Description
An exciting opportunity is available for a new position as a Clinical Nursing Lead within the Young People's Home Treatment Team (YPHTT) at North East London Foundation Trust. The post holder will be an NMC registered nurse who provides clinical leadership to YPHTT by ensuring the appropriate assessment, management, and discharge of all referrals to the team, overseeing the work of the clinical team alongside the MDT.
The post holder will ensure all clinical work in the service is carried out to the highest care standards and according to national clinical guidance and evidence-based practice; thereby being professionally and legally accountable. The post holder will be required to cover the core service hours of 8am-8pm, Monday to Friday with an additional expectation to work out of hours, 9am-5pm at weekends to ensure timely, out of hours assessments and clinical leadership across the acute children and young people's services including Brookside inpatient and Psychiatric Liaison Team.
Main duties of the job
- Provide a comprehensive Young People's Home Treatment team, ensuring safe and effective delivery of service and performing to required KPIs, particularly in assisting young people to develop plans of care and make difficult decisions in cases where young people are exhibiting complex psychosocial needs and/or challenging behaviors.
- Be responsible for the development and implementation of high standards of clinical care ensuring the service provided is needs-led, compliant with national guidance and is viewed positively by service users.
- Undertake comprehensive clinical assessments of service users, including risk assessment, risk management planning, formulation, and ongoing care planning, signposting or onward referral.
- Ensure that staff members are undertaking the same, doing so through formal and informal supervision, appraisal, and regular clinical discussion.
- Lead on and facilitate regular clinical reviews with the team for those Children on a designated clinical pathway.
- Organise and prioritise own and others' workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.
- Delegate clinical and other tasks appropriately to team members.
- Deputise at the request of or when required in the Manager's absence.
- Teach other nursing and non-nursing staff, both in formal and informal settings.
Benefits
- The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities.
- We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients.
- We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation.
Values
- We are kind.
- We are respectful.
- We work together with our communities.