Any exciting opportunity has developed for a motivated nurse leader to join the Secure Services and Recovery Division within Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Service Group of SBUHB. The successful Lead Nurse will report directly to the Head of Nursing and will be responsible for defined clinical areas within the Division.

The quality of the Health Boards clinical care and the safety of its patients are fundamental to its excellence and the Lead Nurse will be responsible for ensuring the consistent delivery of evidence based, safe and effective nursing care, infection prevention safeguarding and patient flow standards within their defined area of responsibility.

The role will involve providing direct operational, and professional leadership to the ward/unit and team managers across the Rehabilitation and Recovery Directorate to ensure the delivery appropriate delivery and implementation of the nursing care standards, embedding and assuring the quality strategy via person-centred approaches to care, to deliver on the nursing prioritises to meet the care needs of its service users and their families/carers.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is expected to work with autonomy to provide highly specialised professional nursing advice to colleagues to ensure high standards of direct care delivery. This includes supporting systems for professional revalidation and performance management of ward/unit and team managers that are accountable for quality, safe care.

The post holder will provide direct professional nursing leadership in line with the NMC Code of practice and SBU HB's values and behaviour framework of caring for each other, working together and always improving.

The Lead Nurse for Rehabilitation and Recovery Directorate will join a team of Lead Nurses and Service managers that work together to deliver the Professional Nursing agenda for the MH& LD service group.

The Rehabilitation and Recovery Directorate provides a range of evidence-based treatments and therapies which are delivered via a multi-disciplinary team approach in collaboration with the people who access our services.

We are seeking an individual with excellent leadership skills to support and enable professional and service developments across multiple services within the Directorate and across the division to deliver high quality services to the people in receipt of our services, including: low secure, locked rehabilitation, open rehabilitation, Community Forensic Nursing, Police Custody Liaison, prison in reach and Offender Management Pathway and their families/carers.

About us

We believe staff are our best asset and wewant you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.

As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.

You might be a nurse ordoctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - wehave a job for you.

There are also apprenticeships, work placementsand volunteering roles available.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex religion or belief race age sexual orientation gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership or, whether they are disabled.

Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show thatour commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.

If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery,with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse Level 1 (Active NMC Registration)
• Recognised management qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Educated to Degree level
• Masters in relevant health related
• Improving Quality Together (IQT Bronze)

Desirable

• Improving Quality Together (IQT Silver)

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of Safeguarding Adults/Children including the Mental Health Act and Mental
• Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
• Knowledge of quality and service improvement methodologies
• Knowledge and understanding of current policy and issues in professional pratice, complaince, standards and the wider NHS

Experience

Essential

• Experience of staff and service management
• Experience of budgetary management
• Experience of managing change

Desirable

• Experience of leading service improvement/change

Skills & Values

Essential

• Person Centred Care: Demonstrates in everyday work, organisational values and role models person centred approaches to care.
• Team Working: ability to develop effective working relationships on an individual and multi-disciplinary basis with all levels of staff take time to listen, understand and involve people, receptive to appropriate change. Effective communication skills: ability to
• Effective communication skills: ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, clinical staff and other agencies. Communicate openly and honestly and explain things clearly.
• Empathy and sensitivity: ability to listen, understand and involve people see people as individuals and do the right thing for every person.
• Leadership: ability to take responsibility and demonstrate leadership. Demonstrates ability to: empower others lead through change influencing skills demonstrate patience and empathy value everybody's contribution demonstrate innovation and highly complex problem solving abilities
• Coping with pressure: highly resilient with the ability to work effectively under pressure and cope with setbacks ability to maintain composure and set high standards of behaviour when under pressure
• Service Improvement: ability and drive to use information and experience to improve the service ability to adapt and respond to changing circumstances to improve patient care. Positive attitude, seek out learning, and continually develop our skills and services.
• Organisation and Planning: ability to cope with effectively managing and organising a wide range of complex services throughout areas of responsibility ensuring clear and unequivocal focus on quality and safety.
• Problem Solving: evidence of an enquiring and critical approach to solving work problems. Ability to analyse highly complex facts and use judgment in situations where there is no precedent and creative and original thinking is required.
• Information Technology: IT skills & experience in the use of software.

Desirable

• Ability to speak Welsh
• European Computer Driving License

Other

Essential

• Able to travel across the HB as part of role and attending meetings
• Participate in the hospital on-call rota
• Works flexibly over a 24/7, 7 day working model

Employer details

Employer name

Swansea Bay University Health Board

Address

Taith Newydd/Cefn Coed Hospital

Bryn Derwen

Swansea

SA2 0GH

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130-NMR304-0924