Job summary
- Main area
- CRHT Mid Mersey - Mental Health Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (24/7 role including bank holidays, weekends and nights)
- Job ref
- 350-MHC6355950
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Harry Blackman House, Peasley Cross
- Town
- St Helens
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/07/2024
Employer heading
Clinical Lead
Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a committed, competent and passionate Clinical Lead to join the Mid Mersey Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team.
Responsibilities:
To provide clinical and managerial leadership to a team of CRHT staff within the Liverpool area. To work as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure a consistent approach to the care of Service Users.
To build effective relationships with Care Teams and other care providers and ensure that views of Service Users, Carers, relatives and friends are given appropriate recognition.
To influence and shape evidence based clinical practice and to take a lead role in the implementation and support of change.
To operate in a role that is primarily therapeutic in nature developing effective relationships with Service User in a variety of care settings.
Main duties of the job
Clinical supervision skills.
Expertise in clinical assessment and decision making.
The ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
Complete, review and present RADAR & 72 hour reviews as required.
Complete, review and share learning of clinical audits both with senior leadership team and CRHT
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide professional leadership to the team (in line with service philosophy), acting as a role model and demonstrating up to date knowledge of mental health issues and awareness of physical health needs, through the development of professional expertise and the maintenance of professional networks.
To promote the mental and physical well-being of Service Users by ensuring health promotion, psychological, rehabilitation and educational needs are addressed
To lead and coordinate the work of Care Teams, ensuring that their activities encompass all facets of Service Users care and are achieved in line with all Trust and local policies and
procedures.
To actively seek the view of Service Users and Carers in the development and monitoring of services, ensuring high standards of care delivery.
To ensure that Service Users’ care plans are developed to meet the assessed needs of the individual under the guidelines of Effective Care Coordination, including effective care pathways for Service Users and Carers.
To be a point of contact for Service Users and families if they have any concerns about their care, to listen to their concerns and employ highly developed communication skills, to offer reassurance or negotiate solution.
To employ well-established communication skills to relay sensitive or contentious information to staff, Service Users or their carers.
To use well-established verbal and non-verbal communication skills to interact with staff, Service Users or their families where there may be barriers to understanding due to high levels of emotion or resistance.
To provide verbal or written reports as requested by other departments or the Crisis Lead on a variety of issues, e.g. complaints, incidents or investigations.
Please refer to the attached Job Description for a full lit of duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Mental Health Nurse or Dip SW/CQSW or Dip COT SROT
- Evidence of post-graduate professional qualification, PSI Cert/diploma
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post-graduate experience.
- Experience of leading a team of Mental Health Practitioners
- Experience of clinical practice and Care within the community setting.
- Evidence of experience of working a range of people with mental health problems in a variety of health care settings
- Experience of working with carers, families and service users in community settings.
- Experience of providing Clinical Supervision.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of budgetary management
- 2 – 3 years at Band 6 or above
- Experience of Crisis Intervention
- Risk assessment experience
- Proficient IT Skills
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally.
- Possess excellent listening and negotiation skills
- Leadership skills. Knowledge of relevant Mental Health legislation
- High standard of verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to work effectively with relevant professional networks in Mental Health / Child Protection.
- Problem solving/ decision - making skills
- Knowledge of Clinical Risk and Health & Safety Management
- Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to qualified and unqualified staff.
- Demonstrate understanding of how clinical standards will help to raise the quality of care.
- Knowledge of Mental Health Nursing Interventions
- Experience of identifying training needs which are used to inform training programmes.
- Performance Management/ appraisal skills
- Knowledge of Clinical Audit /effectiveness / service evaluation.
- Knowledge of developments in community care and of mental health legislation.
- Demonstrates knowledge of ECC guidelines.
- Ability to influence
- Experience of mental health assessments
- Professional attitude.
- Flexibility.
- Ability to contribute to develop nursing excellence within the community team.
- Access to transport.
- On going post-registration development.
- Able to demonstrate flexibility in working hours .
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Genevieve Kerr
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01744 415 625
- Additional information
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