? To work in an environment that will allow you to develop and flourish as a practitioner? Then the healthy ageing team at Northwick Park Hospital might just have what you’re looking for. We are looking for Registered Mental Health Nurses who are looking for a new challenge to take on the role of Clinical Team Leader on Ellington Ward.

As a Clinical Team Leader you will form an integral part of the MDT and be responsible for supporting the Ward manager to lead a dedicated team of registered and unregistered staff by having an active role in developing, monitoring and maintaining care standards; through role modelling, clear decision making and demonstrating your highly developed clinical skills.

Main duties of the job

In addition to this we want to offer you;

• Flexible shift patterns to provide a healthy work-life balance; 37.5 hours a week as long days and some nights, or a combination of early, late, long day and night shifts.
• Commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development including opportunities such as CBT, DBT, ECG and venepuncture training.
• An opportunity to work with an award-winning team who prides itself on continuous innovations
• To work with a manager who is passionate about staff, their wellbeing and their development; you will be well supported!
• Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme.
• The successful candidate will be a leader on the ward, including managerial elements such as roster and staffing management.
• This role also includes shifts working within the ECT suite within the mental health centre at Northwick Park. You will be expected to spend a proportion of your shifts working in ECT recovery or reception, and to undertake any training necessary for this role.
• The position will also involve unit coordination. (Training will be provided).

Working for our organisation

Working at Northwick Park will provide you with the following;

• Working around our Safety Pledge to reduce restrictive interventions
• Innovative Trauma Informed staff training program including practise of Team Formulation
• Implementing Sensory modulation into the care pathway
• Coaching and development sessions including; wound care treatment, forms of dementia treatment, Mental State Examination skill sessions, administering ACE assessments
• On-site shadowing opportunities for you with our HTT, CMHT, Psych Liaison services
• Commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development including opportunities such as CBT, DBT, ECG and venepuncture training
• Flexible shift working hours to provide a healthy work-life balance
• Training package (inc sponsorship for post-graduate studies up to masters)
• Hidden Gem, annual award ceremonies and award-winning Staff Networks that have thousands of members and exciting events.
• Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme.

Ellington ward is an older adult inpatient mental health unit based at Northwick Park Hospital. We work closely with the ECT suite next door, which provides ECT to both NHS and private clients.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details.

Key responsibilities include running ward shifts and ensuring appropriate staffing levels, providing clinical and managerial supervision to nurses and HCAs, assisting with managerial tasks such as interviewing, roster management.

Regular nursing tasks such as engaging in therapeutic interactions with service users, medication administration.

Helping to maintain high ward standards, including regular auditing, incident investigation, and opportunities for quality improvement projects.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Mental Health Nurse
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development

Desirable criteria

• Practice assessor/ supervisor training completed, completion of preceptorship
• Completion of medication competency assessment

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience working as a Band 5 nurse in Older Adult Inpatient Mental Health Services
• Unit coordinating experience or willingness to learn.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Communication: Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in a supportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
• IT Skills: Able to maintain electronic patient records Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing
• Nursing Skills - Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
• Safeguarding and advocacy - Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with
• Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
• Assess risk and be able to suggest risk management strategies that embrace principles of positive risk taking
• Infection control and Asceptic Non Touch Technique
• Clinical Leadership: Working with Others
• Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
• Coordinate work allocation and shifts using healthroster
• Mentor, teach and support others in the team
• Supervise others in the team
• Facilitate appraisals

Desirable criteria

• Supervision, Line management and appraisal training HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence, healthroster

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential criteria

• Be a role model and embody CNWL’s values by being Caring, Respectful, Empowering and working in Partnership.
• Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated. Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which
• Empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
• Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals