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Location
Enfield, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
Key clinical & operational responsibilities: Clinical:1. To provide expert clinical practice development around least restrictive practice, to advise on initiatives that have an evidence base or have been successfully trialled in other areas across the North London Mental Health Partnership or shared from other mental healthcare settings.2. To take a lead role in the development of the evidence base for improving patient safety focusing on different initiatives Reducing Restrictive Interventions, Ligature reduction and self harm reduction by use of quality improvement methodology and data analysis to measure the outcome and effectiveness of the practice development initiatives and sharing these findings with the local and wider networks.3. To lead on patient safety reviews4. To lead on developing across the North London Mental Health Partnership wide relationships with the police and other external agencies to develop a consistent approach to supporting staff where service users are prosecuted for acts of violence on staff or service users.5. To work directly with service users to co-produce patient safety initiatives across the whole Partnership6. To actively work directly with multi-professional care teams, offering expert advice and clinical consultancy for service users with high level of needs or complexities where staff and teams require additional expert advice or an independent opinion on the management plan, supporting across the North London Mental Health Partnership with documented co-produced and SMART care planning.7. To develop and maintain positive multi-agency and inter-professional relationships and networks both within the trust and national networks which influence and develop current systems of care delivery.8. Lead the delivery of education, training and development of nurses and other professionals across mental health services for the management of complex & difficult behaviour with strong relationships and liaison with the Nurse Education Team across the North London Mental Health Partnership. Management:1. To have a lead professional role for the strategic development of delivering reducing restrictive practices strategy for the Trust enhancing patient safety within teams and to manage the Patient Safety Team2. To ensure that staff within the Trust observe the requirements of Government legislation, NICE guidelines, Trust policies and local initiatives.3. Be responsible for developing protocols and standards4. Compile reports of activity on a regular basis. Professional Leadership and Consultancy:1. Provide expert clinical leadership and support in all matters relating to complex behaviour needs, patient safety, self harm reduction and restrictive interventions across mental health services.2. Lead and provide expert guidance to other practitioners in the coordination and management of complex packages of care and treatment for individual service users who present with high levels of behaviour that may impact patient safety.3. Lead on and contribute to local, regional and national policy developments.4. Act as a lead change agent to manage the overall change process in potentially highly complex and contentious situations of service and workforce development.5. To act as an expert Nurse Consultant across the North London Mental Health Partnership in mental health, specifically for challenging behaviour and restrictive interventions and advise the Trust in the development of new services and new ways of working.6. To act as a clinical expert and provide advice on standards for seclusion rooms, de-escalation rooms and sensory rooms, leading on major developmental projects.7. To develop and strengthen professional leadership across the North London Mental Health Partnership. Education, Training and Development:1. To provide educational leadership on prevention and management of challenging behaviour for practitioners; review training with internal and external providers, measuring the effectiveness of such programmes and developing where required.2. Focus on skills development such as, clinical risk, medication management, the use of psychosocial interventions, the prevention and management of challenging and aggressive behaviour, positive behaviour support and the development of person centred care and how and where is clearly documented across the Partnership.3. To collaborate with managers, service users, carers and other stakeholders in the development of training and education programmes.4. To actively support the engagement of service users in the delivery of training programmes.5. To contribute to the Partnership wide development and delivery of in-house training and development programmes, seminars and workshops relating to reducing restrictive practices across professional boundaries and agencies.6. To teach specialist interventions to large groups of staff across disciplines and with a range of knowledge and expertise. Practice and service development, research and evaluation:1. Lead on and co-ordinate the audit and research of restrictive practices, practice development initiatives (such as Safe Wards, positive behaviour support); contribute to evidence-based practice by publishing findings both locally and nationally.2. To contribute to the body of knowledge and develop nursing practice in the specialist area at a national level, through publications, conference presentations and participation in seminars.3. Actively participate in the audit and research of evidence based practice and use findings to improve the quality of care.4. To develop evaluation tools for the assessment of new developments, enhancing the evidence base for clinical practices5. To actively influence a shift in culture across the North London Mental Health Partnership reduce restrictive practice and enhance person centred care. 6. Support and supervise other colleagues in the implementation of research studies. 7. Act as a resource and facilitator for dissemination on expert practice.Organisational Structure OTHER RESPONSIBILITES: Expert Clinical Practice:1. 50% of the Nurse Consultants time will be committed to working with service users and staff, providing expert nursing intervention, advice and consultancy.2. To act as a role model demonstrating an expert level of professional skill, knowledge and competency, this is underpinned by theory gained by an advanced level of specialist training and academic study at a minimum of Masters Degree level.3. To work directly with multi-professional teams to assist in the management of service users with challenging behaviour, facilitation of complex case reviews and the immediate crisis management.4. To develop the range and diversity of therapeutic interventions available within the Trust, ensuring appropriate changes take place and ensuring sound governance.5. Provide expert clinical supervision and mentoring for staff working within clinical areas where required through supervised clinical practice and group reflective practice sessions across the North London Mental Health Partnership.6. To empower service users to influence the quality and direction of service development, to co-produce and deliver training.7. Establish and maintain relevant standards, policies, guidelines and protocols that advance nursing and multi-professional practice and promote and implement these across the North London Mental Health Partnership.8. To support and promote ethical decision making.9. To establish and develop proactive and positive relationships with professional leads across all care groups and clinical teams.10. Use the health and social care governance framework and resources to guide practice and assess, monitor and report clinical risk and develop strategies to manage these.
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£64.41k - £73.96k per annum
