Deputy ward manager

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Join us at an exciting time for Barnet, Haringey and Enfield Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. After three years working in Partnership, we are due to create a new Trust, to be known as the North London NHS Foundation Trust on 1 November 2024, subject to Secretary of State approval. Join us to be part of the North London Way as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high quality care across all our services
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We look forward to welcoming you to the new North London NHS Foundation Trust, where we work in the North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our new trust website is: Home | North London Mental Health Partnership

Job overview

Job overview

Are you an exceptional Registered Mental Health Nurse yearning to develop your existing skills in a diverse but supportive area as a deputy team lead?

Are you looking for a rewarding new challenge and can adapt to a busy, fast paced and unique environment?

Are you a driven, flexible and highly motivated RMN who is passionate about high quality care delivery?

If any or a combination of these statements define you, then this may be the right role crafted just for you!

In our Pursuit to improve clinical outcomes for a complex patient population, we are looking to recruit a high calibre and enthusiastic RMN to work as a deputy team lead within our Offender Care Service at HMP Pentonville.

Prison nursing is both challenging & rewarding, where no two days are the same! You will need a good understanding of both the needs and challenges facing patients with multiple needs in a secure setting. The variation ensures the environment is not monotonous, keeping tasks stimulating alongside the support needed to deliver the best care possible.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

The role will mostly involve working in a multi-disciplinary team of RMN,RGN, healthcare assistants and prison officer support workers in both mental and physical health. The Inpatients Unit is a 22 bedded healthcare ward that is divided into two. The two wards provide both mental and physical healthcare to offenders who cannot be appropriately cared for in the prison's ordinary wings. The unit usually works with an average of 18 patients with mental health needs and 4 with primary physical care problems (this varies with presenting needs).

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.

• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.

• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.

• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.

• Generous Annual Leave Allowance

• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.

• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts' values and cultural pillars:

• We are kind

• We are respectful

• We empower

• We are proudly diverse

In order to meet the needs of the new Partnership services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

MAIN TASK AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical Responsibilities

Act as primary nurse for a defined group of patients and liaises with the associate nurses to ensure a consistent approach to delivering care.

Assess plan, implement and evaluate the care provided especially with regard to identifying and managing risk.

Accept responsibility for the implementation of the Care Programme Approach with their primary patients.

Encourage patients to accept an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programmes.

Enter and maintain records using electronic and paper based systems.

Works in partnership with Healthcare Officers & other healthcare Depts to ensure that patient's needs are addressed, and to maximise the time out of cell and range of activities available for patients.

Treat prisoners and patients with fairness and respect, maintaining confidentiality appropriately.

Develop strategies for dealing with disturbed behaviour especially the ability to recognise and respond to signs of imminent disturbance.

Assist the inpatients manager and charge nurses in maintaining standards of care and participate in evaluation studies and projects as required.

To keep up to date with developments and research in mental health nursing and applies relevant to practice.

Participates in the running of therapeutic patients groups and provide a recovery focus approach to deliver care.

To be fully involved in presentations in ward rounds, handovers and other meetings where patient care is discussed and reviewed.

To expedite and participate in the assessment, admission, transfer and discharge of patients according to local guidelines and standards.

Ensure that as a nurse they understand the confidential nature of their work and their responsibilities as identified in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

To ensure the safe custody of drugs and that they are ordered and administered accordingly to Trust policies and the Misuse of Drugs Act.

To maintain an effective working knowledge of the administrative requirements and needs of patients detained under the Mental Health Act (1983).

To demonstrate specialist knowledge of the Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended by MHA 2007)

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered RMN

Desirable criteria

• ENb 998 or teaching equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working within a specialist area of mental health nursing
• Experience of promoting multidisciplinary team working within the team

Desirable criteria

• Experience of writing reports

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• detailed knowledge of Mental Health Act
• ability to implement policies and procedures, leading their implementation where appropriate

Desirable criteria

• able to evidence current and practice knowledge of clinical, managerial and policy issues related to the clinical speciality and the wider NHS

Skills

Essential criteria

• ability to organise and prioritise workload
• ability to effectively run the ward showing leadership and effective coordination

Desirable criteria

• ability to develop effective links with external agencies

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• DTL WWS (PDF, 440.4KB)
• Functional Requirements (PDF, 218.6KB)
• Applicant Information Pack (PDF, 1.6MB)