Deputy Ward Manager/Night Service Coordinator

Priory; Gainsborough CP; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Job description

Deputy Ward Manager/Night Service Coordinator

Reference: PRI99696

Location: Priory Hospital Lincolnshire, Dog Kennel Lane, Glentworth, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, DN21 5UD

Priory Group Division: Healthcare

Salary: £41,467.44

Hours: 37.5

Vacancy Type: Permanent - Full Time

Job Advert - Division Information
Providing quality, inspiring innovation and delivering value is what we set out to achieve at Priory Healthcare. Enabling our patients with mental health illness 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.

Job Advert Role Description
The role of the Night Service Coordinator is to provide senior nursing leadership to night staff in support of the Ward Manager. They will have clinical experience and leadership that provides expertise and confidence to the nursing team and ward overall. They will have defined delegated responsibilities from the Ward Manager, having 20% a week protected time for their management duties and have supervisory responsibilities for an agreed group of staff.

Responsibilities:

• Works as a Senior Nurse in a Ward or equivalent area ensuring a safe and therapeutic environment for patients, their families, and visitors.
• Apply relevant policies and statutory requirements within the ward and hospital framework of governance and communicates requirements to the wider team.
• Ensures that risk is assessed and managed across the immediate and wider working environment and that statutory requirements are met.
• Respects and applies the requirements of diversity and inclusion, promoting and role modelling these across the team.
• Identifies deficits in skill mix and safe staffing levels and acts to address these.
• Supervises a defined group of team members and contributes to their overall CPD, mandatory training and appraisal process recognising the skills required across the team. This will also include addressing any performance issues that are below the expected standard.
• Acts as a role model to promote a culture of learning development, inquiry and a team vision.
• Actively supports Junior Staff and student nurses on placement on the ward.
• Implements, monitors and evaluates therapeutic interventions within an overall care programme, enabling people with mental health and/or learning disability needs to develop coping strategies.
• Actively supports and contributes to effective Multi-Disciplinary Working.
• Engages in collaborative problem solving, supporting and encouraging clients to take ownership of issues, identify problems and to develop solutions to them based on their own needs and preferences.
• Contributes to the process of collaboratively assessing and citing on risk of harm, danger and abuse.
• Undertakes Lead roles for the ward, as agreed with the Ward Manager.
• Undertakes Clinical Audits, Hospital Walk rounds audits as directed by Management.

Skills and Experience:

• Qualified RMN or RNLD with at least 18 months - 2 years' experience post-registration.
• Active registration with the NMC, meeting the requirements of Revalidation.
• Trained Assessor/Supervisor.
• Clinical Supervision experience essential, training desirable.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development and intent to maintain and develop continued professional development leadership.
• The post-holder is one of the senior nurses in the ward and hospital. Within that is the requirement to demonstrate visible, positive leadership amongst the nursing team, and wider team of clinical and non-clinical colleagues.
• The post holder is required to have effective written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills, with an ability to adapt their style as appropriate to the environment they are communicating in.
• Demonstrate expertise within a clinical speciality.

About us
From education to hospitals, care homes and secure facilities, the Priory Group of Companies offers individually tailored, multidisciplinary treatment programmes for those with complex educational needs or requiring acute, long-term and respite mental healthcare. The integrated strength of each service provides a seamless transition for the individual as they progress between higher and lower dependency care and across services. This unique approach ensures that every individual has the opportunity to achieve the best possible outcomes and quality of life with the Priory Group.

Disclosure
All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer.