Addictions Governance and Nursing Lead - London, United Kingdom - South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Addiction Division is looking to recruit an enthusiastic, experienced nursing practitioner to join the Addictions management team in the role of Governance & Nursing Lead.

The post holder will provide advice guidance and education to our workforce in addition to monitoring our incidents, complaints and investigations.

The Addictions Division is a £14 million local authority funded portfolio of drug and alcohol services sitting within the Lewisham Operational Directorate and provides a wide range of community services for those with substantial and complex substance misuse problems, as well as their physical and psychiatric co-morbidities.

The range of facilities includes four borough-based community teams working within consortium models with third sector partners to provide whole addiction treatment systems, we also provide an alcohol assertive outreach team, alcohol care teams within adult acute services across South East London, slam dual diagnosis team and the smoke free team.

The Addictions Division has close links in education and research with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) and KCL School of Medicine, both of which are part of King's College London and form an Academic Health Sciences Centre.

This close collaboration involves working to ensure that developments and research feed directly into clinical practice.

To work as part of the Addictions management team in order to deliver key operational and organisational objectives.

To provide visible nursing leadership, advice and support to service leads and other professionals.

To initiate and implement professional development initiatives

To develop and support evidence based practice across the Addictions Division and wider Trust

With the Head of Nursing develop and implement governance processes within the Addictions Division.

To provide education and training for staff within the Addictions Division on aspects of quality and processes for managing the dimensions of quality.

Ensure the maintenance of excellent standards of patient and staff safety.

To ensure that quality forms an integral part of the operational and strategic aims of the Addictions Division

Ensure that lessons from internal and external incidents, claims, complaints and inquest verdicts analyses are learned and shared

Represent Addiction nursing in the Senior Management Groups, including the Patient Safety Committee, Governance Committee and the Complaints Committee.

Lead in the investigation, monitoring and responses to complaints and SUIs.

To chair the Addictions Team Leader meeting ensuring communication of relevant issues to all levels and giving appropriate feedback.

To be the Addictions lead on adult and child safeguarding

To lead on preparation for CQC

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance.

There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of wellknown retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

Access to SLaM counselling services
Wellbeing events
Long service awards
Cycle to work scheme
Season ticket loan
Staff restaurants

Quality

To support the development and delivery of comprehensive quality reports for the Addictions Division, which enable an aggregated analysis of trends and themes in patient experience, patient safety, patient outcomes, staff safety and other safety issues and lead the process of developing mitigating actions.
Alongside the Head of Nursing to provide leadership for the Directorate in developing programmes of work to ensure that the Trust meets the relevant criteria as described in the standards set by the Care Quality Commission and any other national, servicespecific or local performance frameworks.
Identify problems or areas of concern relating to clinical and nonclinical practice and liaise with the lead professionals to agree and decide required remedial action and the setting and maintaining of standards
To provide advice and teaching on quality and r