Mental Health Clinical Lead Nurse Job Milton Keynes area,England UK,Healthcare

Responsibilities

The post holder holds overall responsibility for the full assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of care plans for each individual patient on the Prison Community Team caseload.
To role‑model team‑working and enable all colleagues to envisage a full multi‑disciplinary approach to patient care, ensuring flexible working within the boundaries of the prison regime.
To manage the multi‑disciplinary staff team, ensuring that all members are engaged in managerial & clinical supervision and that each member has a personal development plan.
To supervise junior staff and be able to teach qualified and unqualified staff, including students.
To foster and maintain the high standards of care.
To lead on aspects of clinical governance / care quality within the team.
To deputise in the absence of line manager.
To play an active part in the Healthcare Management Team.
Recognise that there is need for flexibility, working outside of normal working hours if required, including weekends.
To maintain own skills and knowledge to a high standard and ensure that this is reflected within the team.
To maintain service development requirements and successfully implement changes to meet these.
To ensure a high standard of individualised care for each client by facilitating a needs‑led service and the decisions made by the multi‑disciplinary team.
To act as clinical and managerial role model, demonstrating high standards of clinical practice.
To demonstrate a working knowledge of the key elements of relevant Mental Health legislation.
To ensure that the team is meeting requirements in relation to any particular mental health legislation, e.g. CPA, and that adequate monitoring systems are in place.
To take responsibility for a small caseload of clients, maintaining clinical skills.
To demonstrate a positive attitude to mental health, attending to patients with respect and dignity and have the ability to challenge staff where the standard falls below expectations.
To ensure that professional boundaries are always adhered to.
To keep up to date with issues and developments in nursing, the prison service and the wider NHS.
To keep abreast of new Policies, Guidance and Best Practice guidelines.
To actively participate in the Healthcare Care Quality Meetings and other appropriate meetings as agreed.
To maintain up to date accurate clinical records both written and electronic.
Assist the Mental Health Service Lead to improve data quality ensuring records meeting National Mental Health Minimum Data Set requirements.
To maintain accurate and prompt recording of accident and incident forms.
To ensure patients' records reflect appropriate care needs, are multi‑disciplinary and all documentation is completed according to CNWL and NMC standards.
To maintain appropriate service statistics.
Maintain accurate, timely paper and electronic records. Ensure they are kept safely in accordance with CNWL policies, including the Data Protection Act (1998) and the CNWL Confidentiality Policy.
To ensure effective use of Systm One and cNOMIS in record keeping and monitor the quality of data provided by junior staff.
To ensure that key local and national policies are implemented at a local level giving support to team members where necessary.
To lead and support the implementation of any new software application within the team. To ensure staff are adequately prepared and supported throughout the process and that good links are established throughout the process.
To support staff throughout any change process and to allow minimal disruption to patient care delivery. To ensure all staff receive information related to change.
To lead on specific care quality initiatives, within the team and service wide.
To become involved in forums other than health to promote closer working practices in order to meet patient and carer needs.
To participate in the planning and implementation of clinical audits in the area and ensure that standards of good practice are met by all staff.
To provide a forum to allow effective communication to take place - both for clinical and non‑clinical issues.
To take initiative in developing the service,…


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