Job overview
Clinical Team Lead – Bedford Adult Community Mental Health Service
As the Clinical Lead (Mental Health Nursing) for the team you will be responsible for the day to day management and leadership of the team, working alongside the Clinical Lead (Social Work) and with the Operational Manager to ensure safe and effective implementation of service developments relevant to the team. You will be responsible for ensuring safe and effective management of operations in the team, while providing clinical leadership specifically with regards to the Moderate to Severe Mental Health.
As well as the day to day leadership of the team, you will also be responsible for supporting clinical staff to take complex decisions regarding the planning and development of programmes of care.
Your role will be to ensure the service provided by the team is well organised, evidence based, recovery focused, socially inclusive and person centered, with clear clinical outcomes.
You will be required to work closely with the Operational Manager and Assistant Director to develop the team in line with commissioner requirements and Trust objectives, consulting all key stakeholders, and positively reinforcing the expectations of the organisation through collaborative and dynamic management and leadership that is both supportive and encouraging in nature to enable the team to adapt to key changes smoothly. You will have a lead role in the development of core team policies and local operating procedures.
Main duties of the job
You will have deputy management responsibility for continually improving the quality and performance of the team.
For a full summary please refer to the attached job description.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For detailed job description and main responsibilities please refer to the attached job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. •Registered Professional – Mental Health Nurse, with current registration with NMC.
2. •Evidence of post registration continue professional development, qualifications or equivalent experience
3. •Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
4. •Nurse mentor
5. •Nurse Prescriber
6. •AMHP
Experience
Essential criteria
7. •Previous experience of working within a community mental health setting as a registered Mental Health Nurse and case load management
8. •Previous experience of managing others and functioning as a team member
9. •Previous experience of Management and Clinical Supervision of others, including annual appraisal
10. •Previous experience of organisational change
11. •Previous experience of service development, quality improvement and of bringing innovation and new ideas to practice
12. •Previous experience of working within the NHS and with senior allied professionals, internal and external stake holders
13. •Previous experience delivering therapeutic interventions such as PSI/ CBT etc.
14. •The ability to assertively engage resistant service users with complex clinical needs & associated risks
Desirable criteria
15. •Crisis and Mental Health inpatient practice
Skills
Essential criteria
16. •Computer literacy
17. •Excellent organisational skills - able to prioritise own work and manage own time.
18. •Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills and the ability to meet tight timelines
19. •Excellent skills of conflict resolution, negotiation and facilitation
20. •Acts upon service user and carer feedback and information to improve the way things are done taking personal responsibility for resolving
21. •Ability to build relationships and negotiate satisfactory outcomes with internal and external Stakeholders.
22. •Anticipates and takes action in order to create and seize opportunities to avoid crises taking an overview of complex situations to generate new perspectives - 'thinks outside the box' identifies and implements quick wins where possible
23. •Ability to review and analyse complex data and recommend a course of action and objectives and motivate staff to achieve them.
24. •European Computer Driving Licence(ECDL) and mobility to work across multiples settings in the locality
Knowledge
Essential criteria
25. •Excellent knowledge of current and relevant local and national agendas that impact upon community mental health services and the wider health and social care system and the ability to understand and disseminate this knowledge to others.
26. •Sound knowledge and understanding of recovery principles and NICE guidance in relation to mental health community services and the ability to ensure that evidence based practice with clear clinical outcomes is embedded into practice
27. •Very good understanding of of the Mental Health Act (1983/ 2007/ 2014/5), Care Act (2014), relevant national standards, No Health without Mental Health (2011) and other relevant national policies
28. •Demonstrate a knowledge base for substance misuse and associated risks
Personal Attributes (demonstrable)
Essential criteria
29. •Self aware demonstrating a consistent inclusive leadership style focused on achieving the best results and overcoming obstacles
30. •Takes action to enable teams to achieve maximum contribution, communicates vision, direction, and outcomes clearly, motivating others to achieve.
31. •Ability to work independently and as part of a team and able to both/influence and work across professional boundaries
32. •Takes specific action to improve team or individual performance intervening promptly and constructively to support.
33. •Ability to communicate positive expectations of the organisation to teams in a enabling and supportive manner
34. •Ability to remain calm under pressure, motivate others and be flexible and adaptable to change
35. •Demonstrates they care and values others, able to acknowledge and reward good work, celebrating team and individual success
36. •Develop team spirit and inclusivity and respect for each other
37. •Ability to lead on the effective management of organisational change in order to promote team resilience, retention and emotional intelligence
Other
Essential criteria
38. •Keeps up to date with activities of the organisation
39. •Able to demonstrate a commitment to self-development
Additional Requirement
Essential criteria
40. •Car driver essential and be able to travel between Trust sites throughout the County
41. •Full driving license
42. •Flexible working according to the needs of the service and to support work/life balance and improving working lives.