Clinical Lead - Mental Health Access and Brief Treatment Team

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role in developing our Community Mental Health Access and Brief Treatment Service. If you want to be part of a fast-paced team that makes a critical difference to someone on their journey to improve their mental health, this could be the role for you! Every day is different and requires the ability to work in partnership and a solutions-focused approach.

The service is currently developing and is in a period of transformation, so now is an exciting time to be joining and involved with the implementation and development of news ways of working.

Our Clinical Leads provide advice, clinical leadership, supervision and training to the MHAABTT team and are responsible for ensuring the consistent provision of high quality mental health care to people in community adult mental health settings.

The post holder will work as an integrated part of the senior leadership team to ensure the effective, efficient and sustained development of our service. The Clinical Lead will work closely with the Service Leads, Team Managers, Governance Team, Quality Lead and Operational Leads as well as our colleagues in Primary Care and Voluntary Sector services, to achieve high quality innovative care in the adult mental health settings with a focus on embedding the principles of reablement and trauma informed care.

Main duties of the job

Providing clinical leadership and supervision to the clinicians within the MHAABTT team, and working alongside the leadership team in developing and implementing policies, processes and ways of working.Providing induction and supervision to new members of the team.Working collaboratively with your colleagues to manage the referrals coming through to secondary mental health services via triage and initial assessment.You will be expected to work in partnership with GPs, other referring agencies and community mental health teams including Early Interventions in Psychosis, Home Treatment Team and Talking Therapies.

We can offer you:

• A supportive team environment where new ideas and innovation are welcomed, considered and acted on.
• Regular supervision and caseload management to help you balance your caseload
• Mandatory training program to maintain your core skills.
• Access to personalised training in line with a yearly appraisal & PDP. We want to develop your skills and expertise.
• We can offer opportunities to help you access CPD activities to develop your career further.
• Staff engagement program including quarterly ICA engagement days.
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Team away days to enable us to grow as a team and focus on our shared priorities.

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.