We are very excited to be delivering our Initial Response Service (IRS). This service provides a front door to all of our mental health services within the Bay, offering a 24/7 call handling, triage, planned care, and crisis response function.
You will work closely with other team leaders in your locality and support the Service Manager in ensuring service users receive high-quality interventions.
The post will be within the Bay locality, working from our new IRS hub supporting our urgent care pathway. You will be responsible for an established team of practitioners, senior call handlers, and admin staff, including the operational day-to-day running of the team.
This role is key to the new service, providing a responsive single point of access for urgent and routine requests for help, including signposting to relevant services within and outside of LSCFT. A crucial part of the design is to enable this service to work alongside the HTT’s, CMHT’s, EIS, and Older Adult services; therefore, sharing skills and experience, promoting positive learning and development for all staff within their roles is vital.
The successful candidate will be a registered mental health professional, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker. The service will operate 24/7, and candidates will be able to negotiate shift patterns to fit in with their home and personal needs.
You will be keen to embrace change and have a positive manner to support team members through change and provide strong leadership.
Responsibilities include:
1. Providing clinical leadership and first-line management for a community-based mental health team in a designated geographical locality within Lancashire Care Foundation Trust.
2. Working with senior clinicians and having responsibility for the delivery of a high-quality and high-performing team to a defined population.
3. Ensuring that staff in the team have opportunities for continuing professional development to provide best practices and meet the requirements of registering bodies.
4. Driving improvements in standards of clinical practice and patient care in line with the NHS modernization and Public Health agendas.
5. Providing direct clinical care to patients.
6. Actively leading in the delivery of the clinical governance, quality improvement, and performance management agenda within an identified locality team.
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.
For more information, please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
For further details/informal visits contact: Name: Alec Stuart, Job title: Team Manager, Email address: Alec.Stuart@lscft.nhs.uk
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