Location: Paignton, TQ3 2DW
Salary: £46148.00 to £52809.00
Date posted: 30th May 2025
Closing date: 15th June 2025
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Job Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a clinical practice lead, based at Chadwell Centre, Paignton working 30 hours per week in the Older Adults community mental health team.
You will be part of the core leadership team.
You will be responsible for overseeing and supporting staff with providing high quality community care for older adults.
You will use your skills and experience to deliver person centred, personalised care which inspires hope and recovery.
You will play a key role in multidisciplinary team working and multiple agencies on a daily basis.
You will lead team members in clinical practice through training, supervision, coaching and mentoring. You will lead the team with embedding clinically effective evidenced based practice.
Main duties of the job
You will carry a small caseload of clients.
To lead on referral triage and allocation decisions.
To be available when required to offer support and advice to clinical staff and able to offer support to duty and in urgent /complex situations.
To support the team with completing complex assessments.
To offer support to clinical staff by offering joint visits to assist in risk formulations and care planning for complex cases.
You will support with identifying team training needs, performance and organise and implement delivery programmes including physical health monitoring and Personalised care framework.
You will be expected to complete audits and identify Quality Improvement factors.
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 andsafety standards within their assigned teams. They will ensure that all individuals receiving care and treatment from OPMH services do so in line with Trust strategic values.
The Key Responsibilities Of This Role Are As Follows
Empower people who use the service to make choices and decisions around their care and treatment
Champion dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect
Prioritise demand and allocate/delegate accordingly
Lone working at times
Quality improvement and ensuring high standards of clinical effectiveness
Audits
Compliance with CQC standards
Managing complaints and compliments
Learning from experience and support a safe service by ensuring incidents are reported
Supporting learners to have a meaningful placement experience
Advanced clinical delivery and leading others in their clinical practice through training, supervision, coaching and mentoring
Managing a clinical complex caseload
Having a sound knowledge and experience in the Dementia Strategy and embedding this within a community framework.
Making clinical triage decision on receipt of internal and external referrals
Being part of the core leadership team within your allocated team.
Chairing meetings, including clinical and safeguarding
Clinical knowledge and experience of comorbidities and frailty which affect care and treatment associated when treating a mental health condition.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* 5 years post qualifying work, including community and inpatient mental health
* Risk assessment and management
* Clinical leadership
* 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
Desirable
* Ability to interpret research and apply to practice
* Transformational work
Qualifications
Essential
* A professional mental health qualification to degree level or equivalent
* Post Graduate qualification relevant to specialism CBT, NMP, DBT, etc.
* Evidence of commitment to life-long learning and continuing professional development
* Leadership or quality improvement qualification
Desirable
* Management qualification
* Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Chadwell Centre
Torquay Road
Paignton
Devon
TQ3 2DW
Employer's website
https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Contact Information
Directorate Practice Lead
Lisa Williams
07970833941
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