Description
Priory Highbank Centre £46,000 perannumFull Time – 37.5hours
Highbank has an opportunityfor a Clinical Lead to join our team.
ThePriory Highbank Centre is a 19 bedded facility forNeuro-rehabilitation and complex neuro-disability. Service usersare referred mainly from NHS funders across the country for slowstream neuro rehabilitation or specialist assessments like PDoCassessments by experienced clinicians. The team also manages thosepeople with complex tracheostomy and/or mechanical ventilation forspecialist assessments or slow streamneuro-rehabilitation.
What you’ll bedoing
You will be part of acompassionate team that is committed to supporting people’swellbeing. We take a personalised approach, using proven therapiesto help people move forward with confidence and build a healthier,more fulfilling future.
If successful, you wouldbecome part of and be the Lead of our dedicated multidisciplinaryClinical team who offer an evidence-based approach toperson-centred care and therapy.
You will be working in conjunction withother experienced members of the MDT, including a Consultant, GP,nurses, physiotherapists, speech and language therapist,neuropsychologist, and external professionals, with excellentcommunication and organisational skills to promote teamgoals.
- To promote, monitor and implement standards for serviceprovision within the clinical environments, evaluating throughclinical governance and audits as per company guidance andstandards.
- Provide clinical leadership,positive role modelling to the whole team, ensuring effectivecommunication across the multidisciplinary team, throughsupervision, mentoring and appraisals.
- Develop close working relationships with externalprofessionals and clinical colleagues, ensuring clinical practiceis in line with Priory policies and procedures and complies withstatutory regulations and quality standards
- Bethe leader for the clinical team at site, directly supervising thenursing team and supporting other clinicians as a senior clinicalcolleague.
- Be the main contact andliaison person for commissioners, families and other externalprofessionals who supports our service users atsite
- Conduct and organize pre- admissionassessments following referrals from external stakeholders andconsultants, working with the whole MDT.
- Carry out nursing and neuro assessments alongside otherclinical colleagues to identify service user needs, before planningand delivering the appropriate interventions.
- Compose Nursing reports and attend / lead onmultidisciplinary team meetings / reports with other seniorclinicians.
- Lead the implementation of newinnovations within their site and sharing best practice withcolleagues within the service.
- Undertakeon-call duties as part of the leadership team at site to advise andsupport team as required.
You can findadditional information in the attached jobdescription.
What you’ll bringto the role
You will be anexperienced and enthusiastic Registered Nurse with postqualification experience. You will have managerial or leadershipexperience, preferably working in a neurological or complex careservice in a mixture of physical, sensory, cognitive, emotional& psychological difficulties e.g. prolonged disorders ofconsciousness, long term medical conditions, tracheostomy and longterm mechanical ventilation etc.
Applicants willbe subject to recruitment and selection procedures designed toemphasis the Unit’s commitment to the safeguarding of its serviceusers.
What we will give you inreturn
We want you to succeed atPriory and thrive in your role. You will be well supported withregular career conversations. We also offer full training andnumerous pathways into leadership and qualified clinical positionsto help you shape your career with us.
- Designated supernumery hours to do leadership andmanagerial duties
- All mandatory trainingprovided at site
- Support andopportunities for continuing professional development andspecialist training relevant to the speciality
- Contributory pension scheme
- Flexiblebenefits including reduced rates and access to new schemesincluding gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets /smartphones) and private healthcare
- Access todevelopment opportunities
- Sponsorship ofprofessional qualifications through our Individual ProfessionalDevelopment (IPD) panel
- Leadership &management development
- Long serviceaward
- Refer a friend bonuses
Shortlisting may begin upon receiptof applications, and the Recruiting Manager may close the vacancyearly if enough suitable candidates areidentified.
AboutPriory
Priory is the UK’s leading independentprovider of mental health and adult social care. With 12,000colleagues and a network of 270 services, we support over 24,000people each year to live their lives as fully and independently aspossible. We treat more than 70 conditions – including depression,anxiety, eating disorders and children’s mental health – andprovide residential and supported living care for autistic adults,people with a learning disability, Prader–Willi Syndrome, braininjuries and olderpeople.
We are an equal opportunities employer committed toproviding an inclusive, accessible recruitment process. Learn moreabout the accessibility support we offer here.
Foragency enquiries and applications, please view our legal statementhere.
All roles are subject to asuccessful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosureand Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. Priorywill cover the cost of a DBScheck.
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