Job summary
An opportunity has arisen to work as a Clinical Lead within Maple Lodge. It is a purpose built 15 bed rehabilitation unit within the Boston area for people with enduring mental health problems and complex needs. Both informal and detained patients.
You will have the opportunity to participate and maintain high quality care within the ward environment to work alongside service users to aid in their recovery and transition back to independence.
This is a band 7 clinical leadership role, working in collaboration with the ward manager, and other team members within the multidisciplinary team. The post holder will provide professional nursing management, leadership and guidance, fostering effective relationships, expert clinical advice in relation to key dimensions of high quality health care.
If you are looking for rewarding and fulfilling role which is diverse with no two days being the same, then we look forward to hearing from you.
If you want to be part of our team and take advantage of this exciting opportunity, then we will be happy to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
To provide the overall clinical and managerial leadership of the Nursing and clinical team in the Adolescent Acute in-patient setting.
This position is both Clinical and Managerial with a team composition made up of Nursing, Allied Healthcare Professionals, Psychological therapy professionals, Administrative and Medical representation. As clinical lead you will provide the expert knowledge within areas of specialism in relation to young peoples mental health and support the clinical team to develop their roles and the provision of care within the Adolescent Acute in-patient setting.
Work jointly with the Ward Manager in managing the service including line management of staff, reporting for contract and auditing of service provision.
Be accountable for the leadership and management of the delivery of the clinical care of vulnerable children and adolescents in the in-patient unit, this includes ensuring improved physical health monitoring, care delivery and parity of esteem.
Provide leadership and work in partnership with service users, their carers' and colleagues in the adolescent acute in-patient setting.
Provide effective line management and clinical supervision joint with the Ward Manager of the clinical team within the the adolescent acute in-patient setting.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To manage and lead the team in the clinical delivery care.
The hours would be management days and clinical shifts including nights.
Demonstrate the ability to effectively influence the clinical dimensions of service development.Use specialist knowledge to deal effectively with newly encountered clinical situations.
Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour by linking them with evidence based treatment pathways.
Plan, implement, review, improve interventions and treatment pathways to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk with comprehensive Clinical Risk Formulation and care planning
To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team and community teams, ensuring appropriate clinical decision-making, with other professionals and agencies.
To support transitions of young people to adult services.
To adhere to N.M.C. or other professional codes of conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
To develop clinical practice having due regard tor the NICE Guidelines in respect of treatment for mental health disorders in children and adolescents.To provide support to the ward Manager for writing and providing evidence and reports for the NHS England contract.
To provide line management and where requested, clinical supervision to the clinical team and administrators.
Provide high standards of evidence based, clinical care in ones own practice and leadership in the teams practice.
Work flexibly according to service needs.
Contribute to, and where requested, lead on the development of service protocols.
Instigate and implement service developments, improvements and action plans (as required).
Key involvement in service development, participating in management discussions and decision making through attendance at management meetings.
Ensuring the implementation of up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place for all service users in line with local and national guidance/ legislation.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
Develop and deliver information to enhance professional awareness of issues related to the emotional, behavioural and mental needs of service users.To support the Ward Manager in monitoring performance and activity targets and ensure these are met and reporting exceptions.
Promote equality and Diversity and a supportive access/ admission to in-patient care.
Promote and support the participation of patients/service users and their carers in developing the in-patient service, information and guidelines through effective communication, consultation and to promote opportunities for service users and their families to contribute at all levels.
Support Ward Manager to develop systems to monitor and review the service (against national and local standards as appropriate) and use findings as a means of initiating and implementing change and ongoing improvement in services content, quality and delivery.
Attend and contribute (as appropriate) relevant regional and national contributing professional development activities to maintain up-to-date skills and knowledge in meeting the needs of the service.Delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery.
Ensure dissemination of relevant information (internal or external as appropriate) to the team.
Support the Ward manager to undertake regular review of the teams performance and compliance to national and local standards e.g. through audit
To support the Ward Manager to ensure that all staff within their team (including themselves) receives managerial and clinical supervision, appraisal and mandatory training in line with LPFTs policies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To manage and lead the team in the clinical delivery care.
The hours would be management days and clinical shifts including nights.
Demonstrate the ability to effectively influence the clinical dimensions of service development.Use specialist knowledge to deal effectively with newly encountered clinical situations.
Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognise mental illness and identify their related needs and circumstances; and enable them to understand, manage and where appropriate change their behaviour by linking them with evidence based treatment pathways.
Plan, implement, review, improve interventions and treatment pathways to meet peoples identified needs and manage their inherent risk with comprehensive Clinical Risk Formulation and care planning
To assess carers and families needs and develop, implement and review programmes of support for carers and families.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
To work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team and community teams, ensuring appropriate clinical decision-making, with other professionals and agencies.
To support transitions of young people to adult services.
To adhere to N.M.C. or other professional codes of conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
To develop clinical practice having due regard tor the NICE Guidelines in respect of treatment for mental health disorders in children and adolescents.To provide support to the ward Manager for writing and providing evidence and reports for the NHS England contract.
To provide line management and where requested, clinical supervision to the clinical team and administrators.
Provide high standards of evidence based, clinical care in ones own practice and leadership in the teams practice.
Work flexibly according to service needs.
Contribute to, and where requested, lead on the development of service protocols.
Instigate and implement service developments, improvements and action plans (as required).
Key involvement in service development, participating in management discussions and decision making through attendance at management meetings.
Ensuring the implementation of up to date agreed care plans, risk assessments and reviews are in place for all service users in line with local and national guidance/ legislation.
Protect people from abuse, neglect and harm.
Develop and deliver information to enhance professional awareness of issues related to the emotional, behavioural and mental needs of service users.To support the Ward Manager in monitoring performance and activity targets and ensure these are met and reporting exceptions.
Promote equality and Diversity and a supportive access/ admission to in-patient care.
Promote and support the participation of patients/service users and their carers in developing the in-patient service, information and guidelines through effective communication, consultation and to promote opportunities for service users and their families to contribute at all levels.
Support Ward Manager to develop systems to monitor and review the service (against national and local standards as appropriate) and use findings as a means of initiating and implementing change and ongoing improvement in services content, quality and delivery.
Attend and contribute (as appropriate) relevant regional and national contributing professional development activities to maintain up-to-date skills and knowledge in meeting the needs of the service.Delegate aspects of the role to other members of the team, whilst maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery.
Ensure dissemination of relevant information (internal or external as appropriate) to the team.
Support the Ward manager to undertake regular review of the teams performance and compliance to national and local standards e.g. through audit
To support the Ward Manager to ensure that all staff within their team (including themselves) receives managerial and clinical supervision, appraisal and mandatory training in line with LPFTs policies.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/diploma in mental health and social care or equivalent: 1st Level Registration (NMC,HPC)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
- Mentorship Module (degree level )
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working with young people with mental health needs. Or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills that are transferable to both the community/in-patient. Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
- Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
Desirable
- Evidence of involvement with research initiatives
- Distributed leadership modelling
Skills & Competences
Essential
- Excellent assessment and risk management skills Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users, carers and key stakeholders to improve outcomes.
- Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information
- Evidence of continued professional development Basic IT skills
Desirable
- Health Liaison Working collaboratively with other health and social care providers
- Budget management Data analysis Conflict resolution
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree/diploma in mental health and social care or equivalent: 1st Level Registration (NMC,HPC)
- Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice
- Mentorship Module (degree level )
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working with young people with mental health needs. Or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills that are transferable to both the community/in-patient. Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
- Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
- Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
Desirable
- Evidence of involvement with research initiatives
- Distributed leadership modelling
Skills & Competences
Essential
- Excellent assessment and risk management skills Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health
- Highly developed clinical reasoning skills
- Highly motivated & able to engage with service users, carers and key stakeholders to improve outcomes.
- Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers and staff, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the nature and effects of some information
- Evidence of continued professional development Basic IT skills
Desirable
- Health Liaison Working collaboratively with other health and social care providers
- Budget management Data analysis Conflict resolution
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
