Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £41,957 – £50,387 Incl 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata
Partner Org: Surrey and Borders Foundation Trust Partnership
Job overview
Band 6 – Clinical Lead – Full Time
Exciting Opportunity
Farnham Road Hospital comprises two adult inpatient wards and a PICU service within a modern, purpose-built mental health facility. The hospital provides 42 inpatient beds, all with single en-suite bedrooms, comfortable lounge areas, and dedicated ward gardens, alongside established outdoor spaces for supervised walks and therapeutic activities.
For staff working within the service, the site offers access to kitchenettes and café facilities, with excellent transport links, including nearby train services.
This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity to become part of an established and experienced service committed to delivering excellent care to our patients within a high-quality therapeutic environment. You will work alongside experienced, knowledgeable, and dedicated colleagues as part of a multidisciplinary team.
As a service, we are continuing to develop new ways of working and are looking for motivated individuals who want to contribute to delivering effective assessment, treatment, and high-quality care for our patients. This role offers the opportunity to further develop leadership skills while supporting both patient care and the wider clinical team within an inpatient setting.
Main duties of the job
- Assist the Ward Manager in ensuring that defined roles and responsibilities are coordinated within the team on a continuous basis.
- Support the Ward Manager to ensure that the team nursing system operates effectively.
- Ensure, in co-operation with the Ward Manager, that risk assessments, care plans are regularly reviewed, appropriately modified, and updated.
- Provide professional nursing advice to other team staff and other professionals.
- Provide management support to staff through appraisal, supervision and continuing professional development.
You will be working in an organisation that fosters an inclusive culture, where we will treat each other with compassion and kindness. You will be able to grow your career here and we have dedicated pathways to enable you to do this. We will support your personal and professional growth through our extensive training opportunities.
We strive to offer a great work life balance – if you are looking for full time, part time or flexible options, we will try to make this work where operationally possible. We are committed to the health and well-being of our employees to create a positive work-life balance, along with a broad range of benefits. Our values are at the heart of what we do, and they shape the way we interact, develop our colleagues, and celebrate success.
Working for our organisation
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
Please note that this post does not attract Certificate of Sponsorship
Working from home contracts do not attract high cost area payments.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a full breakdown of the Job Role and Responsibilities please find the Job Description attached to this job listing.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RMN Diploma/Degree/Masters
- Registration with NMC as RMN
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post qualification experience working with people within a mental health setting i.e. acute inpatient ward/forensic or HBPoS.
- Experience of coordinating shifts and providing clinical leadership
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership Training
We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.
As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, 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 any other flexible working patterns.
Gender Pay Gap Action
Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.
Sponsorship
Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Application numbers
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