Job summary
An exciting opportunity hasarisen within the Totnes and South Hams Core Mental Health Team for a Band 7 Clinical Practice Lead to work alongside the existing leadership team for hours per week (
We are looking for anenthusiastic and experienced clinician to join an established and settled teamof highly skilled staff.
The successful applicant would beexpected to work across the Totnes and South Hams area. The team base is Leatside Surgery, Totnes.
We welcome telephone enquiriesabout the post and are happy to arrange a visit to the team prior to the day ofthe interview.
Main duties of the job
The key responsibilities of this role are as follows:
1. Promote a recovery model that empowers users of services to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their care and treatment.
2. Champion dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect
3. Prioritise demand and allocate/delegate accordingly
4. Work flexibly across a range of sites - regular and frequent travel from base to and between settings.
5. Lone working at times
6. Quality improvement and audit
7. Compliance with CQC standards
8. Managing complaints and compliments
9. Learning from experience
10. Practice education
11. Advanced clinical delivery and leading others in their clinical practice through training, supervision, coaching and mentoring
12. Applying quality improvement methodology to solve service delivery problems with qualified solutions
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
The Community Practice Leader is responsible for ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards within their assigned clinical teams. They will ensure that all individuals receiving care and treatment from DPT services do so in line with Trust strategic objectives (safe, timely, personalised, sustainable and recovery focused) and are safeguarded from any harm.
Please refer to the full Job Description and Person specification attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
13. A professional mental health qualification to degree level or equivalent Post Graduate qualification relevant to specialism eg CBT, NMP, DBT, etc.
14. Evidence of commitment to life-long learning and continuing professional development
15. Leadership or quality improvement qualification (or equivalent experience)
Desirable
16. Management qualification
17. Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
18. 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
19. Able to produce well written reports
20. Ability to communicate complex information across multi-agency teams
21. Ability to support junior staff: professionally and academically, promoting their personal growth and developing their competencies
22. Ability to develop a healthy culture of team working
23. Able to engage and communicate with confidence
Experience
Essential
24. 5 years post qualifying work, including community and inpatient mental health
25. Risk assessment/management
26. Ability to interpret research and apply to practice
27. Other relevant post registration experience
28. Understanding of research principles
29. Teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff
30. Experience of working in a senior or advanced clinical role
Desirable
31. Clinical leadership
32. Transformational work