Job summary
Are you a dynamic leader with experience of managing and working within fast-paced services?
Do you enjoy the balance of operational management and senior clinical nursing leadership?
Do you have experience of working with autistic adults and adults with a learning disability who may have mental health needs?
We have a 2-year secondment or fixed-term post for a forward-thinking, dynamic senior nurse manager who would like to embrace this opportunity as Clinical Service Manager, within our LDA Enhanced Support & Liaison Service.
Our Enhanced Support and Liaison Service went live in 2024, it is a county wide, 7 day per week service which functions as part of a multi-agency pathway, working with service users, providers, carers, families, social care, and health partners to enable people with a learning disability and/or autism in Lincolnshire to receive appropriate care in the right place at the right time.
LDA Enhanced Support & Liaison Service offers the following levels of support:
Level 1 - Generic support
Level 2 - Patient Specific Support
Level 3 - Enhanced Patient Specific
Within the levels of intervention and support offered there are different pathways that an individual might access. These include:
o Community Liaison Pathways
o Inpatient/discharge Pathway
o Enhanced and intensive community Intervention & Support
It is the inpatient pathway that this Specialist Liaison Practitioner will be focused on.
Main duties of the job
You will provide direct operational management to The Enhanced Support and Liaison Service (ESLS).
Key tasks include:
o Be a visible and accessible leader, who will provide key senior clinical nursing leadership across the pathways, having oversight that those pathways are effective and efficient.
Managing community based activity in line with locally set targets
o Managing capacity to ensure that clinical priorities and waiting time targets are met through effective use of available resources.
o Leading service modernisation projects with multidisciplinary teams.
o Managing HR processes within designated services.
o Leading on clinical governance actions such as complaint/incident investigations in conjunction with the Quality Assurance Lead.
o To provide effective team leadership that will facilitate staff in ensuring that strong links with other providers of community/inpatient services are maintained and that staff utilise all available resources to meet the identified needs of individual patients.
o To advise the senior management team on issues regarding finances, resources and staff.
o To analyse data and recommend service improvements on the back of data analysis.
o Critically analyse statistical information in collaboration with the Business Manager and clinical colleagues to ensure reliability, accuracy and consistency.
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 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, 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. 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 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.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered RNLD or RMN
- Recognised Masters qualification (or equivalent experience)
- Evidence of continued professional development and training in management
- Portfolio of relevant post qualification CPD including Autism and/or Learning Disability
Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse and interpret of various information, understanding of various research design methodologies
- Able to communicate effectively at a both a written and oral level across a number of professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of appropriate clinical legislation in Autism and/or Learning Disability
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Be able to demonstrate and promote effective multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team building and working
- Negotiation and liaison skills
- High level of experience in the fields of Autism and/or Learning Disability
- Evidence of leadership and experience in innovation
- Ability to motivate others and stimulate best practice development
- Excellent knowledge of current policy, guidance and legislation relating to autism and/or Learning Disability
- Ability to implement strategic decisions into operational practice
- Ability to lead the teams to strive for continuous improvement in the quality of patient care
- Ability to manage services within local service line budgets
- IT skills - email, word, excel, clinical systems
- Ability to analyse and interpret data and/or information
- Empathetic and psychologically minded
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with autistic adults and/or Learning Disability
- Previous experience of team leadership and leading service development
- Experience of managing services
- Experience and expertise in of assessing and managing complex caseloads
- Experience of managing services
- Experience and expertise in of assessing and managing complex caseloads
- Experience of effective multi-disciplinary/agency working and established interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Experience in using research evaluation / audit tools and demonstrating need
- Experience of managing and clinically supervising others
- Wide range of clinical experience
- Experience of working within the mental health urgent care pathway, or intensive support teams
Desirable
- Experience of LDA national policy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered RNLD or RMN
- Recognised Masters qualification (or equivalent experience)
- Evidence of continued professional development and training in management
- Portfolio of relevant post qualification CPD including Autism and/or Learning Disability
Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse and interpret of various information, understanding of various research design methodologies
- Able to communicate effectively at a both a written and oral level across a number of professional and non-professional groups
- Knowledge of appropriate clinical legislation in Autism and/or Learning Disability
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Be able to demonstrate and promote effective multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team building and working
- Negotiation and liaison skills
- High level of experience in the fields of Autism and/or Learning Disability
- Evidence of leadership and experience in innovation
- Ability to motivate others and stimulate best practice development
- Excellent knowledge of current policy, guidance and legislation relating to autism and/or Learning Disability
- Ability to implement strategic decisions into operational practice
- Ability to lead the teams to strive for continuous improvement in the quality of patient care
- Ability to manage services within local service line budgets
- IT skills - email, word, excel, clinical systems
- Ability to analyse and interpret data and/or information
- Empathetic and psychologically minded
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with autistic adults and/or Learning Disability
- Previous experience of team leadership and leading service development
- Experience of managing services
- Experience and expertise in of assessing and managing complex caseloads
- Experience of managing services
- Experience and expertise in of assessing and managing complex caseloads
- Experience of effective multi-disciplinary/agency working and established interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Experience in using research evaluation / audit tools and demonstrating need
- Experience of managing and clinically supervising others
- Wide range of clinical experience
- Experience of working within the mental health urgent care pathway, or intensive support teams
Desirable
- Experience of LDA national policy
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Enhanced Support and Liaison Service, Unit 1, St George's
Long Leys Road
Lincoln
LN1 1FS
Employer's website
https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
