Overview
This is an opportunity for a highly skilled, values driven leader to play a pivotal role in reducing restrictive practices; in particular, long-term segregation and to maintain a pathway which prevents escalation to secure services and enables a position of hospital avoidance, directing people to a community-based pathway. This role is for two years, and the expectation is that the specialist practitioner will be instrumental in the long-term embedding of the HOPE(S) clinical model of care in clinical practice.
Humber Coast and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and Lead Provider Collaborative and South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board have collaborated with Mersey Care NHS Foundation trust to continue to build on the successful HOPE(S) programme following the national improvement programme to reduce long-term segregation and overall reliance on restrictive practices with children and young people, autistic adults and people with a learning disability.
We are recruiting a HOPE(S) specialist practitioner at AfC Band 8b who will join the team and help support the regional delivery of the HOPE(S) programme. The programme will be delivered through Humber Coast and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board and Lead Provider Collaborative and South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board to support providers to work in a human rights and trauma informed way that reduces restrictive practices, prevents harm and prevent escalation in services.
Responsibilities
The post holder will support the programme to deliver the HOPE(S) clinical model of care through the delivery of training and practice leadership. The post holder will support teams by providing intensive support and consultancy as required to patients prioritised by the key stakeholders in the system. Also provide clinical supervision and facilitate reflective practice to clinical practitioners.
Qualifications
Applicants must hold a professional registration e.g. Applied Psychologist with professional registration with the HCPC, Registered Learning Disability/Mental Health Nurse or an Allied Health Professional. Applicants must also have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in clinical practice at a senior level. The post holder must have strong human‑rights based values and be able to demonstrate this in their current practice. The post holder should be person focused, with a strong track record of using practice leadership and collaborative interdisciplinary approaches to improve care for people in services.
Applicants must be able to demonstrate advanced competence in highly complex decision‑making, assessment and the management of clinical needs to offer a systemic approach to teams. The post holder requires an in-depth knowledge of complex clinical care with significant evidence of post‑registration development activity.
Employer
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact
Name: Danny Angus
Job title: Associate Director for the HOPE(S) Programme
Email address: danny.angus@merseycare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0151 473 2993
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