Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust are delighted to be recruiting for a Lead Clinician position within our Early Intervention in Psychosis Services in Thanet.
This position will be part of the senior clinical leadership team, providing evidence-based, high-quality care to the population we serve.
We are looking for a passionate and motivated clinician with suitable leadership experience. The successful candidate will provide day-to-day clinical oversight of the team to ensure delivery of a safe and effective service.
The post-holder will work closely with the operational team manager and other clinical leads to drive performance and achieve consistently high standards of care.
The post-holder will hold clinical cases as required and support other members of the team with the most complex and risky patients.
Main duties of the job
Overall the role will entail working within the leadership team to ensure robust oversight of all aspects of care delivery. The post-holder will:
* Act as a role model to support/guide the team deliver high quality standards of care, be responsive to service demands and dynamic in supporting the team with complex and challenging situations.
* Demonstrate excellent communication skills, work well within the leadership team to prioritise daily clinical demands/needs of service, whilst supporting the clinical team.
* Provide clinical advice and supervision (both individual and group supervision) and contribute to individuals appraisals.
* Provide in-house training to team and wider teams/services when needed.
* Support and embed clinical standards within the team.
* Lead/support and contribute to monitoring team's clinical performance via clinical audits and work in conjunction with Team Manager to support actions to improve the quality and performance of the service and outcomes for services users.
* Show excellent organisational, time management and delegation skills to work in an area of changing priorities.
* Be a cohesive member of the Leadership Team, work flexibly and support the Team Manager where needed, offer expertise and experience to develop new staff and support in retention and wellbeing of the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent experience
* Registered Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Social Worker
Experience
* Minimum of 5 years relevant experience and 3 years in Community setting
* Clinical assessment of physical, psychological and social care
* Experience of working with people with psychosis
* Experience of working with children and young people
* Experience of working with neurodiversity
Skills
* Problem solving/solution focussed
* Ability to prioritise key tasks and target intervention
* Crisis resolution and management skills
Knowledge
* Excellent knowledge and skills in assessing risk and risk formulation
* EIP standards, policies and best practice
* Implementation of the Recovery Model and Social Inclusion
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.
£49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum pro rata
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