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Lead for Quality and Innovation - RRP | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 08 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £58,972 - £68,525 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 August 2024 |
| Location: | Merseyside, L31 1HW |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6426189/350-TWS6426189 |
Summary
Are you a visionary leader ready to drive quality and innovation, with a focus on reducing restrictive practices?
Join our forward-thinking team and lead the charge in implementing transformative solutions. We seek candidates with demonstrable knowledge of the Equality and Human Rights Act and have experience in the delivery of clinical developments.
Shortlisting planned for: 23 July 2024
Interview planned for week commencing 5 August 2024
Applicants will be expected to deliver the below:
1. To provide strategic clinical leadership and innovation using the most up to date and evidence based theory and practice with a specific focus on innovative strategies to improve clinicalpracticeandimprovecommunityphysicalhealthpractices.
2. To support the Trust in the delivery of clinical quality improvement and innovation in relation to the key organisational priorities of theorganisation.
3. To provide leadership for the Trust for Reducing Restrictive Practices objectives
4. To deliver key outcomes on this portfolio to the Quality Account and executiveteam.
5. To contribute to quality improvement meetings or large-scale quality improvement programmes across theTrust
6. To offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, staff and otherprofessionals
7. To demonstrate advanced competence in highly complex decision making, assessment and the management of clinical needs within community and in-patient Services across the Trust.
8. To work in partnership with service users, carers and other practitioners to ensure effectiveness ofoutcomes
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
1. To work as lead for quality and innovation across theTrust
2. To formulate, implement and evaluate interventions which support the clinical pathway for patients and service users in theTrust.
3. To enhance service user experience by monitoring and developing service user feedback and engagement at ward and team level and across theTrust
4. Lead on the development and evaluate policies \ protocols for advancing practice in theTrust
5. To demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills within a defined area ofexpertise
6. To critically appraise, evaluate and apply knowledge of theoretical frameworks and research evidence within a specialist area ofpractice
7. To liaise and develop partnerships with other services / agencies asrequired
8. Evaluate practice through audit of service and practice standards, developing and managing strategies that address anyshortfalls.
9. Ensure the development and delivery of relevant training programmes, including the development of co produced programmes, for both staff and patient, reflect service need anddevelopment.
10. Ensure supervision and reflective practiced standards are adhered to and address shortfalls wherenecessary.
11. Ensure the PACE process is robust, ensuring systems are in place to address to ensure practitioners have the skills and capabilities to deliver high standards ofcare.
12. To provide verbal or written reports as requested by the Quality Account, the Perfect Care Leads meeting , Divisional leads andCommissioners
13. To identify areas for service development in the area of Reducing Restrictive practices
14. To ensure and support the ward based clinical leads in monitoring, auditing and developing clinical practice in line with the Trust Quality Improvement Plan and service development requirements.
15. To adhere to Trust Policies reporting to the Divisions senior management teams any failures in adherence to TrustPolicy
16. To contribute to the development of Trust Policies andGuidelines
17. To maintain the high standards in clinical expertise that this rolerequires
18. To maintain, monitor and present data relating to therestrictive practices
19. To be consistent and active in evaluating the effectiveness of therole
20. Ensure the development and promotion / clinical research in theTrust
21. Participate in clinical research as necessary whilst ensuring adherence to ethicalpractice
22. To participate in servicemeetings
23. To offer and participate in regular systematicsupervision
24. Establish priorities and organise workload to ensure effective use oftime
25. Ensure systematic records of treatment and progress are kept, and that written reports are provided for relevantreturns
26. Produce full evaluation of service and its impact on an annualbasis
27. Support Nurse Consultant and Divisional Senior Leadership Team in Secure Care Division in delivering required objectives and developing the strategy including involvement in clinical governance at a seniorlevel.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Jul 2024