Clinical Lead

Job Overview

If you are an enthusiastic and forward-thinking registered mental health professional, we are looking for you to join the Older Peoples Community Mental Health Team across Hull. We are seeking the right individual who can strive to deliver high-quality clinical interventions, and wants to further advance the way we provide care to some of the most vulnerable people in society.

We are seeking a Clinical lead to join the existing CMHT Leadership Team to contribute to the further development of the CMHT service. Alongside the ongoing work of the community mental health transformation, this makes it an exciting time to join the team as the Clinical Lead.

We are seeking candidates with significant mental health experience, over a range of settings, who are eager to be involved in the ongoing development of the service. If you’re looking to expand your skills and experience, can think innovatively and lead on meaningful change, this role would be ideal for you.

• A chance to be at the forefront of innovation
• Bridging the gap and delivering mental health care in a new way
• Leading a team of multidisciplinary clinicians
• Flexible working creating a great work/life balance
• Join to be part of our highly motivated and skilled team
  
  

Main duties of the job

As the Clinical Lead, you will work alongside the Team Manager, under the supervision of the Service Manager and Modern Matron. The team consists of registered clinicians and administrative staff, for whom you will provide day to day support.

The role will involve using your advanced clinical and leadership skills to provide clinical support and advice to the MDT, working with complex cases and providing specialist supervision to colleagues within the team.

You will work closely with your peers across the community mental health provision, to identify challenges and ways to address them. You will be responsible for supporting the development of clinical pathways and ensuring high quality of care through the use of appropriate audit and review of patient feedback.

There will be an expectation to hold NMP qualification or be willing to undertake this.

• Provide direct clinical care
• Provide clinical leadership
• Work in new systems
• Utilise your specialist skills and develop new ones
• Provide seamless care transitions
• Put the patient at the centre of everything you do
  
  

Working for our organisation

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Person specification

Qualifications & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area
• Evidence of project work that has impacted on practice and demonstrates a higher level of communication/planning/change that impacts out of own area of work/responsibility
• Be a member of a recognised professional body and hold a current professional registration
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Specialist/advanced understanding/application of relevant managerial and leadership aspects of the service area
• Advanced/expert understanding of relevant clinical practice, standards and audits within identified clinical area.
• Prepared to undertake or hold a recognised non-medical prescribing qualification, if required
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area to advanced level of post-graduate diploma or equivalent knowledge /experiential learning
  
  

Desirable criteria

• A breadth of clinical and professional practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held
• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced/expert level
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
  
  

Skills & Competencies

Essential criteria

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills
  
  

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.