Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Responsibilities

1.       Supporting the manager in ensuring that all staff employed within your service are recruited, developed, supported and managed in an appropriate and professional manner with specific responsibility around the management of clinical needs of clients

2.       Responsible, with your manager in addressing the training and development needs of staff and ensuring that they are pertinent to the stated clinical needs of clients within the service.

3.       Responsible, with your manager, for addressing your own personal development and training needs based on service objectives and philosophy.

4.       Responsible for supporting the manager in maintaining the quality of the service provided within your defined service with specific responsibility around the ongoing monitoring of support plans and positive risk assessments for relevance, effectiveness and overall quality.

5.       Responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that you and staff within your service comply with St. Anne’s values and beliefs, policies and procedures.

6.       Responsible for supporting your manager in ensuring that your service(s) have access to, and uses, the best current thinking and practice in the delivery of those services.

7.       Responsibility to undertake (with the manager) a lead role in the clinical supervision of staff with reference to Skills for Care code of conduct for Health and Social care workers and with the overall objective of maintaining quality of service provision.

8.    Supporting and assessing Specialist Support Workers in the completion of the Level 3 Mental health Certificate

9.     Responsibility for contributing to the successful future development of St. Anne’s by highlighting opportunities within the broad corporate aims of the organisation.  This will include contributions to policy and procedures and to service developments.

10.      Responsibility for supporting your manager in monitoring your service(s) in such a way that it is compliant with the expectations and statutory requirements set by local commissioning agreements and regulators of services.

11.   Responsibility for supporting the manager in establishing and maintaining effective links within your teams, with other organisations, and agencies or workers whose role(s) may impact upon your service area.

12.      Responsibility for supporting your manager in ensuring that staff respect the rights of clients with whom they work and for providing a healthy, safe and stimulating environment for both clients and staff.

13.      Responsibility for any specific roles and duties within the home as agreed with the manager. Ensuring that supervisions are carried, documentations are up to date and always reviewed when health needs change.  Liaise with multidisciplinary teams and relatives to keep everyone updated.  To be able to ensure shifts are covered and nurses are doing their monthly reviews, daily checks and monthly checks.  Clinical lead can do timesheets if manager is not in service, is able to do audits e.g. infection prevention control, medication weekly and monthly audits, health and safety audits, review clients risk assessments and care documentations.

14.      Responsible for ensuring that as an individual, and as part of a team, that resources are used appropriately and that all necessary steps are taken to avoid fuel energy waste.

15.      Responsible for maximising the opportunities for client participation.

16.      Assessing and mentoring student nurses on placement within the service.

N.B.  The post holder may be expected to undertake additional responsibilities appropriate to grade and capability. This job description will be regularly reviewed, involving the post holder, to ensure that it continues to reflect service priorities and developments.

 This is a job outline only and seeks to set out the principal purpose and function of the job; it may therefore be subject to change.