FACT Clinical Lead (NHS AfC: Band 7) - Community Adult Mental Health - Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – Saint Albans, Hertfordshire
Are you an experienced Mental Health clinician (Registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist)?
Are you interested in working with an outstanding Trust to develop and deliver community treatment in mental health?
We are seeking to recruit a FACT Clinical Lead to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS) in St Albans.
The Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) team provides assertive support to a wider range of individuals who require an enhanced level of support for a specific time period.
The FACT team operates as a mini team within the wider adult community services 7 days per week, 9-5 pm. The FACT team works with individuals and their families experiencing a mental illness. This includes those already open to the adult mental health service who might experience a deterioration in their mental health, those ready to leave hospital after a period of care, and those newly referred into services who would benefit from time-limited, focused intervention to support their recovery.
The service will provide time-limited, personalised pathways of care to achieve better social, emotional, and psychological outcomes. The range of interventions will vary from practical care and support, the delivery of social care enablement interventions, psychologically informed interventions, and the monitoring of medication.
You will manage Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioners and Support Time and Recovery (STaR) workers and other staff, ensuring that the needs of service users are met through the effective deployment of these staff. You will also maintain a clinical role and/or a caseload dependent on sector need.
You will contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures.
As a lead, you may occasionally provide support to the ACMHS leadership staff as directed by the Community Mental Health Services Manager in their absence, as agreed with the Service Line Leader.
You will ensure, in collaboration with other professional colleagues, that professional practice meets standards as set by HPFT and/or professional statutes and bodies.
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provides health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Welcoming, Kind, Positive, Respectful, Professional.
To plan, prioritise, and manage the delivery of a health and social care assessment, psychologically informed care, and treatment service to service users open to FACT, including overseeing referrals and ensuring that there is an even and appropriate distribution of work across the team, based on the experience of team members.
To oversee referrals and the allocation of service users to workers, ensuring that caseloads are monitored and managed, and care packages are maintained under the auspices of CPA.
To ensure that there are adequate staff numbers organised appropriately around service user needs and to incorporate this into FACT rota planning.
To ensure that risks relating to service users, unmet needs, and the work environment are assessed and managed appropriately, ensuring that all team members know and understand their role in risk management.
To provide operational supervision and ensure the provision of clinical caseload supervision to all team members. Where necessary, to make arrangements for appropriate professional supervision to be available to all team members.
Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification for more in-depth information before applying.
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