Clinical Lead

An exciting opportunity to help establish and clinically lead the senior mental health practitioners within the living well service in Tameside & Glossop. This newly established post will involved working with our Pennine Care NHS Foundation colleagues and our Partners in the Living well service as well as external partners to identify and support patients who are struggling with their Mental Health in the community.

This is an interesting and inspiring time to join the neighbourhood mental health team as we are developing together with our partners a service for the residents of Tameside to be able to access support for their Mental health at a time and place that is right for them.

To provide clinical leadership, support and supervision to clinical staff. and support an identified team of practitioners with advice and guidance on the management of clinical cases and hold a small case load of patients in the 12 week pathway.
- To work as an integral part of the NMHT
- To analyze, validate and minimize any internal pathway blockages.
- To be an effective decision-making and clinical resource to support the Team manager in the selections and recruitment of staff, and to develop and promote strategies aimed at staff retention
- To support the Team manager to complete appraisals for relevant allocated staff within the team.
- To support the team in developing and building effective communication with all other services.
- To take appropriate action with regard to complaints and reportable incidents within the service as directed by the Team Manager.
- To provide clinical leadership and structured clinical supervision to the team.

− Maintain consistency and quality of care for all service
users under the care of the NMHTand support effective
and timely referral on.
− Support safe ,efficient and effective high quality transitions in and
out of the NHMT
− Ensure the team works in a collaborative manner within
the NMHT/LLW with other PCFT services, primary care
and other partners

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
- We’re really proud of our#PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

Our ambition is to maximise people’s potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
3. Access to Continued Professional Development
4. Involvement in improvement and research activities
5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
6. Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople

**Post**: Clinical Lead Practitioner

**Band**: Band 7

**Location/Base**: Neighbourhood Mental Health Team/Living Well

**Responsible to**: Operational Team Manager

**Main Contacts**: Internal or external contacts
Job Summary
- To provide clinical leadership, support and supervision to clinical staff.

To support an identified team of practitioners with advice and guidance
on the management of clinical case.
- To work as an integral part of the NMHT which will include carrying a small caseload.
- To participate in the extended working hours as required by the needs of the service
- To provide clinical leadership and structured clinical supervision to the team.

− Maintain consistency and quality of care for all service
users under the care of the NMHTand support effective
and timely referral on.
− Support safe ,efficient and effective high quality transitions in and out of the NHMT
− Ensure the team works in a collaborative manner within
the NMHT/LLW with other PCFT services, primary care
and other partners
− Support the team in delivering asset based mental healthcare
- To ensure that clinical standards are, monitored and

evaluated, and ensure both they and the team provide care
of the highest quality to service users
- To liaise closely with social care leads, housing

associations, IPS workers and other agencies to promote
social support and aid recovery and promote this way of
working within the team
- To liaise closely with, general practitioners, to ensure clinical

pathways are supportive of service user flow from CMHT’s
to Primary Care and vice versa.
Main

**Responsibilities**:
Managerial
- provide case management supervision to the staff team.
- To analyze, validate and minimize any internal pathway blockages.
- To be an effective decision-making and clinical resource to support th