Lead Nurse

Change Grow Live (CGL) is one of the UKs leading health and social care charities and the Lead Nurse role is a varied one. You will be supporting people with multi-faceted issues related to the impact of substance use on their physical and mental health.

Nurses are an integral member of our multidisciplinary teams, offering specialist clinical interventions to people who use our services. Every person who comes into our service is treated as an individual, so understanding the importance of a whole person approach along with being curious, a good listener, a clinically robust practitioner and having a flexible approach are essential skills.

At CGL we want to support you to recognise and achieve your goals:

• We hold regular national nurse and HCA forums, and you will have regular 1:1s and appraisals
• We actively support our nurses to revalidate with protected continuing professional development time, which totals up to 6 days per year.
• We also have a wide range of educational opportunities including free access to the RCNi learning platform and we pay for your NMC fee
• We offer you the opportunity to use the government backed Apprenticeship Levy fund to develop nursing practice in line with your specific role
• All our staff are encouraged to take a wellbeing hour every week and access personal well
  -being resources

Demonstrate the skills of a motivated leader. Be enthusiastic, inspirational, creative and committed to leading the nursing team.

Demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance. Maintaining own continuous professional development by keeping up to date with clinical practice, national guidelines, and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into your work.

Provide clinical and managerial supervision to the nursing team.

Contribute to service development to ensure that all who use our services consistently receive high quality interventions that adhere to best practice guidelines.

Demonstrate excellent clinical skills. Monitor, audit and sustain best practice across the service.

Provide peer support to other lead nurses/cluster lead nurses in your region.

Being an integral member of the services senior leadership team. Informing and supporting with implementation of new clinical initiatives.

Support the services CQC registered manager to maintain compliance through assurance audits.

Work in partnership with stakeholders and promote Change Grow Live clinical service to commissioners and health & wellbeing boards alongside the services manager.

Attend, organise & chair (as required) clinical advisory groups, committees and partnership meetings to ensure appropriate representation of services.

Main purpose of the role

The Lead Nurse will form part of the senior management team within the service, working closely with the Service Manager and Lead Doctor to provide and develop high quality clinical service provision, with specific responsibility for Nursing Services.

Reporting and working relationships

The role will report directly to the Services manager, who will provide operational line management and supervision. All clinical supervision will be provided by the Regional Lead Nurse (RLN). The Lead Nurse will provide Clinical Supervision & operational line management to Nurses and HCAs within the Service. Reporting relationships may change

Clinical Practice

Assure that integrated pathways are in place for service users who require treatment for their health needs related to their addiction.

Ensure that the services clinical model is functioning, effective and in line with CGL policy and national guidance.

Implement/maintain an immunisation and vaccination scheme to help combat blood borne virus (BBV) and other infectious diseases and provide advice and information to other professionals on BBV and the care of individuals with drug and alcohol issues.

To ensure all programmes, i.e., immunisation programmes, are adequately staffed so that contractual requirements are always met.

Undertake regular CPD and create an environment that encourages your team to learn and develop.

Communication

Work in partnership with stakeholders and promote CGL clinical service to commissioners and health and wellbeing boards alongside the Services Manager.

Disseminate information to your team from the senior operational and clinical management teams.

Delivering a Quality Service

To be involved in clinical audit of the service under the direction of the RLN.

Contribute to the overall performance of the service to ensure that contractual output targets are achieved.

To ensure that all clinical services are delivered to a high standard in line with national guidance, CGL policies, procedures and best practice, and in line with CQC Essential Standards. Ensure that procedures are constantly reviewed to promote effective evidenced based practice.

Leadership

Work closely with HR to ensure the appropriate people and change management skills, knowledge and capabilities are in place within line management…