Mental Health Clinical Lead

1 week ago


Shaftesbury, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to breakinto offender healthcare and develop your career.

As part of the South West Prison Healthcare contract awarded to Oxleas NHS trust in 2022, we are able to expand recruitment and are looking for a compassionate, knowledgeable and motivated Mental Health Clinical Lead to join our friendly team at HMP Guys Marsh

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patients future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

As part of our healthcare team, you will enjoy all the benefits of NHS AfC employment (inc pension) with the opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, who encourage career and personal development to all staff to increase their clinical and interpersonal skills.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:

To be responsible for the planning, delivery and evaluation of quality mental health care for patients Performance monitoring and management including engaging with commissioners and service evaluators as required Line management and supervision of staff, including ensuring staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development To ensure appropriate professional supervision arrangement are in place To be responsible for and directly manage delegated budget To actively manage a small caseload of patient To ensure that the team provides effective and evidence based interventions which are guided by national, local and professional standards Ensure that the team functions in line with the agreed operational polic Co-ordinate recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decision Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

We're KindWe're FairWe ListenWe Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

Performance Management:

To provide effective leadership and management to the team that promotes high performance standards and enhances the achievement of the Trusts objectives and priorities.

Assume overall management accountability for the team Assume responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the team ensuring the service is delivered within the agreed structures outlined in the operational policy Provide clear and consistent leadership to the workforce of the team and offer professional advice when required To engage staff in the delivery of all performance targets for and on behalf of the Trust, to assist the team in improving the quality of the service Establish, develop and contribute to service developments within the directorate Understand the Trusts key priorities and those of your care group and translate these into key priorities for your care group To develop, implement and maintain systems, processes and practice in risk management, including the management of Health and Safety Ensure all aspects of Safeguarding are adhered to and that policies and procedures are followed at all times Effective management of risk of infection ensuring related polices fully complied with and communicated in the team

Management responsibilities

Provide regular reports as required in connection with financial management and performance monitoring of agreed service targets Authorised signatory and payroll change forms Ensure management of staff is consistent with Trusts HR Policies to the achievement of equality, equity, and optimum performance Conduct and contribute to the PDR process for all staff within the team which reflect Trust and local priorities and ensure staff has access to appropriate training and development Co-ordinate and develop the practice and culture of the MDT team through close liaising with clinical leads around recruitment and service delivery Ensure appropriate supervision takes place in line with Trust policy Communicate regularly through team meetings, team briefings, clinical forums and individually with team members providing an opportunity for two-way feedback Ensure that service users and carers opinions and experiences are being responded to at a team level Ensure through effective leadership and management, continuous service development, improvement, and high-quality service delivery Clinical record keeping is of a consistent high standard and meets trust policy and practice guidance

Clinical

Ensure effective communication systems and structures are in place to facilitate the dissemination of information relating to patients risk profiles To be professionally accountable for the planning and delivery of care leading on the prioritising of clinical needs and risk to provide an effective, safe and efficient service To ensure partnership working with service users and their families where appropriate, to meet a range of complex situations that arise from offending behaviour and mental health needs To ensure all policies are understood including Mental Health Act, Childrens Act and Safeguarding Adults

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

Proof of right to work documentation

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographicID

Proof of address documentation

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited .

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website ( ).

Person Specification

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

Relevant professional qualification (RMN, Social Worker, Psychologist), educated to degree, masters level or have other relevant experience Either community mental health experience or offender healthcare experience is essential. Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice in variable settings Experience of managing staff and liaising with other agencies Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders

Desirable

Post-qualification training relating to mental health, neurodevelopmental disorders, addiction or risk assessment.
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