Responsibilities
The post holder will be responsible for clinical leadership of the Adapt Team, provide effective leadership for a multi‑disciplinary clinical team, and deliver high‑quality service within available resources.
The post holder will develop services that are comprehensive, flexible and promote a culture of service users and carers’ involvement at every stage of the care pathway.
Lead and manage a multi‑professional team with day‑to‑day clinical responsibility.
Provide effective clinical and operational working through leadership and management of resources.
Provide supervision, mentorship, and leadership for staff within the team.
Take lead in the overall clinical pathways of ADAPT service and support the team and locality manager to ensure quality and timely service delivery.
Coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on rolling out the Structured Clinical Management (SCM); a psychological intervention model to be adapted to our service.
* Management of referrals, assessment, and treatment.
* Performance monitoring and management.
* Line management and supervision of staff.
* Ensuring a culture of effective risk management in the team.
* Participate in recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decisions as designated by the Locality Manager.
* Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation.
* Respond to Safeguarding Adult alerts as appropriate.
* Ensure that there are relevant forums within clinical teams for the dissemination and embedding of learning points from complaints and serious untoward incidents.
* Ensure equality and diversity is considered in all aspects of the teams business.
* Promote and display support for the Trust’s key policies on Equality and Diversity and use of the recovery‑oriented approach for people with longer‑term problems.
* Ensure that job plans are developed, are reflective of service needs, and are regularly reviewed and adjusted to meet the demands of the service.
Qualifications
The post holder is expected to have considerable experience in Mental Health assessment, management, and clinical risk, and to have a good understanding and a high level of competence with therapeutic skills.
They must be responsive and flexible in their approach to working with adult and young people transitioning from CAMHS.
About Oxleas
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.
Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values.
Values
* We’re Kind
* We’re Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
Contact Details
* Name: Oluwatoyin Akinfolarin, Job title: Service line manager, Email: oluwatoyin.akinfolarin2@nhs.net, Telephone: 07880084623
* Name: Andrew Luces, Team Manager, Bromley ADAPT East, mobile: 07767 587249, email: a.luces@nhs.net
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