Lead Nurse (Low Secure Unit)

Job overview

Are you a passionate and motivated nurse leader? We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Lead Nurse within our forensic, low secure, and rehabilitation service at Kingsway Hospital, Derby.

Could you help to strengthen our leadership team, inspire colleagues, and help shape the future of our service?

You'll be part of a strong and supportive team based on a 20-bed unit across two wards - Curzon and Scarsdale, providing 24-hour inpatient nursing support at Kedleston.

Our service supports adults with severe and enduring mental illness, often with a forensic or risk history, who need longer term assessment, treatment, and stabilisation before transitioning back into the community.

In this role, you'll:

• Provide visible clinical leadership and support.
• Champion high quality, evidence based care.
• Supervise and guide colleagues across the wider multi disciplinary team.
• Contribute to a service built on hope, compassion, and recovery focused practice.

We're proud of our commitment to least restrictive practice and our dedication to creating an environment where service users feel valued and empowered to achieve their personal goals.

This is a rewarding and dynamic leadership role where you'll join a team that truly cares and have the chance to make a real difference.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Work with the team, driving change and offering assurance that our care meets the standards not only expected of us, but that our patients, relatives and carers deserve.
• Be responsible for establishing operational and clinical service mechanisms that support safe and high quality care throughout the twenty four hour period.
• Have opportunities to take the lead on new developments and will be responsible for ensuring that local and national standards and targets are met.
• Be responsible for ensuring that the clinical team operates within established legal and operational protocols and that robust clinical rationales exist for planned and delivered interventions.
• Work effectively within a multi disciplinary setting and will ensure that effective co ordination exists and is maintained, between the various stakeholders involved.
• Be part of our bleep holder role on a rota basis, which lends itself to bed management, and support of the Kingsway Campus.
• Deputise for the Senior Nurses where needed.

This post is full time and will involve working shifts, late and early shifts with occasional weekends, bank holidays and at times possible 9 5 shifts on weekdays.

Working for our organisation

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities

Person specification Education / Qualifications

• Educated to Diploma Level (i.e. Dip HE Nursing) or Degree Level
• Evidence of up to date Personal Development Plan Professional Portfolio
• Experience in mentoring and supervising staff
• Experience working with families and carers

Experience / Skills

• Post registration clinical expertise that will include core competencies around NMC Nurse Competencies
• Demonstrate the ability to co ordinate and lead multi professional teams
• Demonstrate knowledge and expertise of CPA/Risk Assessment and Management Skills
• Demonstrate the ability to lead the clinical team in a service user / career focused way
• Demonstrate exposure to and a comprehensive knowledge of Clinical Governance in action (audit, research clinical effectiveness etc)
• Demonstrate knowledge of legal and ethical issues relating to clinical practice, including policy and procedure development
• Demonstrate an understanding of work based legislation
• Experience of working in secure and/or rehabilitation settings

Additional Information Flexible Working

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for our service and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

Disability Confident Employer

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you in the recruitment process please let us know.

DBS Checks

The cost of undertaking a DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) disclosure will be met by the individual. The Trust will meet the initial costs of the disclosure which will be deducted from your first month's salary.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.