Lead Nurse Restrictive Practice | South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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., 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., Provide expert nurse leadership, advice and clinical guidance to nurses and multidisciplinary teams in the area of restrictive practices; seclusion, rapid tranquilisation, Seni Lewis Training Programme and blanket rules. Advising on risk assessments and care plans.

- Advise and liaise with the Nurse Consultant for Restrictive Practice with regard to any specialist nursing issues

- Enhance the quality of the service user experience by providing high level training and supervision to develop nursing staff and multi-professional staff knowledge and skills with regards to Restrictive Practice.

- Provide expert nursing advice as a member of the Trust wide Restrictive Practices committee.

- Provide expert nursing advice to senior nurses Trust wide.

- Work in collaboration with senior nurses internally and externally to promote excellent practice and high-quality care across the Trust and with its partners.

- Provide advice to ensure service users receive appropriate evidence-based interventions.

- Play a key role in planning nursing care and delivery of interventions that will reduce the use of restrictive practices.

- Within the subject of restrictive practices, lead the development of the evidence based for care, by keeping up to date with national initiatives and engagement in national forums.

- Lead changes in practice to support the development of high standards of service user care.

- Support the delivery of the Trust Strategy with regard to Reducing Violence and Restrictive Practice and use of prone restraint.

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 services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.