Job summary
hours per week. Agile/Hybrid working.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Practice Lead within the Integrated Learning Disability team with specialist interest in Mental health.
This is a key role within the Learning Disabilities Team and emphasis will be placed upon co-ordinated community based proactive and preventative health and social care interventions which are person centred and focused on our vision. We empower people with a learning disability to have a good quality of life and value ourselves and the people we support
Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility
Main duties of the job
Supporting the team to meet CQC standards,
Supporting the CLDT to achieve their performancetargets.
Contributing to the Senior Leadership Meetingspromoting positive inter-disciplinary relationships and supporting the cultureof psychological safety and positive continuous learning/developmentopportunities within the team
Providing clinical leadership and advice to staff ensuringthe flow of service users through the system and promoting implementation ofevidence based practice in line with NICE guidelines. This will involve bothdirect and indirect clinical work with staff and service users, including consultation,coaching, live supervision and caseload supervision. The post holder willmanage a reduced complex clinical caseload.
The implementation of new initiatives across theservice, leading the change management process, with consideration to the effectivemanagement and allocation of resources. This will include workforce planning,development of workforce competencies and training packages to support this asrequired.
Implementing the service audit plan: leading onaudits and the development of action plans to ensure adherence to targets, tomaintain effective safe practice and high quality care across the service.
Leading on patient safety
Representing the teams and organisation in multiagency forums and meetings as required.
Deputising for the Senior Clinical Lead &Operational Manager when required
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise providing integrated health & social care services for people across Plymouth, South Hams & West Devon, as well as some specialist services for people living in parts of Devon & Cornwall. With teams in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, health & wellbeing hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience, we always value being kind, respectful, inclusive, ambitious, responsible and collaborative. Transforming services to make them sustainable, ensuring that we value, support & empower each other.
We are committed to involving the people we care for, families & carers in everything that we do, working towards co-production where we can. Helping us to deliver the right care for people, in the right place & at the right time. By putting people at the centre of what we do, we ensure to support people to lead, healthy independent lives & be the very best at helping people to live well.
Valuing our employees making an investment in their development a priority. We offer:
Protected CPD time for registered staff
Various development pathways and ongoing regular training packages for all staff
Leadership & mentoring programmes
Access & funding for training including Care Certificate, Assistant Practitioners Course & Scholarship Into Nurse Training
A Robust Preceptorship
A bespoke induction programme
Existing members of the NHS Pension Scheme can continue their membership when they join the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Service Design and Improvement
To support the implementation ofService developments including the implementation and monitoring of theassigned care pathway quality and improvement plans. The post-holder, inconjunction with relevant others, will ensure that clinical effectivenesssystems are embedded and sustainable (based on audit and evidence based care)
Fully participate in qualityassurance initiatives and advances.
Demonstrate the ability to engagewith different stakeholders including medical staffing in developing theservice
Service Delivery and Resource Management
Ensure that governance and assurancesystems are in place for care pathways/clinical teams
The post holder will provide expertprofessional advice with regard to issues that may adversely affect clinicalcare including staffing and resource issues.
The post holder will offer adviceregarding team performance in relation to incidents and complaints
Ensure that services are deliveredby practitioners with the appropriate knowledge, skills and competencies,identifying training needs and providing opportunities for development.
In conjunction with the SeniorClinical Lead & Operational Manager, ensure that care is provided withinthe service resource.
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Practice Quality and Workforce Development
Take the lead, in consultation withthe Senior Clinical Lead & Operational Manager, in being responsible for thecoordination of multi-disciplinary team working and engagement in servicedelivery in line with practice standards
Ensuring the safety andeffectiveness of the service through the implementation of effective riskmanagement, governance and assurance systems
Support the Senior Clinical Lead& Operational Management Team in the development of the workforce.
Thepost-holder will act as a role model in providing a service for people with learningdisabilities for all staff within the CLDT and other stakeholders.
Thepost-holder will help monitor and improve quality through the following:
- Team compliance to national guidelinesincluding NICE guidelines through audit and other means
- Developing care pathways which improveclinical care
Line Management/Clinical SupervisionResponsibility
Thepost-holder will work with the Team Manager to deliver effective caseload andline management supervision to the team
Thepost-holder will ensure that the team access Practice supervision andContinuous Professional Development
Thepost-holder will provide appropriate cross-cover as required for other Band 7Leads within the service and for the Senior Clinical Lead & OperationalManager
PersonalProfessional Duties
Role modelclinical leadership
Practice in away that actively minimises dependency and promotes recovery.
Communicateinformation in a way that makes it relevant and understandable for serviceusers and carers, working to the principles of the functions policyimplementation guidelines and practice in line with the standards and valuesset out in them.
Ensure a dutyof care to service users who are entitled to receive safe and competentcare. The service users wishes,feelings, values and beliefs should be taken into consideration as well as theviews of the people close to them.
Take personalaccountability for your own practice.This means that you are answerable for your actions and omissions,regardless of advice or directions from another professional.
Ensure thatyou remain professionally competent by participating in your own and othersclinical supervision.
Demonstrate specialist knowledge and skills, notonly relating to the care of mental health patients, but also in depthknowledge of the roles and functions of other professionals across theservices. This may be enhanced by arelevant qualification at an appropriate level.
Communication and Relationship Skills
ThePractice Leads along with the Senior Clinical Lead & Operational Managerwill provide high quality mental health services to eligible patients through amulti-disciplinary team of registered professionals and medical staffing inconjunction with the VCSE. The post holder will ensure that services areprovided within National, Local and practice guidelines so that:
Quality of life for the people most inneed is maintained and improved.
All services are provided effectivelyand efficiently within current national direction and relevant legislation, toinclude the protection of vulnerable Adults and Children.
Detailedconfident verbal information sharing, within the Team or the widermulti-disciplinary Team, which includes Primary Care.
Detailedconfident verbal information sharing on behalf of the Organisation to and fromPolice and other agencies where appropriate with regard to matters of risk,mental ill health, risk, and as when appropriate.
Abilityto appropriately communicate information whilst negotiating positive changes ornew service developments.
Confidentin managing conflict between individuals when required.
Abilityto negotiate a positive outcome from complaint investigations.
Theability to receive information, analyse and formulating professionaljudgements.
Attendand represent the teams view in meetings, Child Protection, AdultProtection, Mental Health Review Tribunals, CPA reviews.
Attendand participate in various forums/steering groups within Adult Mental Healthand the wider health community
Elicitinformation from the patient and work with them to advocate on their behalf.
Abilityto communicate clearly and effectively over the telephone within the boundariesof confidentiality.
Maintainaccurate, timely paper and electronic records. Ensure they are kept safely inaccordance with Organisation policies, including the Data Protection Act andthe Organisation Confidentiality Policy.
Thepost holder must demonstrate a positive attitude to mental health attending topatients with respect and courtesy.
Thepost holder will ensure that professional boundaries are always adhered to
Directlyresponsible for the collaboration and the planning of individual care withpatient, carer, negotiation with other teams and services to provide a seamlessservice to users and carers.
Mustbe confident in communicating with people who are experiencing mental healthdifficulties when English is not their first language using Organisationapproved interpreters/services.
Toattend and participate in the monthly Locality business and performancemeetings.
Knowledge,Training and Experience
Thepost holder will be responsible for updating their own practice, knowledge andskills within their sphere of practice including Organisation mandatorytraining.
Expertknowledge of working within a Mental Health team, and/or other relevantexperience that is directly transferable to a CLDT.
Knowledgeof Policy and Legislation.
Knowledgeof Mental Health and Mental Health Service delivery.
Knowledgeof the current drivers in the CLDT current service redesign, Primary CareMental Health Team and First Response service
Adhereto Policy and Legislation relating to Mental Health, Mental Health Act1983, Mental Capacity Act, Equal Opportunity Law, Disability DiscriminationAct, Human Rights Act, Care Programme Approach and Clinical Governance.
Analyticaland Judgement Skills
Thepost holder will provide mental health care and other interventions in thesetting most appropriate to meet the patients needs.
Abilityto match patient need with available skills and resources.
Emergencyjudgements and clinical decision making as team lead.
Supervision,advice, guidance to others about complex individuals/situations.
Toreceive information and balance risk to patient and organisation, formulatingplans accordingly and communication to the wider health community.
Investigatingcomplaints and reviewing untoward incidents and serious incidents, producingchronology of events, time lines, gaining witness statements, producing report,recommendations and action plans for improvements.
Supportthe Senior Clinical Lead & Operational Manager in the organisation of therotas, ensuring that appropriate skill mix is available and is the most costeffective use of the resources available.
12 Clinical Responsibilities
Thepost holder is accountable for the direct patient care provided by the CLDT atall times. .
Wherenecessary the post holder will take a lead in assessments.
Workas part of the team in a clinical capacity where appropriate
Takea lead role in supporting the team in the identification of risk and theformulation of risk management plans.
Takea lead role in clinical decision-making, including maintaining the safety ofpatients, staff and the public in challenging, potentially violent situationsensuring that communication of decisions is circulated to other agencies andaction plans followed. Always ensuring the Senior Managers and Directors arebriefed as and when required.
Ensurethat the team plan aftercare, making appropriate agreed referrals for longerterm treatment.
Provideeducation to patients and Carers to enhance their knowledge, therefore,improving longer term concordance.
Provideeducation to patients and Carers in line with current policy and good practiceguidelines.
PromoteRECOVERY within the service and the services that interface with it.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
1. At least 3 years-experience in a senior clinical role with experience of managing others.
2. Multi-disciplinary team working
3. Evidence of transferable clinical, risk management and managerial skills at a senior level
4. Extensive Clinical experience in Mental Health care, crisis management and positive risk taking
Desirable
5. Senior management experience
6. Experience of managing a high level of risk
7. Performance management
8. Experience of implementing competencies and essential training for a team
Knowledge
Essential
9. Extensive professional knowledge acquired through clinical practice in a Community Health setting, underpinned by training at degree level/diploma level specialist training or equivalent experience.
10. Knowledge of the impact of crisis on mental and physical health difficulties
11. Evidence based practice.
12. Mental Health Act 1983
13. Good knowledge of current NHS and Social Care Policy
14. Evidence of CPD
15. Understanding of the Community Mental Health Framework
16. Understand the Principles of Governance, particularly in relation to their Service area
17. Knowledge of COP and Dols processs
Desirable
18. To be fully aware of and cascade current changes relating to Government Legislation ( Transforming Community Services).
19. CHC
Skills
Essential
20. Evidence of transferable Leadership and Operational Management skills
21. Skills in Managing Teams including management of HR processes.
22. Teaching, Coaching and supervision skills
23. Assessment, Risk Assessment & Care Planning of acutely Psychiatrically ill patients
24. Crisis management skills
25. Change management skills
26. Motivation skills
27. Complex clinical decision making skills
28. Facilitation and influencing skills
29. Good time management
30. Demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills
31. Must have self-confidence to challenge traditional practice and the persistence to address difficult enduring issues
32. Excellent organisational skills
Desirable
33. Accomplished Chair Person for meetings
34. Able to use Organisational IT systems
35. Delivery of training sessions such as Turbo-teach
Qualifications
Essential
36. Registered Nurse, Social Worker or AHP (with a minimum of 3 years post qualifying experience in Secondary Health Service, 18 months of which in a community setting)
37. Post graduate diploma / degree level study related to health/social care or equivalent worked experience relevant to the role
Desirable
38. Management qualifications
39. Leadership Training/qualifications