Nursing Team Leader

To observe and abide by the NMC 'Code of Professional Conduct' and all other NMC professional guidance. To meet the N.M.C. Prep requirements and CPD as a registered nurse. To work towards the implementation of Valuing People Now (2009). To take the lead in providing and maintaining the management structure of the team. To work as a learning disability nurse with a special interest in challenging behaviour and mental health wellbeing for people with learning disabilities. To work with professional Leads and Community Team Manager in the development of the Specialist Learning Disability Service To be responsible for ensuring the smooth running and co-ordination of the nursing component of the service and monitoring of service activity. To work in liaison with service users, carers, other professionals, and co-operatively with other services ensuring a needs-led service. To be responsible for identifying and developing opportunities for Service User Involvement in key local and Trust wide service operation and development. To ensure the service is responsive & timely by taking the lead in the management of referrals to the nurse team., To be professionally & legally responsible & accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of service users in your care. Undertake clinical risk assessment and management plans and develop within these, comprehensive multi agency contingency planning. To provide specialist clinical advice for service users who present challenging needs. This includes direct work with service users and families, advice to colleagues, other service providers and carers. To manage a caseload and operate as a named health worker to service users. To identify and provide training in response to specific service user needs. To carry out assessment of individual needs, make recommendations of how to meet those needs, support the implementation of these recommendations and monitor, evaluate and review the input. To carry out joint assessments with other MDT members. To take a lead in the promotion and development of evidence based, quality nursing practice. To take the lead in facilitating student nurse placements. To take part in research in the field of challenging needs and to keep up to date as part of continuing professional development with academia in the field of Learning Disabilities and Mental Health. To administer medication, where appropriate, in accordance with professional, legal and local requirements. To be responsible for record-keeping and report writing in accordance with NMC Record Keeping guidelines and Trust Policy. To be responsible for organising, and chairing Service User needs led meetings as part of development of holistic and multi-agency care planning.

• RNLD /RNMHH
• ENB 997/998(Mentoring & Preceptorship) or equivalent
• Post graduate qualification, Proven experience of working in a Specialist LD community Service.
• Clinical and operational management of junior staff
• Managing service priorities met, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services. The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Our Trust values are: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it! Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?, HPFT supports people with mental ill health, learning disabilities and autism across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk and Essex. We employ around 4,500 people who deliver these services within the community and in inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services and medium and low secure learning disabilities services. We have operated as a NHS Foundation Trust since our authorisation in August 2007.