Employer Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Peter Hodgkinson Centre
Town: Lincoln
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59
Clinical Lead
Band 7
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has opened for a Clinical Lead practitioner to join our Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centre (MHUAC). The successful candidate will be enthusiastic about the urgent treatment pathway and the MHUAC and be able to demonstrate excellent clinical leadership in a fast-paced environment.
The Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centre within Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust has been designed using a service delivery model to offer a safe and therapeutic environment for patients experiencing mental health crises. The aim is to reduce whole system pressures by directing patients away from ED and enabling onward referral and liaison with other co-located Mental Health Services.
The Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centre offers timely, high-quality clinical assessments for those suffering from a mental health crisis. The service aims to reduce A&E attendance for those who have no medical need to attend and provide patients with the right intervention at the right time to help prevent hospital admission and keep people well in the community.
The Mental Health Assessment Centre is based at the Peter Hodgkinson Centre and consists of a waiting room, three assessment rooms, and an office space. MHUAC is co-located next to the Psychiatric Clinical Decisions Unit and the Section 136 Suite. The staff team works across all three services, which helps to provide continuity of care throughout the pathway.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Provide overall clinical and managerial leadership of the Nursing and clinical team in the MHUAC.
2. This position is both Clinical and Managerial with a team composition made up of Nursing, Allied Healthcare Professionals, Psychological therapy professionals, Administrative and Medical representation. As clinical lead, you will provide expert knowledge within areas of acute care mental health and support the clinical team to develop their roles and the provision of care within Acute mental health.
3. Work jointly with the Team Coordinator in managing the service including line management of staff, reporting for contract, and auditing of service provision.
4. Be accountable for the leadership and management of the delivery of clinical care for service users.
5. Provide leadership and work in partnership with service users, their carers, and colleagues in the urgent care setting.
6. Provide effective line management and clinical supervision jointly with the Team Coordinator of the clinical team in urgent care pathway setting.
Working for Our Organisation
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism, and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high-quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive.
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity and have active staff networks groups.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
1. Manage and lead the team in the clinical delivery of care.
2. The hours would be management days and clinical shifts.
3. Demonstrate the ability to effectively influence the clinical dimensions of service development.
4. Use specialist knowledge to deal effectively with newly encountered clinical situations.
5. Work with individuals to assess their mental health, recognize mental illness, and identify their related needs and circumstances; enable them to understand, manage, and where appropriate change their behavior by linking them with evidence-based treatment pathways.
6. Plan, implement, review, and improve interventions and treatment pathways to meet people’s identified needs and manage their inherent risk with comprehensive Clinical Risk Formulation and care planning.
7. Assess carers’ and families' needs and develop, implement, and review programmes of support for them.
8. Protect people from abuse, neglect, and harm.
9. Work collaboratively and promote effective working relationships with members of the multi-disciplinary team and community teams, ensuring appropriate clinical decision-making with other professionals and agencies.
10. Support transitions of young people to adult services.
11. Adhere to N.M.C. or other professional codes of conduct and ethics, plus associated legislation.
12. Develop clinical practice having due regard for the NICE Guidelines in respect of treatment for mental health disorders in children and adolescents.
13. Provide support to the Team Coordinator for writing and providing evidence and reports for the NHS England contract.
14. Provide line management and clinical supervision to the clinical team and administrators as requested.
15. Provide high standards of evidence-based, clinical care in one’s own practice and leadership in the team’s practice.
16. Work flexibly according to service needs.
17. Contribute to, and lead on the development of service protocols as requested.
18. Instigate and implement service developments, improvements, and action plans as required.
19. Key involvement in service development, participating in management discussions and decision-making through attendance at management meetings.
20. Ensure the implementation of up-to-date agreed care plans, risk assessments, and reviews are in place for all service users in line with local and national guidance/ legislation.
21. Develop and deliver information to enhance professional awareness of issues related to the emotional, behavioral, and mental needs of service users.
22. Support the Team Coordinator in monitoring performance and activity targets and ensure these are met and report exceptions.
23. Promote equality and diversity and supportive access/admission to in-patient care.
24. Support the Team Coordinator to develop systems to monitor and review the service against national and local standards and use findings to initiate and implement change and ongoing improvement in service content, quality, and delivery.
25. Attend and contribute to relevant regional and national professional development activities to maintain up-to-date skills and knowledge in meeting the needs of the service.
26. Delegate aspects of the role to other team members, while maintaining overall responsibility for team delivery.
27. Ensure dissemination of relevant information (internal or external as appropriate) to the team.
28. Support the Team Coordinator to undertake regular reviews of the team’s performance and compliance with national and local standards e.g. through audit.
29. Support the Team Coordinator to ensure that all staff within their team (including themselves) receive managerial and clinical supervision, appraisal, and mandatory training in line with LPFT’s policies.
Person Specification
Skills & Competences
* Excellent assessment and risk management skills.
* Demonstrating supportive and sensitive communication to patients, carers, and staff, while understanding the nature and effects of some information.
* Basic IT skills.
* Knowledge of the Mental Health Act and MCA (2005).
* Ability to engage with patients experiencing High Expressed Emotion.
* Experience of working with patients who have self-harming behaviors.
* Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
* Knowledge of current agenda and guidance towards Mental Health forward view.
* Highly motivated & able to engage with service users, carers, and key stakeholders to improve outcomes.
* Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
* Health Liaison working collaboratively with other health and social care providers.
* Budget management.
Experience
* Relevant experience of working with people with mental health needs or clear evidence of substantial experience of working with individuals in crisis and skills that are transferable to both the community/in-patient settings.
* Sound knowledge of the national agenda for mental health.
* Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
* Working knowledge of assessment tools.
* Experience working within a multi-disciplinary approach to healthcare.
* Experience of working within a hospital environment.
* ENB998 / FliPS or equivalent or willing to undertake.
* Working with people who have suicidal ideation.
Qualifications
* RMN or RNLD or RN: 1st Level Registration (NMC) or degree or equivalent.
* Evidence of specialised continued professional training (degree level) in clinical practice.
* Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice (MSc or Degree).
* Postgraduate qualification in leadership and management (or considerable experience in this area).
As an ethical recruiter, we will not pursue applications from red list countries as defined by the World Health Organisation. In order to pursue and apply for this role, you must have UK NHS experience.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
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.
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