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Job overview

Clinical and Care Professional Leads support south east London-wide and borough programmes of work, therefore, there is an expectation that you currently work within south east London, and for borough based roles, within that borough.

We are recruiting a clinical and care professional lead to support our mental health transformation programme with a specific focus on medicines optimisation. The post holder will be responsible for providing strategic input into the design and delivery of community mental health services and support delivery of the mental health elements of the transforming and integrating medicines optimisation joint forward plan.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will be responsible for:
•    Championing medicines optimisation in mental health to facilitate safe and effective care across all care sectors and professional groups.
•    Advising on a system wide transformation plan for mental health services, with a specific focus on medicines optimisation and developing the ICS approach in improving care for people with severe mental illness. 
•    Supporting partners across the system in considering opportunities for improving services for people with severe mental illness through expanding local, place-based services and better integrating voluntary and community sector partners into service delivery.
•    Providing specialty specific advice and guidance to the relevant groups and stakeholders across the system, including supporting the South East London Transforming and Integrating Medicines Optimisation programme across ICS partners. 

Working for our organisation

From the Catford Cat to the Brixton Windmill and Chislehurst Caves, South East London is a vibrant, fun, unique and richly diverse place to live, grow, learn and work.

The South East London Integrated Care System (SELICS) brings together the organisations responsible for health and care services in south east London, making the greatest possible contribution to the health and wellbeing of people living in our six boroughs.

SELICS is made up of staff working in many different roles, in different settings, employed in different ways, by a wide range of partner organisations, and are at the centre of our collective ambition for greater integration and better care. Employing organisations include NHS Trusts, GP practices, Social Care and Voluntary sector organisations, social enterprises, dental surgeries, pharmacies and optometrists.

We have an ambitious People Strategy that brings these partners together to deliver the ‘one workforce’ ambition, making the health and care system a better place to work and live.