Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a key position of Clinical Lead for the South Lakes Older Adult Mental Health Team, working within CMHT, Memory Assessment Service and Care Home Liaison.
As a Nurse Clinical Lead within the Community Mental Health Team, you will be an experienced and motivated registered Mental Health Nurse. The role of the OA Community Mental Health Team is to provide assessment and community-based interventions, which is undertaken in partnership with referred individuals and focuses on individual needs, self-determination and recovery.
As a Nurse Clinical Lead you will support the team with professional and clinical leadership, promoting a culture of learning and person-centered care, whilst promoting the Trust values.
Main duties of the job
The Nurse Clinical Lead will ensure service users are receiving a compassionate and person-centered service; ensuring adherence to the standard operating procedures, implementing quality improvement initiatives and best practice guidance and leading by example. Some of the key duties will include:
1. Provide expert clinical knowledge and interventions, advice, support and supervision in the Community Mental Health Team to colleagues, service users, families and carers.
2. To ensure clinical caseloads are managed working in partnership with team leaders, through effective clinical oversight, clinical audit, and clinical pathways to promote recovery.
3. Supporting and supervising students and newly qualified staff members through preceptorship within the team.
4. Encouraging a culture of learning and continuing professional development.
5. Working together with the Team Lead in implementing learning from serious incidents and risks within the team with support from the Trust Safety Team, Clinical Governance Lead and Senior Management.
Working for our organisation
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information about the role, please see the attached recruitment pack which includes a detailed job description and person specification, or visit our website via Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Mental Health Nurse with NMC
* Post-registration experience and/or evidence of formal courses and training at post graduate diploma level
* Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification (or willing to work towards this)
Knowledge
* Significant demonstrable post qualification experience at Band 6 working in a mental health/community specialist setting or equivalent
* Experience of developing, delivering and evaluating specialist programmes of care and risk management plans
* Evidence of successful mentoring and/or supervision of junior members of staff including students
Experience
* Evidence of improving service delivery in line with evidence based practice
* Demonstrable experience of effective multi-disciplinary team working
Skills
* Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to demonstrate diplomacy, tact and negotiation skills
* Current knowledge of the policy and challenges facing NHS providers
* Ability to develop, implement and evaluate specialist programmes of care and risk management plans
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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We want to highlight the importance of integrity and authenticity in your application form, and ask you to use AI tools responsibly to ensure your application form is a true reflection of your skills, knowledge and experiences.
Please consider that AI-generated content may lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description providing impersonal and inaccurate information.
Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document.
Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.
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You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.
LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.
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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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