*Internal MPFT Applicants Only* MHL Quality Lead Secondment

Job summary

The Mental Health Liaison Team at Princess Royal Hospital, Telford are offering an internal secondment opportunity for a Band 7 Quality Lead for one day per week. We are a hardworking, multi skilled team who provide assessment and care to people who are in Princess Royal Hospital and experiencing an acute mental health crisis .

The role of Clinical/Quality lead is to work closely with the Operational lead to ensure the best quality of care is delivered 24hrs a day, 7 days a week. The team is based in Princess Royal Hospital we already have strong relationships with Police, EDT , The Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team and 3rd sector partners. We would expect the successful applicant to be able to support the team to deliver high quality care through supervision, role modelling, clinical reviews and feedback from audits. You will have excellent leadership and organisational skills with the ability to inform and drive the quality of care forwards.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a 1 hour response to the A+E department when referrals are made for people who have attended and require mental health support and assessment.

  To provide a 24 hr response to the wards in the hospital for people who have been admitted and need support and assessment of their mental health.

  To support colleagues within the general hospital in their education and learning about mental health presentations and the role of the Liaison Mental Health Team.

• To undertake expert assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for a specific group of service users.
• To supervise and teach service users and carers, professionals from the multi-disciplinary teams, qualified and unqualified staff and the general public
• To work in partnership with service users, carers and other agencies to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, milage paid at business rate s
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.