Inpatient Nurse Team Leader

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced and growing organisation.

We are looking for a Nurse Team Leader to support our clinical provision of Residential Service across our Passmores House Service.

As Nurse Team Leader you will provide visible, effective clinical leadership to the nursing team in the service. Supported by the Medical Lead and in collaboration with the Area Director and Service Manager you will ensure the delivery of safe, effective, evidence based and compassionate care. This will include:

Providing line management and supervision of the nurses

Coordination and oversight of nursing activities

Lead on clinical governance and respond to internal and external audits and reviews

You will:

• be part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team that is delivering an excellent detoxification and rehabilitation service
• provide support to a group of people who use our service and work collaboratively with colleagues and other key stakeholders
• deliver evidence based, low threshold interventions and harm reduction advice
• through a variety of interventions, encourage individuals to develop external interests and build on their support networks and develop recovery capital to support community reintegration
• adopt an empathic and non-judgmental approach, as this role involves working with a wide range of challenging scenarios and behaviours
• demonstrate good time management and teamwork

About us

Who we are

At Via, our mission is to provide the best health and wellbeing support to as many people as possible, helping them to change their lives for the better.

Last year, we supported over 11,000 people across the UK affected by alcohol and drug use. Everything we do is driven by our values:

Care. Care for people is at the heart of everything we do.

Be human. We are accessible, genuine and humble. Always learning.

Do the right thing. We’re open, honest and inclusive. We get things done.

We want to recruit the very best talent. We believe in nurturing a positive workplace culture where our colleagues feel valued, recognised, empowered, and supported.

Inpatient Nurse Team Leader

Role

Purpose:

Be a key part of the leadership team, driving the delivery of excellent services, ensuring compliance with service contractual obligations, key performance indicators and responding to internal and external (e.g., CQC) audits and reviews. Lead, line manage and coordinate the inpatient nurse team. Take the lead in specific designated areas, supporting to deliver strategic and operational goals. Key duties and activities of the role include:

Provide leadership and management for the inpatient nurses, including regular supervision. Be responsible for the day-to-day nursing practice within the unit. Lead all aspects of clinical audit and regulatory reviews. Participate in Management Meetings to represent the views of the nursing team. Develop and deliver new ways of working to respond to the needs of our service users and the business.

Ensure the delivery of high standards of nursing care and support to service users as part of a multidisciplinary team. Oversee nursing practice within the unit, contributing to multi-disciplinary assessment, formulation and care planning, interventions and evaluations for clients. Oversee the formulation of comprehensive, person-centred assessments, risk assessments and treatment plans. Be a positive role model in providing an essential nurturing, warm, containing and stabilising human presence alongside the other clinical MDT members.

Oversee the safe administration of medicine within relevant organisational and legislative guidance (e.g., NMC Standards for Medicines Management 2010 and the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971). Oversee the ordering, storage, administration and disposal of medication in line with relevant trust and legislative guidance (e.g., NMC Standards for Medicines Management 2010, Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and MHA (1983)). Ensure that the storage and management of medication safety include weekly/monthly audits in line with the Via audit programme.

Have delegated responsibility and ensure a safe working environment, reporting all incidents or potential hazards. Adhere to and lead all unit staff to follow the Health and Safety policy and procedures. Attend MDT and occupancy meetings and provide nursing input ensuring all required clinical information is available and considered. Work with the consultant, clinic nurses and recovery practitioners to ensure the required documentation is available to inform the MDT.

Ensure all nursing staff adhere to the CQC standards and regulations at all times. Ensure that all IPC practices are fully embedded within the clinic in line with local and national policy. Ensure that all Via’s Policies and Procedures are adhered to at all times to ensure the highest standard of service provision to our service users. Lead and participate in untoward incident management investigations as required.

Comply with legal rules, statutory…