Location: Torquay, TQ27AA
Salary: £43742.00 to £50056.00
Date posted: 13th September 2024
Closing date: 6th October 2024
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Job Description:
An exciting and new opportunity has become available for a Band 7 Clinical Practice Lead at the Torbay Mental Health Unit.
The Community and Inpatient Practice Leader is responsible for ensuring compliance with quality and safety standards within their assigned clinical pathways/teams. They will ensure that all individuals receiving care and treatment from DPT services do so in line with Trust strategic objectives (safe, timely, personalised, sustainable and recovery focused) and are safeguarded from any harm.
The post holder may be required to undertake regular clinical work which will be subject to an agreed job plan.
Full time and Part time opportunities are available.
Main duties of the job
Role Responsibilities
* Workforce planning
* Lead on evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous decisions, striving for excellence.
* Promote a recovery model that empowers users of services to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their care and treatment.
* Champion dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect
* Prioritise demand and allocate/delegate accordingly
* Lone working at times
* Quality improvement and audit
* Compliance with CQC standards
* Managing complaints and compliments
* Learning from experience
* Advanced clinical delivery and leading others in their clinical practice through training, supervision, coaching and mentoring
* Applying quality improvement methodology to solve service delivery problems with qualified solutions
Additional Responsibilities
* All practice leads will hold a portfolio of LDU responsibilities including ensuring the quality and triangulation of provider compliance assessment tools and responsibility for updating and monitoring risk registers.
* They will also take responsibility for key practice development projects across the directorate as assigned by the Head of Practice and Professions.
* All Community Practice Leaders will hold a portfolio based on individual job planning e.g. safeguarding, complaints, assurance.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* A professional mental health qualification to degree level or equivalent
* Evidence of commitment to life-long learning and continuing professional development
Desirable
* Post Graduate qualification relevant to specialism
* Management qualification
* Training to Level 3 in Safeguarding Adults
Experience
Essential
* 5 years post qualifying work
* Ability to interpret research and apply to practice
* Knowledge and utilization of counselling skills / cognitive behavioural skills, psychosocial interventions
* Ability to assess and manage all levels of risk
* Experience of carrying out assessments, identifying the appropriate care pathways and confirming diagnosis
* Ability to communicate complex information across multi-agency teams
* Ability to develop a healthy culture of team working
Desirable
* Experience of working in areas such as community mental health care, Children and Young People, Adults or Older People
* Teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff
* Other relevant post registration experience
Knowledge
Essential
* Specialist knowledge of mental health disorders
* Ability to undertake bio-psycho-social assessment and formulating, robust care pathways
* Ability to engage challenging and/or acutely distressed patients in potentially hostile and/or antagonistic situations and use de-escalation techniques effectively
* Sufficient clinical knowledge to be able to make autonomous decisions, based on an analysis of complex presenting problems and signpost accordingly
* Management and organisational skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service.
Desirable
* Evidence of outstanding leadership
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Address
Torbay Mental Health Unit
Torbay Hospital
Torquay
Devon
TQ27AA
Employer's website
https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/
Contact information:
Locality Manager
Sally Burgess
sallyburgess2@nhs.net
07929827227
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