CNWL London Perinatal Service provide community perinatal mental health services in 5 boroughs, the Maternity-Trauma and Loss Care Service as well as Coombe Wood Mother and Baby Unit.

Coombe Wood is a highly regarded specialist perinatal service providing inpatient treatment and support for pregnant and postnatal women experiencing mental health and emotional difficulties. We support women/birthing people with their babies up to a year old. It is a 10 bedded unit commissioned by NHSE and we accept referrals from anywhere in the country though typically our admissions are from across London and the South East.

Our multi-disciplinary team consists of doctors, nurses, nursery nurses, therapists and support staff who are experienced specialists offering mental health treatment for mothers and support with infant care and development and encouraging the formation of lasting positive bonds.

As one of the Clinical Team Leaders within the team you will be supporting to lead the nursing team and working with the MDT to support woman/birthing people and new parents to best support their families needs in a holistic manner. Supporting linking in creating long-term support plans in the community on discharge. Support junior staff development, supporting management team in clinical audits to supporting with Service Quality Improvement. Escalating any children/adult safeguarding concerns and working with the ward and wider MDT to advocate for both Parent and Infants needs.

Main duties of the job

• Leading nursing team, shift co-ordination
• Collaborative care planning, working withing MDT
• Attending ward rounds and CPA meetings,
• Supporting patients in 1-1 sessions and advocating for their care needs
• Supporting junior staff and students
• Supporting the leadership structure of the unit
• Overseeing admissions and discharges, auditing clinical care - up-to-date care plans, risk assessments
• Understanding of child and adult safeguarding, escalating concerns and making referrals, working alongside social services and legal frameworks.
• Supporting mum's/birthing people and their babies in the crucial first year of life, through mental illness, developing their parent infant relationship and supporting with adjustment to parenthood.
• Knowledge of Infant Perinatal Health and how to identify within babies and how to support mum's/birthing people how to resolve/reduce risk of long-term impact for their babies.
• Leading by example with clinical documentation and concise effective handovers. Working with management teams on QI projects
• Supporting the service in leading the team be providing the best evidence based led practice, with a holistic approach.

About us

Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 6 Social Worker to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends family and carers and also other staff

As a Band 6 Clinical Team Lead we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others.

We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.

We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own.

We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work .

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead in organising and shift co-ordinating, planning ahead.
• Excellent communication skills, able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively.
• Speaking faceto face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legibleclinical records both electronic and handwritten
• Able to talk to people about sensitive issues in asupportive manner but also challenge others assertively where necessary
• Care planning: being able to assess patients,develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
• Understanding of recovery principles in MentalHealth.
• Empowering and working in partnership
• Understanding how the Mental Health Act impactson their work and the people they are working with
• Understanding the concept of quality and their rolein improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
• Medicines management and administration
• Knowledge and understanding of Perinatal Mental Health presentations and treatment.
• Awareness of the importance of Parent Infant Relationship, supporting and nurturing developing of these relationships and understanding of the demands of parenthood.
• Good knowledge of both Children and Adult Safeguarding, escalating concerns and making referrals. Having difficult conversations with mum/birthing people about concerns in their care and collaboratively care planing to support these.
• Awareness of managerial role and enthusiasm to learn new management skills
• Providing senior leadership to service out ofhours across the site.
• Experience of supervising junior members of team
• Work well with other members of the team including communicating effectively, being kind and considerate, reliable and enthusiastic
• Manage others and contribute to the management of the team
• Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind and hard working.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse Mental Health, Current/Live NMC PIN number Compliant with re-validation requirements
• Numeracy skills required for the safe administration of medicines
• Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
• Sign off mentor, Compliant with the new Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment (SSSA)

Desirable

• Mentorship qualification
• Conversant with Mental Capacity Act, Best Interest Assessments and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

Previous Experience

Essential

• Previous experience as a Band 5 nurse
• Previous supervisory and/or management experience is essential

Desirable

• Previous experience as a Band 6 nurse

Skills and knowledge

Essential

• Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face to face but also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
• Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
• Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
• Clinical Leadership: Working with Others

Desirable

• Expertise in particular skills and evidence of how you developed them and use them in your current role
• Experience of deputising for ward manager in their absence, to ensure standards are maintained.
• Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
• HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence
• Reviewing individual training records to ensure compliance with mandatory training

Employer details

Employer name

Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Coombe Wood Mother and Baby Unit

Acton Lane, London

Brent

NW10 7FL

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333-J-PERI-0150