At Cygnet we're passionate about delivering exceptional care and are looking for a Regional Lead Nurse (RMN) to join our team, covering our sites in the North.
You will report directly to the Regional Nurse Director and be professionally accountable to the Group Executive Director of Nursing.
Please note: This role is a remote role and will require travel to sites across the North operational patch covering all of our healthcare inpatient services.
Job Summary
The post holder will be a registered mental health nurse and highly visible member of the Healthcare nursing leadership team spending a proportion of their working week in services, working alongside clinical and operational teams supporting best practice and offering solutions to develop our staff to ensure continuous improvement and patient safety.
As a skilled and experienced practitioner with a clinical and leadership background, the post holder will support practice to drive change and embed a culture of continuous learning and improvement for nurses and support workers in the clinical area.
This will require travel to sites across the North operational patch covering all of our healthcare inpatient services. The individual must be able to manage the conflicting demands that a large geographical area and diverse clinical specialities create. This may include overnight visits, out of hours visits in addition to remote support and meeting attendance.
Responsibilities
- The post holder will professionally support the development of the nursing workforce and its care delivery.
- To contribute to the clinical and strategic development of services, supporting the implementation of best practice.
- Support operational teams to ensure that staff have the appropriate skills to undertake their role.
- Provide clinical advice and judgement when required by services.
- Visits to sites will include review and audit of activity including medication management, care planning, risk assessment, professional standards and reducing restrictive practice.
- Conduct disciplinary and service investigations as requested.
Leadership
- Be an exemplary role model ensuring staff work within their professional Code of Conduct and within the policies and procedures of Cygnet
- Participate in the development, review and amendment of Cygnet policies, guidelines and SOPs as required.
- Support the Regional Nurse Director in regular service support and review in relation to delivery of the mental health strategy as required.
- Support the monitoring of nursing care and professional standards within the organisation, to ensure that objectives and targets are achieved (internal and external) and that performance reporting requirements are satisfied. To set and maintain clinical and professional standards within mental health nursing.
- To be available to attend internal and external committees as requested by the Regional Nurse Director.
Training
- Empower others to make safe and appropriate clinical decisions through professional development and expert role modelling.
- Provide nursing expertise to Education and Training, and ensure alignment and contribution to the organisation training strategy.
- Providing expert advice and support to ensure the correct content is included in training.
Clinical Governance
- Ensuring you have oversight of emerging themes and trends in respect of patient safety.
- Providing a route of escalation of clinical governance concerns
- Supporting services to continuously improve and develop.
Safeguarding
- Ensuring you are a trained safeguarding lead within the division
- Supporting operational colleagues to ensure compliance with safeguarding training across the sites
- Working with the Regional Nurse Director and central safeguarding team in identifying any sites of concern and working with operational colleagues to take action as required.
Infection Prevention and Control
- Working with operational colleagues in ensuring robust actions are taken following the national cleaning standards audits.
- Working with the corporate IPC team in understanding where the IPC risks are within the region.
- When issues are identified with IPC audits, cleaning standards and hand hygiene for appropriate support to be put into place.
Restrictive Practices
- Working with the corporate team in ensuring we continually strive to reduce restrictive practices across the division
- Alongside the Regional Nurse Director and the Regional head of positive and safe care the post holder will monitor seclusions, restraints, rapid tranquilisations and LTS across the division, working with operations to ensure we provide support where sites need specific attention.
- To monitor the dashboards via information management systems and implement corrective actions where themes and trends are occurring to ensure we work in the most restrictive ways.
Quality Improvement
- To be trained in quality improvement methodology and adopt a continuous quality improvement approach across the region working closely with operational colleagues.
- Working with operational colleagues and the corporate QI team in identification of quality improvement projects across the division.
- Working with the QI team in ensuring the development of a culture of continuous quality improvement.
- Using data to identify themes and trends where opportunities for improvement exist.
- Where appropriate to lead on specific quality projects.
Physical Health
- Support the teaching programme on physical health where appropriate ensuring services are managing physical health safely and using best practice approaches.
- Ensure that there is comprehensive assessment and support for physical health within services
Patient Experience
- To work with our patient experience leads and EbE’s to ensure we clearly understand what our patients are saying about their experiences of care.
- To work with our operational colleagues to ensure any areas for improvement have been identified and appropriate action plans put into place.
- Ensuring that service user care is at the centre of everything we do.
Why Cygnet? We’ll offer you…
- An opening to undertake further learning with our excellent apprenticeship scheme
- Expert supervision & support
- Employee referral scheme
- Free Health Cash plan
- Enhanced maternity pay: 8 weeks full Pay, 18 weeks half Pay (Inclusive of SMP) followed by 13 weeks SMP.
- 24 hours free GP support line
- Free life assurance cover
- Free eye tests
- Car lease discounts
- Discounted gym membership
- Free mortgage broker and Insurance cover
- Pension scheme
- Employee NHS – discount savings & “Cycle to Work” scheme
- Smart Health Toolkit- Providing you with Fitness Programmes, Nutrition consultation and Health checks
Ready to make a positive change? Please click on the ‘apply now’ link below or send your CV to LenaStreet@cygnethealth.co.uk
Due to limits on sponsorship allocations, we are not currently in a position to offer sponsorship to new candidates for these roles, this remains under review.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
