Lead Nurse Restrictive Practice

The Trust is recruiting a Lead Nurse Reducing Restrictive Practice for a 12-month secondment. The successful candidate will be providing expert nurse leadership, advice and clinical guidance to nurses and multidisciplinary teams in the area of restrictive practices. Putting the patient at the centre of decisions and practice will be essential as well as the drive to coproduce.

This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience working in a trust with clear aspirations to provide outstanding care across geography and an enviable range of services.

This role will appeal to someone who wants to lead the development and delivery of evidence-based restrictive practice across the Trust and Provide expert advice on restrictive practice issues within the Trust and externally, at local and national level., MAIN DUTIES-To advise on clinical practice development, and the implementation of practice development initiatives across in-patient services relating to restrictive practices.-To lead on specific projects related to reducing restrictive practices.-To work directly with service users and their carers.- To work directly with multi-professional care teams, offering expert advice for service users.- To support the Consultant Nurse co-ordinate the Trust Restrictive Practices committee.

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse