Practice Lead (ECRS)

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

Additional Responsibilities

• The Clinical lead will hold a portfolio of responsibilities these will include ensuring the quality and triangulation of provider compliance assessment tools and responsibility for updating and monitoring risk registers
• They will also take responsibility for key practice development projects across the directorate
• They will also take responsibility for key practice development projects across the directorate
• The Clinical Lead will hold a portfolio based on individual job planning e.g. Safeguarding. Complaints and quality assurance

Personal and professional qualities

• Transformative leadership skills
• Passion and enthusiasm for both evidenced and values based practice
• Compassionate leader
• Strong role model
• Confidence
• Willingness to learn and pass on knowledge
• Highly articulate & effective communicator

Communication and Working Relationship Skills

• To work collaboratively with internal stakeholders
• Work closely with key external stakeholders including, Police, Social Services provision, Housing, Voluntary and non-statutory agencies and a wider Health and Social Care Community ensuring that people aged 18 and above, who use our services are signposted appropriately through the care pathway.
• Present information, some of which may be contentious, to staff groups, service user groups, carers groups and other stakeholders using a range of techniques and media.
• Co-ordinate and investigate complaints and clinical practice performance issues; taking action as necessary ensuring that any clinical lessons learned are identified and disseminated to teams.
• Ensure that any learning from incidents and PSIRF is identified, disseminated and where necessary put into practice.
• Communicate in a considerate and purposeful way to maintain relationships and achieve goals.
• Communicate ideas and principles relevant to clinical practice to a range of audiences.
• Ability to persuade, use data and make forceful argument.

Analytical and Judgemental Skills

• Role model clinical leadership
• Practice in a way that actively minimises dependency and promotes recovery
• Communicate information in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for users of services
• Promote a duty of care to users of services, encompassing safe and competent care
• Take personal accountability for own practice, answerable for actions and omissions, regardless of advice or directions from another professional
• Remaining professionally competent by participating in own and others clinical supervision
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills, not only relating to the care of users of services, but also in-depth knowledge of the roles and functions of other professionals across services
• Establish and maintain internal clinical audits and develop a research element for the service
• Produce evaluation data and reports in a timely manner
• Able to identify, gather and produce information that improves understanding
• Able to produce reports that use data and narrative descriptions
• Ensure that biopsychosocial assessments and complex risk assessments have been completed as per DPT Policy & Provider compliance

Planning and Organisational Skills

• Coordinate and participate in multi-agency forums ensuring that the development and delivery of integrated local services is in line with local need
• Ensure that service delivery activity is delivered in accordance with agreed quality and performance standards within the overarching contract and service level agreements
• Ensure that services provide and facilitate education and learning from experience
• Work constructively with the multi-disciplinary team
• Monitor and oversee clinical practice within the provider framework
• Ensure that governance and assurance systems are in place for care pathways/clinical practice, providing expert professional advice with regards to clinical care, incidents, and complaints
• Ensure that services are delivered by practitioners with the appropriate knowledge, skills, and competencies
• Coordination of multi-disciplinary team working and engagement in service delivery in line with practice standards
• Ensuring the safety and effectiveness of the service through the implementation of effective risk management, governance, and assurance systems
• Act as a role model
• Monitor and improve quality in line with NICE guidance
• Contribute to the ongoing operation and development of the service, data monitoring in the context of service evaluation
• Promotion of the service locally and nationally as appropriate

Responsibility for Patient/Client Care, Treatment and Therapy

• Promote, develop and role model high standards of clinical care
• Ensure a holistic approach to assessment, care, and treatment, including physical health needs
• Ensure effective care pathways are in place for transition between mental health and other services
• Work closely with other teams within the Trust coupled with the Voluntary, Statutory, and independent sectors, implementing key success criteria for NICE regarding diagnosis, treatment, and management plans
• Participate in Safeguarding
• Provide expert advice regarding complex cases
• Responsible for maintaining Clinical Governance Standards
• Possess enhanced clinical skills
• The post holder has responsibility to report and/or ensure a clean environment for care and ensuring infection prevention and control guidelines are followed
• Ensure documentation is in line with Trust Policy and professional registration

Responsibility for Policy and Service Development Implementation

• Support and negotiate required changes in practice to meet on-going service developments
• Develop audit and quality improvement programmes and maintain these
• Participate in the maintenance of current services and future developments within the locality, initiating service developments and projects
• Responsible for the development and monitoring of the assigned care pathway quality and improvement plans; ensuring all clinical effectiveness systems are embedded and sustainable
• Participate in, and lead as required on the development, implementation, and evaluation of strategies/clinical policies to ensure the service continues to evolve to meet the needs of people who use services
• Participate fully in quality assurance initiatives, with particular emphasis on a person first approach
• The post holder will initiate and participate in audit/research projects associated with the work of the service
• Promote the NHS programme; right person has the right care, in the right place, at the right time, making the best use of available resources

Responsibility for Finance, Equipment and Other Resources

• Ensure that care is provided within resources
• Ensure that workforce development, training and CPD opportunities are provided within the agreed workforce development pla.
• Authorised signatory for small cash/financial payments such as travel expense claims, and additional hours for members of the team

Responsibility for Human Resources, e.g. Supervision, Training, HR Advice and Management

• Provide clinical leadership for a team of staff ensuring that they operate within policies and procedures
• Recruit and select staff within the team according to resource requirements
• Promote reflective recovery focused practice
• At all times follow Codes of Professional Conduct,ensuring all staff within sphere of responsibility also adhere to codes of conduct
• Supervise, monitor and appraise the performance of qualified and unqualified staff within sphere of responsibility
• Advance and improve clinical practice through teaching, training and supervision
• Cross cover for B7 colleagues including line management responsibilities as negotiated and necessary

Responsibility for Information Resources and Administrative Duties

• Maintain records of supervision for both self and others
• Maintain and disseminate appropriately data relating to work undertaken e.g. research and audit results

Responsibility for Research and Development

• Undertake programmes of audit and research within the team and implement the findings

Freedom to Act

• To lead on the formulation of robust care pathway plans without supervision, which may include a prompt referral to secondary mental health services, social, statutory and voluntary services
• As a lone worker, you will be required to make autonomous clinical decisions in relation to care pathways of complex mental health problems
• To be responsible and accountable for clinical decisions that affect the care and treatment of individuals and groups of people
• Develop your own role and the roles of others
• Chair meetings, such as Safeguarding S42, quarterly Contract Review Meetings, ECRS Referral meetings, reflective practice group

Any Other Specific Tasks Required

• Monitor standards and ensure Trust policy compliance including activity data, manual and electronic record keeping
• Management skills are required to undertake this function effectively, implementing, evaluating and documentation of specialist care
• Change to annual review as above Responsible for ensuring the quality and triangulation of the CQC guidance checklist, any quality improvement plans and managing the service risk register
• Responsible for any key practice development projects
• To be part of the IPP Duty Rota

Planning and Organisational Skills

Essential

• Supervisory skills
• Ability to work flexibly

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of key areas of professional mental health practice.
• Specialist knowledge of mental health disorders.
• Knowledge of clinical risk assessment.
• Application of teaching theory into practice.
• Ability to undertake bio-psycho-social assessment and formulating, robust care pathways.
• Higher level communication skills, both written and oral
• Sufficient clinical and operational knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on an analysis of complex presenting problems.
• Management and organisational skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service.
• Knowledge of the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity and Deprivation of Liberty.
• Information Technology skills.

Communication and Working Relationship Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with large groups who may be antagonistic and/or distressed. This will apply to persons who use the service and their carers/relatives and professional staff groups
• Able to produce well written reports
• Ability to communicate complex information across multi-agency teams
• Ability to support junior staff: professionally and academically, promoting their personal growth and developing their competencies

Experience

Essential

• Significant post qualifying work, including community and inpatient mental health
• Risk assessment/management
• Clinical leadership
• Ability to interpret research and apply to practice
• 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
• Transformational work

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential

• Able to identify and own problems and get involved in the solutions
• Ability to assess and manage all levels of risk
• Excellent clinical assessment skills
• Ability to manage change in a positive manner

Qualifications

Essential

• A professional mental health qualification to degree level or equivalent. Post Graduate qualification relevant to specialism e.g. CBT, NMP, DBT, etc.
• Training to level 3 in Safeguarding adults & children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff
• Evidence of commitment to life-long learning and continuing professional development
• Leadership or quality improvement qualification

Desirable

• Management qualification

Other

Essential

• Ability to be mobile across a geographical area to meet the requirements of the role
• Integrity, a compassionate leader, a role model
• Goal and outcome-based approach to flexibly manage change in a positive way

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).