Clinical Lead

**Clinical Lead**:
**Band 7**:
**Main area**
- RMN
- **Grade**
- Band 7
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Long days 24/7 service)
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-018-C**Site**
- Longreach House
- **Town**
- Redruth
- **Salary**
- £41,659 - £47,672 Per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
**Are you an experienced senior mental health clinician looking for a new challenge and opportunity to join an exciting newly commissioned service?**

The Clinical Leads will provide expert advice, line management, clinical leadership, caseload management, supervision and training to the team and will be responsible for ensuring the consistent provision of high quality mental health care to people in mental health crisis in the community. The post holder will work closely with the Team Managers to ensure the effective management and development of the service. This an exciting time to join the team as we continue to grow and develop to deliver a high quality mental health response to people in crisis.

***The Clinical Leads will provide direct patient care to people in their home/ Crisis Hub who are acutely mentally ill and who do not require immediate physical health care. The post holder will be responsible for the rapid response to referrals, face to face assessment and gate keeping of admissions to hospital and facilitating discharge from in-patient services once the risk to the individual or others has decreased. The post holder will also be expected to undertake urgent front line assessments from GP’s and other referrers such as police, ambulance and local authority and make clinical decisions around appropriate care pathways.

**This is a full time post, working 13 long days/nights over a 4 week period.**

**Main duties of the job**:

- Nurses/practitioners working within the Hub, HTT and Helpline require a high level of oral and written communication and interpersonal skills, self-awareness and empathy in all communications.
- You will contribute to the team and engage with a wide range of stakeholders including staff, services users, carers, general public, third sector agencies, GP’s, 111 services
- You will communicate and relate with a range of employees of the Trust, visitors, service users, carers, students, members of the public and other agencies with a professional and sensitive approach using a variety of communication and customer service methods - at all times maintaining professional boundaries.
- You will receive phone calls, recording messages accurately, liaising with other administrative, call handlers and health professionals ensuring that suitable action is taken. Effectively use the phone system to answer & redirect calls, plus wrap-up a session
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