Lead Nurse
Job Description
Job summary
Change Grow Live (CGL) is one of the UKs leading health and social care charities and the Lead Nurse role is a varied one. You will be supporting people with multi-faceted issues related to the impact of substance use on their physical and mental health.
Nurses are an integral member of our multidisciplinary teams, offering specialist clinical interventions to people who use our services. Every person who comes into our service is treated as an individual, so understanding the importance of a whole person approach along with being curious, a good listener, a clinically robust practitioner and having a flexible approach are essential skills.
At CGL we want to support you to recognise and achieve your goals:
- We hold regular national nurse and HCA forums, and you will have regular 1:1s and appraisals
- We actively support our nurses to revalidate with protected continuing professional development time, which totals up to 6 days per year.
- We also have a wide range of educational opportunities including free access to the RCNi learning platform and we pay for your NMC fee
- We offer you the opportunity to use the government backed Apprenticeship Levy fund to develop nursing practice in line with your specific role
- All our staff are encouraged to take a wellbeing hour every week and access personal well -being resources
Main duties of the job
Demonstrate the skills of a motivated leader. Be enthusiastic, inspirational, creative and committed to leading the nursing team.
Demonstrate a sound understanding of clinical governance. Maintaining own continuous professional development by keeping up to date with clinical practice, national guidelines, and developments, and incorporate them as necessary into your work.
Provide clinical and managerial supervision to the nursing team.
Contribute to service development to ensure that all who use our services consistently receive high quality interventions that adhere to best practice guidelines.
Demonstrate excellent clinical skills. Monitor, audit and sustain best practice across the service.
Provide peer support to other lead nurses/cluster lead nurses in your region.
Being an integral member of the services senior leadership team. Informing and supporting with implementation of new clinical initiatives.
Support the services CQC registered manager to maintain compliance through assurance audits.
Work in partnership with stakeholders and promote Change Grow Live clinical service to commissioners and health & wellbeing boards alongside the services manager.
Attend, organise & chair (as required) clinical advisory groups, committees and partnership meetings to ensure appropriate representation of services.
About us
Believe in people
At Change Grow Live, above all else we believe in people. It's the one thing that acts as a foundation for all our work.
If you use our services: we understand what you're going through. We won't judge. We believe you can make positive changes in your life.
If you work or volunteer for us: we believe in your potential. We believe you can do brilliant, life-changing work.
Our mission and vision
Our mission is to help people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential.
The vision we're working towards is to develop, deliver and share a whole person approach that changes society.
We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.
We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work.
The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.
Job responsibilities
Main purpose of the role
The Lead Nurse will form part of the senior management team within the service, working closely with the Service Manager and Lead Doctor to provide and develop high quality clinical service provision, with specific responsibility for Nursing Services.
Reporting and working relationships
The role will report directly to the Services manager, who will provide operational line management and supervision. All clinical supervision will be provided by the Regional Lead Nurse (RLN). The Lead Nurse will provide Clinical Supervision & operational line management to Nurses and HCAs within the Service. Reporting relationships may change
Clinical Practice
Assure that integrated pathways are in place for service users who require treatment for their health needs related to their addiction.
Ensure that the services clinical model is functioning, effective and in line with CGL policy and national guidance.
Implement/maintain an immunisation and vaccination scheme to help combat blood borne virus (BBV) and other infectious diseases and provide advice and information to other professionals on BBV and the care of individuals with drug and alcohol issues.
To ensure all programmes, i.e., immunisation programmes, are adequately staffed so that contractual requirements are always met.
Undertake regular CPD and create an environment that encourages your team to learn and develop. Communication
Work in partnership with stakeholders and promote CGL clinical service to commissioners and health and wellbeing boards alongside the Services Manager.
Disseminate information to your team from the senior operational and clinical management teams. Delivering a Quality Service
To be involved in clinical audit of the service under the direction of the RLN.
Contribute to the overall performance of the service to ensure that contractual output targets are achieved.
To ensure that all clinical services are delivered to a high standard in line with national guidance, CGL policies, procedures and best practice, and in line with CQC Essential Standards. Ensure that procedures are constantly reviewed to promote effective evidenced based practice. Leadership
Work closely with HR to ensure the appropriate people and change management skills, knowledge and capabilities are in place within line management structures and teams.
To manage the clinical aspects of implementations of new clinical developments within the service as required.
Ensure that all legislative requirements are explained to employees in particular the legislation governing the clinical and social care/community field.
Engage proactively with both participating and providing line management and clinical supervision and maintain a current knowledge of appropriate interventions.
Effectively manage and develop all nursing staff and participate in the core training programme as and when required. Team Working
Attend, organise and chair (as required) relevant clinical advisory groups and committees and partnership meetings, to ensure appropriate representation of services.
Spend time in other regions and localities in order to teach, develop and share specialist knowledge with other colleagues, projects and teams.
Work alongside the Lead Doctor and or the Non-Medical Prescriber (NMP) to formulate, plan and implement individual treatment programmes to ensure safety and optimise outcomes for service users. This will include supporting nurses assisting detoxifications from substances across operational sites.
An active support for your peers within the region/organisation.
Risk Management
To undertake regular performance reviews, identify areas of risk and take appropriate action. Managing Information
Assist in the development and implementation of clinical standard operational policies so that services are effectively delivered, controlled, monitored and reported.
Ensure that all data requirements in relation to service users are met within defined deadlines.
The above is an outline of the post holders duties and responsibilities. It is not intended as an exhaustive list and may change from time to time to meet the changing needs of CGL. You will work with your RLN to personalise the standard roles and responsibilities template. Staff will need to work flexibly across operational sites as required and to work flexibly within an agreed number of hours to maintain the most appropriate level of service provision. This role may involve evening, weekend and bank holiday working.
CGLs commitment to you
CGL works within the following framework and requires all employees to do the same.
Equal Opportunities
CGL are committed to creating an inclusive environment, which celebrates difference and allows our staff and service users to flourish. CGL are committed to promoting and ensuring anti discriminatory practices through our organisational values, policies, and procedures, which we expect all staff to promote and adhere to. CGL expect all staff to challenge prejudice and discrimination, to ...
