An exciting opportunity has arisen for a forward thinking, highly motivated, innovative and experienced registered Mental Health Practitioner to provide team Clinical leadership to L& M HBTT. You will be responsible for providing clinical leadership and ensuring that the care provided is safe, effective and supports service users and carers.

You will be able to reflect LSCFT values of being kind, respectful, working as part of a team and always learning. You should have experience of working as a Band 6 or current band 7 and demonstrate evidence of learning within teams and supporting individuals through change, including facilitating a drive for continued staff development.

Experience of working within the community Urgent Care pathway is desirable. You should also be able to show a commitment to supporting engagement with service users and carers to support service development promoting a positive culture of both patient and carer / family engagement.

You should be able to demonstrate effective, evidence based care management, risk assessment and leadership skills. You must have the ability to positively influence and adapt to a rapidly developing service that is able to meet the needs service users and carers.

You will provide specialist clinical input to the team and carry a small clinical caseload of complex cases, demonstrating competence in complex decision making, assessment and the management of clinical needs within the specialist area of practice.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

Be responsible and accountable for ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based care to Service Users as allocated within the designated pathway

Lead on the implementation of evidence based clinical protocols/pathways

Embed clinical pathways and support staff development in relation to this

Contribute towards the continuous development of the clinical pathways within the service promoting a learning culture within the team

Clinically support the flow of patient activity and bed availability by providing advice and support to colleagues in the Bed Hub in relation to relevant service user group

Support the service in its implementation of clinical effectiveness programs by taking part in any agreed research, quality improvement projects and audit projects, leading on key aspects when identified as appropriate

Provide clinical leadership in relation to area of specialism using the most up to date and evidence based theory, and contribute towards service development, quality governance and assurance

Offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, staff and other professionals

Make a contribution to training, teaching and supervision of colleagues including ensuring delivery of high quality care and a good understanding, knowledge, systems and processes across the Team

Work in partnership with service users, carers and other agencies to improve patient outcomes and experience

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Mental Health Nurse/ Registered Learning Disability Nurse (as appropriate) or equivalent relevant professional registration (Social Worker, Occupational Therapist)
• Post graduate continued professional development

Experience

Essential

• Post qualification experience within relevant services
• Experience of working with a wide range of mental illnesses
• Experience of providing clinical supervision

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of mental illness and impact upon quality of life
• Risk formulation
• Demonstrable interest in continuing developing knowledge

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Address

East Barn

Lancaster

LA1 4JJ

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