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Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
About
Our mission:
To improve the quality of life for people in Cheshire and Wirral by providing specialist health and social care services and support to individuals, families and communities affected by mental illness or learning disabilities.
Professional Lead for Nursing: Specialist Mental Health
Closed for applications on: 10-Jul-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 10-Jul-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Redesmere
- Address
- Liverpool Road
- Town
- Chester
- Postcode
- CH2 1BQ
- Major / Minor Region
- Cheshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 per annum on call allowance
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8c)
Specialty
- Main area
- Professional Lead for Nursing: Specialist Mental Health
Job overview
**We offer a relocation package of up to £8,000**
The relocation package is for anyone who would need to relocate in order to take up employment with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership. Terms and conditions apply.
We are excited to announce a vacancy for a mental health nurse leadership post within the Specialist Mental Health (SMH) Care Group at Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for an innovative, passionate, and highly skilled mental health nurse who is an
exceptional leader, motivated to promote and capable to enable, high quality nursing care at all levels. Bringing about the best outcomes for our
services users, carers, and communities that we serve and best experiences for our nurses who provide care. The post holder will act as the
Professional Lead for Nursing in the SMH Care Group, working closely with both the Strategic Clinical Director and Associate Director of
Operations of the SMH Care Group and the Associate Director of Nursing and Therapies; Mental Health and Learning Disabilities.
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To provide a professional voice for nursing across the SMH Care Group and to further develop the vision of the nursing contribution, to the
overarching ambitions of the SMH Care Group. Through effective networking and matrix working with peers, operational and professional leads,
and experts by experience across the SMH Care Group, this post will play a key role in identifying the nursing workforce’s transformative potential,
supporting innovation and new ways of working to meet current and future needs of the people of Cheshire and Wirral. A key priority will be
engaging, supporting, and maximising the potential of the senior nurse leaders to be at their best and to provide exceptional nurse leadership in
their own areas of practice and teams, including with Consultant Nurses, Modern Matrons and Advanced Clinical Practitioners. To participate in
the out of hour’s tier 2 on call rota.
As the Professional Lead for Nursing you will be a core member of the SMH Care Group Senior Leadership Team - the nurse professional
leadership contribution will be centred around:
• Care quality, improvement and research, patient safety and experience, clinical effectiveness, safer staffing, and service transformation.
• Clinical practice – working at an advanced clinical level in their own nursing practice, supporting, enabling, and advising on best nursing
practice and standards.
• Education – continuing professional development, workforce development, preceptorship, and student education.
Working for our organisation
CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care – including the provision of three GP surgeries.
Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.
We offer a variety of roles at all levels, so whether you are just starting out in your career or looking to use your skills and experience in a new role, CWP is the right employer for you.
CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences.
To support this, we offer up to three weeks induction, dependent on role, with our Prepare to Care programme for all new starters. This aims to give you all the knowledge and guidance to help you grow and flourish with CWP.
We welcome applications from people who have direct experience of accessing our services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please download a copy of the job description for full details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which are ‘the 6 Cs’ Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment. A ‘Guide to completing your application form’ can be accessed on the bottom of this page under the job description, or via our website https://www.cwp.nhs.uk/completing-application-guidance
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’
Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.
CWP is proud to be an accredited Veteran Aware organisation helping to provide and share best practice in NHS care for our armed forces community. As a veteran aware organisation, CWP is committed to delivering on the principles of the Armed Force Covenant and has a ‘Silver’ award with the MOD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).
The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
If you experience any technical difficulties or need help when making an application please contact our Recruitment Team on 01244 393100.
Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon.
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A professional qualification in nursing
- Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Demonstrable evidence of robust and extended continuous professional development
- Post graduate qualification at Masters level or equivalent experience
- Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Qualification or demonstrable equivalent experience in Quality Improvement methodologies (QI)
Desirable criteria
- Project or Programme management qualification
Knowledge and Expertise
Essential criteria
- Highly developed nursing clinical skills in relevant clinical area
- Very highly developed knowledge of nursing and national drivers supporting SMH Care Group services
- Extensive knowledge of the healthcare system, including national, regional, and local policy drivers for nursing provision
- Experience of service and business planning
- Experience of leading successful organisational change and development
- Highly developed understanding of place-based care and population health principles
- Demonstrable experience of leading improvement activities involving multiple clinical disciplines
- Exceptional verbal and written skills.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience at a senior clinical or strategic level in a health or social care setting
- Experience of workforce planning
- Experience of managing operational delivery of services
- Experience of integration of research with NHS service
- Experience of working with partnership agencies to bring about effective change Experience of working at a system level within health and social care
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Watts
- Job title
- Associate Director of Operations
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917 556 294
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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