Job summary
The primary function of the role is to provide leadership, management, and communication to and for the team, ensuring the delivery of efficient, effective, co-ordinated and responsive high-quality care to patients/clients.
Main duties of the job
Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team
Responsible for the delivery of the service within the team.
Work in partnership with other services/stakeholders etc., to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring appropriate delegation and delivery of patients/client care.
Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients/clients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Manage and Lead the CYP B and B Service. Merseycare currently delivers in Knowsley and Liverpool.
Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
Acts as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the team when managing complex and highly complex situations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Manage and Lead the CYP B and B Service. Merseycare currently delivers in Knowsley and Liverpool.
Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
Acts as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity.
Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the team when managing complex and highly complex situations.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent qualification
- Registration with relevant professional body
- V300 prescribing qualification
- Examination and Diagnosis qualification
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
Desirable
- First line management qualification.
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience in Children's services.
- Experience of successful multi-agency working
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues and an Understanding how other agencies work
- Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
- Excellent IT skills
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
Desirable
- Experience of management and clinical leadership
Skills
Essential
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to understand and analyse complex data.
- Risk assessment skills
- Self-management and motivation skills.
- Report writing skills.
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
- Excellent IT skills
Desirable
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent qualification
- Registration with relevant professional body
- V300 prescribing qualification
- Examination and Diagnosis qualification
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
Desirable
- First line management qualification.
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience in Children's services.
- Experience of successful multi-agency working
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues and an Understanding how other agencies work
- Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
- Excellent IT skills
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
Desirable
- Experience of management and clinical leadership
Skills
Essential
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to understand and analyse complex data.
- Risk assessment skills
- Self-management and motivation skills.
- Report writing skills.
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
- Excellent IT skills
Desirable
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
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).
