Clinical Lead Ahp

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

YOUR APPLICATION

**Job overview**:
Our innovative and award-winning Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Community Mental Health Service seeks a creative and flexible Clinical Lead Allied Health Professional (AHP) to join our Shared Leadership Team. The Rehabilitation in Complex Psychosis Team, based in Norwich, supports service users with complex and enduring severe mental illness in the Central Norfolk Locality. As a team we are passionate about creative engagement, and empowering service users with complex needs to achieve their Recovery goals.

The team is a pioneering multi-agency project, and along with NSFT colleagues (nursing, OT, psychology, psychiatry and pharmacy), we have fully integrated substance misuse support from CGL, social workers from Norfolk County Council, and recovery and peer support workers from Together. As a caseload holding team, we provide rehabilitation support when and where a person needs it - in the community, in supported accommodation, or in-reaching to inpatient settings.

**Main duties of the job**:
This is a clinically focussed post with emphasis on ensuring high quality clinical care, provision and outcomes. You will demonstrate excellent clinical skills and will be expected to have experience and advanced knowledge in this area of clinical practice. You will develop clinical pathways that supports effective delivery of occupational therapy within the rehabilitation service.

You will be expected to act as a source of advice in the rehabilitation specialism and may be required to support developments in the given area of specialism across the locality.

You will provide specialist advice and knowledge and be able to support practitioners with clinical matters and decision making.

You will work with the shared leadership team and others supporting safety, performance, and service development and evaluation. You will be involved in supporting governance such as audit and QI, Quality Reviews, SAF, and best practice in line with NICE Guidelines (NG181) and the Royal College of Psychiatrists 'Quality Network for Mental Health Rehabilitation Services’ community rehabilitation standards.

**Working for our organisation**:
This post is hosted within the Central Norfolk Locality. This is an opportunity for someone to influence and shape a service funded to meet the needs of service users with complex psychosis who require rehabilitation in the community.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you’ll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We’re an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
It’s an exciting time to join the service, as you will have the opportunity to influence the development of a rehabilitation pathway across Norfolk.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Professional registration for Occupational Therapy or another AHP profession
- Masters level qualification in a: clinical, management or leadership field or demonstrable equivalent experience experience

**Desirable criteria**:

- Management diploma / degree in management / leadership or equivalent vocational training or willingness to undertake training from first year of holding this post

**Experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Working in partnership with Health and Social Care providers
- Experience in service redesign and project management

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of delivering or working in rehabilitation services

**Skills**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ability to communicate with people about difficult matters / in difficult situations across a diverse range of scenarios / situations
- Promote, monitor and maintain best practice in health, safety and security

**Knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Excellent working knowledge of wider health and social care system and stru