Job summary
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for an experienced, dynamic, and highly motivated professional to join our Teignbridge Older Peoples Community Mental Health Team as a Clinical Practice Lead.
This team is dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate care for individuals aged 65 and over. We deliver comprehensive assessment and treatment for those experiencing functional mental health difficulties, alongside specialist assessment and post-diagnostic support to help people live well with organic brain disorders such as dementia.
As Clinical Practice Lead, you will play a vital role within our multidisciplinary leadership teamdriving clinical excellence, supporting colleagues, and helping to shape the future of our service.
Main duties of the job
As Clinical Practice Lead, you will provide expert clinical guidance, promote evidence-based practice, and help shape high-quality assessment and treatment pathways for older adults experiencing functional mental health conditions, as well as those living with organic brain disorders such as dementia.
You will play a key role in driving service development, supporting colleagues, and enhancing the overall experience and outcomes for the people and families.
Main duties as Clinical Practice Lead include:
Providing clinical leadership and expert guidance to the multidisciplinary team.
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Supporting high-quality assessment, formulation, and treatment planning for older adults with functional mental health needs and dementia.
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Promoting evidence-based practice and contribute to ongoing service development and improvement.
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Offering clinical supervision, support, and professional development to team members.
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Working collaboratively with service users, carers, and partner agencies to ensure coordinated, person-centred care.
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Contributing to clinical governance activities, including quality assurance, audit, and risk management.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description:
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification which will provide further information on this role.
- The Community Practice Leader is responsible for ensuring
compliance with quality and safety standards within their assigned teams. They
will ensure that all individuals receiving care and treatment from OPMH
services do so in line with Trust strategic values.
- The key responsibilities of this role are as follows:
- Empower people who use the service to make choices and
decisions around their care and treatment
- Champion dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect
- Prioritise demand and allocate/delegate accordingly
- Lone working at times
- Quality improvement and ensuring high standards of clinical
effectiveness
- Audits
- Compliance with CQC standards
- Managing complaints and compliments
- Learning from experience and support a safe service by
ensuring incidents are reported
- Supporting learners to have a meaningful placement
experience
- Advanced clinical delivery and leading others in their
clinical practice through training, supervision, coaching and mentoring
- Managing a clinical complex caseload
- Having a sound knowledge and experience in the Dementia
Strategy and embedding this within a community framework.
- Making clinical triage decision on receipt of internal and
external referrals
- Being part of the core leadership team within your allocated
team.
- Chairing meetings, including clinical and safeguarding
- Clinical knowledge and experience of comorbidities and
frailty which affect care and treatment associated when treating a mental
health condition.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job description:
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification which will provide further information on this role.
- The Community Practice Leader is responsible for ensuring
compliance with quality and safety standards within their assigned teams. They
will ensure that all individuals receiving care and treatment from OPMH
services do so in line with Trust strategic values.
- The key responsibilities of this role are as follows:
- Empower people who use the service to make choices and
decisions around their care and treatment
- Champion dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect
- Prioritise demand and allocate/delegate accordingly
- Lone working at times
- Quality improvement and ensuring high standards of clinical
effectiveness
- Audits
- Compliance with CQC standards
- Managing complaints and compliments
- Learning from experience and support a safe service by
ensuring incidents are reported
- Supporting learners to have a meaningful placement
experience
- Advanced clinical delivery and leading others in their
clinical practice through training, supervision, coaching and mentoring
- Managing a clinical complex caseload
- Having a sound knowledge and experience in the Dementia
Strategy and embedding this within a community framework.
- Making clinical triage decision on receipt of internal and
external referrals
- Being part of the core leadership team within your allocated
team.
- Chairing meetings, including clinical and safeguarding
- Clinical knowledge and experience of comorbidities and
frailty which affect care and treatment associated when treating a mental
health condition.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A professional mental health qualification to degree level or equivalent Post Graduate qualification relevant to specialism eg CBT, NMP, DBT, etc.
- Evidence of commitment to life-long learning and continuing professional development
- Leadership or quality improvement qualification
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff
Experience
Essential
- 5 years post qualifying work, including community and inpatient mental health
- Risk assessment/management
- Clinical leadership
- Other relevant post registration experience
- Understanding of research principles
- Teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff
- Experience of working in a senior or advanced clinical role
Desirable
- Ability to interpret research and apply to practice
- Transformational work
- Experience of working in Older peoples mental health
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A professional mental health qualification to degree level or equivalent Post Graduate qualification relevant to specialism eg CBT, NMP, DBT, etc.
- Evidence of commitment to life-long learning and continuing professional development
- Leadership or quality improvement qualification
Desirable
- Management qualification
- Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff
Experience
Essential
- 5 years post qualifying work, including community and inpatient mental health
- Risk assessment/management
- Clinical leadership
- Other relevant post registration experience
- Understanding of research principles
- Teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff
- Experience of working in a senior or advanced clinical role
Desirable
- Ability to interpret research and apply to practice
- Transformational work
- Experience of working in Older peoples mental health
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).
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