Clinical Lead/Manager

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Job overview

This role is to support the Primary Care Mental health team across Warrington & Halton. As one of the team managers, your role will bring together the interface working between Mersey Care and Primary Care.

This is a crucial leadership role which involves working with GP practices and local Primary Care networks to support the delivery of high quality service offered by Mersey Care staff.

To be successful you will need to be able to develop and maintain strong and supportive relationships with our primary care stakeholders and also within our own merseycare services to support the transformation work within the community mental health division.

You would be joining an established and experienced team, whose roles are evolving, you will provide clinical leadership which is compassionate and supportive as well as line management support to the nursing team.

Applicants should be well organised, with strong communication skills.

Main duties of the job

You will provide management to a primary care mental health team who hold clinics within Primary care networks, developing and delivering strong communications to support and maintain our relationships with our key stakeholders.

You will ensure the team are managed and supported effectively and compassionately and in line with trust policies.

You will support the wider transformation within the trust.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

CLINICAL/MANAGERIAL:

To provide clinical advice, expertise and leadership to all staff.

To support staff in assessment and developing plans to meet patient needs and to ensure that they are appropriate and of a high standard.

Liaise with family members, carers and significant others with regards to the assessment and treatment of service users.

To be the first point of contact for service users and carers that have concerns regarding their care and make every effort to resolve their concerns sensitively and promptly.

To direct and supervise all staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.

To ensure that team resources are managed appropriately to maximise care and efficient work patterns. This will include tasks such as management of attendance, annual leave and the use of extra resources.

To use skills gained through qualification and experience to communicate with members of your team in the implementation of change and in the interest of good, cohesive team working.

Support staff as we embed the Community Transformation national agenda within the division.

To liaise with other professionals offering services within the service to ensure good communication and high standards of service user care.

Liaise with other professionals with a multi-disciplinary approach to ensure a high quality of service delivery.

To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health care record. Supervise and monitor the entries made by team members through performance management and audit.

Provide reports and statistical returns to a variety of Trust departments as requested.

To co-ordinate the provision of teaching sessions in order to pass on knowledge and skills.

To assist in the implementation of change or new systems within the area.

Ensure that all incidents are documented as per trust policy and that any follow-up action is taken.

PROFESSIONAL:

To be responsible for maintaining your own professional registration

To develop effective working relationships with other professionals outside of the Trust in order to enhance the delivery of care to service users

To participate as a supervisor and supervisee in the services performance management framework. Work towards and help others work towards goals and objectives as agreed in personal development plans.

Take responsibility for maintaining and developing your knowledge and skills within your area of work.

To attend, as appropriate courses and conferences and to feedback and share knowledge gained from attendance.

To be professionally accountable for your actions as a registered nurse.

To act, at all times, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, ensuring that all team members are adhering to policy and procedure.

To undertake mandatory training as stipulated by the Trust and ensure that all actions are in line with training. To monitor that all team members take up mandatory training annually.

To keep up to date with developments in clinical practice and make recommendations for change as appropriate.

To co-ordinate projects to look at specific clinical practices and ensure findings are implemented within the team.

To take an active role in the reporting of adverse incidents as per trust policy. Ensure that team members follow the policy and appropriately report all incidents.

To organise the local induction of new staff.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered mental Health Nurse or appropriate professional qualification.
• Significant demonstrable post registration experience within mental health services minimum 3 years post qualification.
• Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development.

Knowledge/ Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven experience of leadership and management of clinical care within the community setting.
• Demonstrate knowledge in the concepts of mentorship, preceptorship and supervision and ability to provide education and supervision to qualified and unqualified staff.
• Knowledge of developments in community care and of health legislation
• Ability to contribute to developing nursing excellence within the community team
• Demonstrates knowledge and experience of various psychological/psychosocial approaches

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of experience working with older people in a variety of health care settings.
• Ability to lead the process of standard setting and audit

Values

Essential criteria

• Continuous Improvement
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and non-verbally
• Possess good listening and negotiation skills
• Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Professional attitude.
• Flexibility
• Good interpersonal skills
• Leadership skills

Desirable criteria

• Computer Literate

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

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We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.

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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 382.7KB)
• OH Risk ID (PDF, 144.4KB)
• A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB)
• Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB)
• Employee Benefits (PDF, 950.7KB)