Assistant Clinical Lead Steeton Job Bristol England UK,Healthcare

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity within the acute older peoples Inpatient Mental Health Services for an Assistant Clinical Lead on Bracken Ward at Airedale Centre for Mental Health.

We are looking for someone who is prepared to lead creatively, committed to improving patient and family and carer experience, and who will lead and motivate the team to strive for continuous improvement through the development of pathways with across Mental Health Services and with partner organisations in the acute care, voluntary and community sectors.

Areas of focus will include creating a safe and caring culture, quality and safety agendas, safer staffing, meeting key performance indicators, roster management, lessons learnt and enabling development of the team.

Main duties of the job

To demonstrate a high standard of care to patients and contribute to a safe and developing culture.
To provide clinical expertise and guidance to inpatient ward staff.
To ensure the service meets guidance and quality standards set locally, regionally, and nationally.
To ensure high standards of documentation, care planning and risk assessments are met and maintained.
To provide relevant training and education as required/requested by the service.
To contribute to data collection and analysis locally and regionally
To be an integral part of the senior team.
To support the team in meeting quality standards, implementing policy, managing change, and delivering innovation
To monitor and analyse care provision through audits, reviews and engagement and provide leadership on maintaining and improving standards.
To administer medication in line with Trust policy and NMC guidelines
To maintain clinical record systems as required.
To comply with the correct implementation of the Mental Health Act.

About us

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:

We Care

We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen

We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver

We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for >4500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plusmany more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported toparticipatein training and toidentifyand implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Job responsibilities

Please read the attached Job description and person specification for further details about this role.

Right to Work in the UK

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status.

Regrettably, if the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trusts eligibility criteria, the Trust are unable…