Nurse Support Team Manager

Description:

The Nurse Support Team Manager will be based inside our Canterbury Operations Centre.

The core hours are 09:00-17:00. The typical working week is Monday-Friday; however, we are open 7 days a week so variations to days worked can be considered to suit candidates. Part time will be considered with a minimum requirement of 3 days.

This role combines managerial and clinical responsibilities to ensure the delivery of excellent services to clients of all ages, with neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism and ADHD. Clinical work is conducted for a proportion of the week in our Canterbury clinic or online.

As a Nurse Support Team Manager(Associates), you will oversee a diverse and multiskilled team of associate clinicians including other nurses (adult and CYP), doctors, clinical psychologists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists as well as our admin staff who support them. Working closely with the Head of Associate Clinician Network and the other Support Team Managers you will be joining a fast growing, friendly team, where your ideas for improvement and innovation will be welcomed.

Principle duties and responsibilities will include but not limited to:
 

• To provide leadership and guidance to an allocated team of clinicians and admin staff offering neurodevelopmental assessment services with Psicon.
• To hold professional responsibility for you team’s provision of quality assessments for neurodevelopmental conditions (ASD & / or ADHD) across a range of clinical models.
• To enable your team to provide excellent standards of care, through support, motivation and monitoring.
• To assist in the selection of high-quality clinicians for the service through conducting clinical screening calls and trial clinics to assess clinical competency.
• To offer your team guidance on day to day running of the clinics and report writing to high standards.
   

Person Specification
 

• Highly skilled Registered Mental health Nurses with significant experience in the assessment and management of ADHD.
• Experience in supporting a team in the delivery of high-quality services to children and families.
• Understanding of private and NHS healthcare structure / systems / pathways across the UK (e.g. NHS England, ICBs, NHS trusts).
• Ability to recognise all significant events, relevant clinical issues and difficulties and report these to the Clinical Leadership Team and Head of Associate Clinician Network.
• Working inside a Psicon clinic in a hybrid model in Canterbury