Lead Nurse (Low Secure Unit)
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Are you a passionate and motivated nurse leader? We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as aLead Nurse within our forensic, low secure, and rehabilitation service at Kingsway Hospital, Derby.
Could you help to strengthen our leadership team, inspire colleagues, and help shape the future of our service?
You'll be part of a strong and supportive team based on a 20-bed unit across two wards - Curzon and Scarsdale, providing 24-hour inpatient nursing support at Kedleston.
Our service supports adults with severe and enduring mental illness, often with a forensic or risk history, who need longer-term assessment, treatment, and stabilisation before transitioning back into the community.
In this role, you'll:
Job description
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Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Diploma Level (i.e. Dip HE Nursing) or Degree Level
- Evidence of up to date Personal Development Plan Professional Portfolio
Desirable
- Experience in mentoring and supervising staff
- Experience working with families and carers
Experience/Skills
Essential
- Post-registration clinical expertise that will include core competencies around NMC Nurse Competencies
- Demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate and lead multi-professional teams
- Demonstrate knowledge and expertise of CPA/Risk Assessment and Management Skills
- Demonstrate the ability to lead the clinical team in a service user/ career focused way
- Demonstrate exposure to and a comprehensive knowledge of Clinical Governance in action (audit, research clinical effectiveness etc)
- Demonstrate operational management skills, including change management, project management etc
- Demonstrate knowledge of legal and ethical issues relating to clinical practice, including policy and procedure development
- Demonstrate an understanding of work-based legislation
Desirable
- Experience of working in secure and/or rehabilitation settings
About the employer
Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.
CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the Trust."
Benefits include: