Work alongside the Clinical Leads, Team Managers and Operational Manager to provide specialist input to strategic planning, development, audit and evaluation of clinical services, protocols and policies within the specialised area. This post holder will lead and work with the Community Response Service to ensure that service demand is met with the focus on complex discharge planning. The post holder will ensure that all resources are utilised to meet demand, will gather relevant information, liaise with referrers, patients and managers To offer support and supervision to band 6 staffaround discharge planning and ensuring NHCT policies and procedures are adhered to. Required to ensure an appropriate deployment of staff within the team ensuring an appropriate skill mix across the units. Required to provide support, direction and guidance on a day to day basis to staff team members and other external agencies. The post holder will provide a comprehensive service in the specialised area and provide clinical expertise at an advanced level in the assessment, diagnosis and management of highly complex clients. To promote and ensure safe working practice for all team members both within the office environment and in the wider community at all times-lone working policy, health and safety policy, risk assessments, moving and handling assessments etc. To facilitate student placements within the team e.g. nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, trainee doctors etc. To ensure assessments of need are undertaken. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.