Clinical Lead Nurse with UK travel based in Windsor Berkshire SL4 £50-£60k

To work independently taking overall responsibility for care, quality, and clinical activity by providing specialist professional nursing, leadership, training and guidance including:

• The clinical safety of individuals we support ·
• The clinical and competence of healthcare professionals within the organisation
• The competence of staff who are performing delegated responsibility tasks that are clinical in nature (tier 1 and tier 2) ·
• The effectiveness of healthcare interventions ·
• That people we support experience care delivery that they would choose to have ·
• The environment in which care, education and support is delivered is safe and appropriate to the purpose of the clinical experience.

Job Responsibilities

01. Nursing and Therapy leadership

• Ensure the evidence base and standards of best practice inform the training, development, delivery, and improvement of nursing and clinical services, whilst creating a culture of change and innovation with regards to the nursing and allied health workforce with the aim of improving the quality of care and support to individuals.
• Provide leadership to the implementation of relevant national and corporate initiatives related to nursing and therapy to Individuals we support.
• Support the locations to ensure effective systems are in place to support robust preceptorship of newly qualified nurses and the appraisal and clinical supervision of identified nurses and therapists.
• Work alongside the Learning and Development team to support locations and their managers to ensure that nurses, managers, deputies, senior support workers and support workers’ competencies are complete and in date.
• Focus on proactive clinical risk assessments, nursing assessments, the development of clinical models, quality improvement measures, including least restriction interventions and medication management.
• Establish and facilitate regional Communities of Practice for the nursing and therapy workforce to support the sharing of good practice, dissemination of national and regional information and the implementation of organisational initiatives to support improvements for individual’s we support and care for.
• Ensure the evidence base and standards of best practice inform the training, development, delivery and improvement of nursing and therapy. Identify and initiate relevant research and audit programmes to inform improvements in practice.
• Work with the Group Quality and Governance Director to ensure that Individuals we support and family carers are involved in the development of support plans in regards to health needs and their implementation is effective.
• To contribute to the on-going assessment of needs in relation to the nursing and therapy workforce nationally in terms of numbers, skills and training requirements.
• Encourage and support the nursing and therapy workforce to share good practice within the organisation and to be an advocate of in-house training programmes where it is appropriate.
• Participate and at times lead in the nurses forum and any other clinical forums. 

Job Responsibilities(cont’d)

02. Nursing and Therapy leadership 

• Secure and sustain high-quality, safe, person centred nursing and therapy care that delivers positive outcomes and promotes health and wellbeing.
• Ensuring nursing and therapy policies and procedures meet relevant legislative requirements, professional standards, policy guidance, and workforce and regulatory requirements and contribute to their review where this is required
• To provide new policies and procedures where new situations or Individuals we support have a clinical need over and above current policies and procedures.
• Support good governance across the organisation by working collaboratively ensuring opportunities for dissemination of the lessons and learning from incidents/reviews.
• Work with the Senior Leadership Team and the Group Quality and Governance Director to take forward quality and safety initiatives.
• Participate in investigations and inquiries as required and agreed with the Group Quality and Governance Director.
• Undertake clinical audits as appropriate to the setting and as directed.
• To be part of the team in supporting assessments for individuals we may provide care, education and support to who may have complex Health needs