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Job overview

Poppy Unit have a 12 month secondment/fixed term contract for 3 days a week. This will potentially extend to 18 months, requiring full time cover for the last 6 months and extending to include Bluebell Place of Safety during this time.

This post creates an opportunity for clinical leadership, working in a 20 bedded mixed gender acute inpatient ward, offering training and supervision, completing audits, delivering QI projects and ensuring compliance with best practice. The post holder will take the lead in Patient Safety Incident Response Framework. The Senior practitioner will alongside the ward manager play an active role in promoting and supporting quality care, and taking a clinical lead on the ward.

The post holder will work closely with Bluebell Place of Safety's other Senior Practitioner embedding learning and change invocations across the Green Lane site. They will also be part of the multi-disciplinary team  and wider leadership team of the hospital. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work across Poppy Unit, ensuring consistency and oversight in the delivery of clinical training and supervision, particularly around physical health, risk management and sexual safety.  

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver bitesize training on wards.
• Develop a network of leads across all clinical wards and teams.
• Overseeing induction sessions as needed.
• Contribute to regular audits, ensuring compliance with Trust expectations.
• Obtain data and prepare reports for Locality Quality and Standards and Locality Physical Health Group.
• Attend Trustwide meetings representing the Locality.
• Deliver Quality Improvement Projects, together with QI lead.
• Work closely with MDT developing care pathways and move on plans. 
• Engage with National Forums as appropriate to ensure that the wards are in line with Best Practice.
• Provide management and / or clinical supervision to leads in this clinical area.
• Development of Standard Operating Procedures in line with contract requirements.
• Maintain links with Trust Lead to ensure compliance.
• Maintenance of Continued Professional Development in order to maintain and develop skills to deliver best patient care.
• PSIRF.

Working for our organisation

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust): a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care. 

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.  

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.