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Job overview

We are looking for a passionate and committed nurse with experience at a senior level to join our MHSOP services. This post will offer applicants the opportunity to develop their clinical leadership working collaboratively across the collective leadership teams and closely with the Service Manager and wider senior leadership team. 

You will improve the lives of people with Dementia, mental ill health and/or learning disabilities by minimising the impact of their condition, through effective clinical leadership and management of the development and delivery of excellent services to promote recovery and wellbeing for all service users, including the implementation of standard work for leaders.

You will provide clinical oversight and overview where required, and ensure high quality and standards are adhered to. You will support the Service Manager and leadership team in care delivery. 

Main duties of the job

Promote professional nursing developments and address nursing issues within their area.

Accountable for the delivery of high quality nursing care across the community teams within the designated service area.

Responsible for the senior clinical leadership of nursing teams within the designated area, ensuring development and implementation of evidence based clinical practice within a therapeutic clinical environment, to ensure a recovery focussed, safe and effective service user experience.

 Acts as a role model for nursing staff in the designated clinical areas, demonstrating and promoting the Trust’s core values and behaviours

Communicates closely with and supports the Associate Director of Nursing to ensure professional nursing and educational issues are addressed, and information which supports the Associate Director of Nursing role within the management structure is available.

 Accountable for ensuring that the highest professional standards and attitudes towards the care of patients are maintained and delivered at all times in accordance with evidence based practice by all members of the nursing teams. Service Users have a range of mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities, may demonstrate behaviours that challenge and may have difficult family or social situations of relevance which require a skilled response, on which the matron will lead by example and set and maintain standards.

Working for our organisation

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Browse: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

Please provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).  Your current immigration status will not be considered as part of the shortlisting or interview process.

Please note that not everyone needs a ‘Skilled Worker’ visa. If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead.

We are able to offer sponsorship for a Health and Care Worker or Skilled Worker visa, subject to candidate and position eligibility. Please review the job eligibility guidance for skilled workers here: Skilled Worker visa: Your job - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and for the Health and Care Worker visa here: Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note: if the job you are applying for does not meet the eligibility criteria above, we will be unable to offer you sponsorship and you will need to explore whether you may be eligible to apply for an alternative immigration route which will secure your right to work in the UK before you apply.  If you are in the UK already on a visa please ensure you have no restrictions that would prevent you from taking this post.