Swansea Bay University Health Board r09YEVko
Additionally, the Deputy Ward Manager will support the operational management of the unit, contribute to multidisciplinary care delivery, and assess admits for the Specialist Residential Services Unit. The position includes providing learning disability nursing advice across service settings and participating in the Nurse on-call rota. While the ability to speak Welsh is desirable, it is not mandatory for applicants. The role offers a dynamic and challenging work environment focused on supporting adults with learning disabilities who may exhibit challenging behaviors.
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Deputy Manager /Clinical Lead who is a Registered Learning Disability or Mental Health Nurse, with experience of working with people with learning disabilities, mental health issues and a forensic history.
The successful candidate will be required to work as part of a seven-day service, which includes weekend, nights and bank holidays.
Llety Newydd is based in the Cardiff area and offers a dynamic and challenging work environment, supporting adults with Learning Disabilities who present with behaviours which can challenge. We aim to provide a high quality, person centred approach based on the Positive Behaviour Support model of care.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable but not essential for this post.
Duties will include assisting the Ward Manager with the daily functioning of the unit, assisting with responsibility for all staff management, resource allocation, modernisation and development of the workforce and services and overseeing patient referrals, assessments and care.
Supporting the Ward Manager to operationally manage the unit and to assist with leading , co-ordinate and contribute to the delivery of Continuing Health Care Units on an operational basis via the nursing team, ensuring holistic delivery of care and multi-disciplinary/multi-agency services, which are coherent, consistently applied and in line with Operational Policies and best practice. The post holder will assist with responsibility in assessing and make recommendations to the Responsible Clinician/Clinical Team on the suitability of patients for admission to the Specialist Residential Services Unit. The post holder will also be responsible with assisting the Ward Manager to provide learning disability nursing advice and support to other learning disability settings across the service group. The post holder will assist with ward management and nursing leadership and routinely monitor occupancy, dependency and observation levels on the ward to ensure that these are managed within the available resources.
The post holder will participate in the Nurse on-call rota for the learning disability division.
About us
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in TRAC.
Please wait...this will take a moment...
