Specialist Nurse Team Manager
| Posting date: | 22 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 May 2025 |
| Location: | Plymouth, PL4 7PY |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | B9832-2025-NM-9669 |
Summary
Responsibility for People Management The post holder would be responsible for ensuring that the team receive regular line management and supervision, inline with Livewell policy. The post holder would also be responsible for mentoring BSC Hons Mental Health nursing students as per their NMC pin. The post holder would also have responsibility to support in teaching and training staff from other disciplines this would include turbo teach sessions, contribution to the regular face to face teaching sessions as well as the teaching of practical skills such as how to undertake a middle upper arm circumference level (MUAC). 5.2 Responsibility for financial and/or physical resources The post holder is responsible for ordering equipment required for the ED PHC clinic, plus the overall team budget. The post holder is responsible for ensuring that this equipment is in working order, in date and is regulated appropriately by appropriate services. They are also responsible for the ongoing security and auditing of this equipment. 5.3 Responsibility for administration The post holder is responsible for documenting all clinical contact in a timely manner. The post holder will be required to ensure that team administration is in keeping with Livewell policy. Ensuring clinical notes are accurate and timely and all other team information recorded correctly. The post holder will also be required to create letters that are sent to differing health professionals including GPs following assessments. 5.4 Responsibility for people who use our services Clinical contact with patients will be provided within various roles and will include the following (although not exclusively to): to oversee the ED PHC clinic as well as to be responsible for completing the medical monitoring of patients who use this service. This includes undertaking: height, weight, MUAC, a full set of clinical observations, a full set of bloods, as well as an ECG. The post holder will also be required to complete an assessment of the patients physical presentation during these appointments. The post holder will be required to monitor progress and assess risk during these appointments and ultimately use these appointments to assess need, and contribute to the care planning and treatment for the patient. The appointments are hoped to provide support and psychoeducation which the post holder will be responsible for providing. The post holder will be required to respond efficiently and appropriately should the patient require immediate medical intervention. The post holder will need to work alongside other services involved in the persons care. Ensuring continuity of care, excellent communication and support with care planning and risk management. This could be SEDCAS, CMHS, GPs and other services. The person will be support with signposting where necessary. As per the community mental health framework (CMHF) the eating disorder care pathway would like to recruit peer support workers in the near future and the specialist post holder would be responsible for the overseeing, support and supervision of this pathway. 5.5 Responsibility for implementation of policy and/or service developments The post holder will have responsibility for the development of both the ED PHC clinic initiative as well as the pathways for intensive home support. The post holder would also be expected to develop a pathway of support for carers. As per the CMHF the ED care pathway would like to recruit peer support workers and the successful applicant would be responsible for the overseeing of this as well as providing supervision and support to the peer support workers. The post holder will also be expected to be involved in the development of the ED care pathway as a whole. The post holder will be expected to represent the ED care pathway during these developments which may include attending meetings with differing trusts. The post holder will work with other senior staff within the ED pathway, such as SEDCAS and other stakeholders to develop initiatives and improve care. The postholder would also be responsible for the development of future initiatives and will be involved in setting up new processes, and the writing of policies for Livewell. 5.6 Other Responsibilities The post holder will be expected to contribute to data collection in terms of service development specifically within the ED PHC clinic. The post holder will be expected to work in the ethos of the triangle of care including families and carers where appropriate. The successful candidate will be required to ensure that their registration is maintained as per specific qualification requirements. The candidate will also need to ensure ongoing continual professional development, both through attendance of mandatory and non-mandatory training. 6. COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS The successful applicant will be required to communicate and develop therapeutic relationships with patients to support them in their recovery. The post holder will also be required to communicate with parents carers and families as and where appropriate. The care pathway works with alongside a range of differing professionals including: SEDCAS, CMHS colleagues, Glenbourne colleagues and UHP Gastroentologists. The post holder will be required to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and build working relationships, communicate and share information and knowledge with these disciplines. Through the expansion of the ED PHC clinic post holder will be required to network with the equivalent to their role within different trusts. 7. PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF THE JOB The role will require a level of resilience to support this client group who have the highest mortality rate of those with mental illness. The post holder will need to use their stress management techniques, but also utilise regular line management, reflective practice and supervision. The post holder will require skills within computers to be able to document clinical contact. The post holder will be required to drive, and be comfortable to drive to see patients at home, but also visit different parts of the ED care pathway for example: EDS, Cumberland Centre/Avon House.