Mental Health Clinical Transformation & Improvement Lead

Job summary

An exciting new vacancy for a Mental Health Clinical Transformation & Improvement Lead has arisen with the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will be responsible as the Mental Health Development and Improvement Lead across the Division, by supporting the Divisional Service Improvement plans, including short term and long term actions and national targets and local KPI.

They will also ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality clinical service to clients by providing strong, effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence-based interventions and practice as well as providing consultation and support to staff across the Trust and from partner organisations.

They will continue to demonstrate advanced skills in practice and co-ordinate/lead the provision of support/advice regarding service development which may impact beyond their own area of work and the implementation of interventions, and the delivery of the highest quality of care in collaboration with service users, carers, staff, managers, and other agencies, across a number of teams/geographical areas.

They will utilise research skills by contributing to the identification, initiation, and co-ordination of audit and research within the relative service area and across the wider organisation.

Main duties of the job

• Leading on the transformation of services, service improvement plans, and future service development within and beyond own area of practice.
• Responsible for the implementation of delivery of high-quality clinical services to clients within the Mental Health Division.
• Provide clinical oversight in relation to service transformation across the Mental Health Division.
• Provide advanced skills in practice and co-ordinate/lead and provide support/advice regarding service development which may impact beyond own area of work, and the delivery of the highest quality of care in collaboration with service users, carers, staff, managers, and other agencies, across a number of teams/geographical areas.
• To work in partnership with operational managers, professional leads/colleagues, and service users to ensure delivery of contemporary community-based interventions to support recovery.
• Maintain compliance with, and development of, clinical policies, procedures, and guidelines to support the delivery of safe and effective care and interventions.
• Support the delivery of good governance and local audit within the service.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and contribute to the systematic governance of practice within the Division.

About us

We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information for this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience Professional clinical knowledge acquired through degree, supplemented by specialist training to masters or equivalent level, management qualification or equivalent experience.
• Current Professional registration.
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion.
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
• Knowledge of and experience in the use of a wide range of psychometric and other objective assessment tools, such as is used in neuro-assessment, as applied in mental health work.
• Skills in co-ordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, and application of this to research and development activity within the specialist service area.
• Basic IT skills.
• To maintain, as part of continual professional development, up to date clinical advanced/specialist knowledge/skills in this clinical field, using information to effect change in practice and ensuring the effective dissemination of new knowledge.
• Work closely with and provide advanced/specialist advice and consultation to all other professionals within the speciality.
• To take a senior clinical role in partnership with the clinical team in managing complex cases.
• To ensure up to date knowledge of relevant national and local policies/drivers to enable the post holder to review service need contribute to service/workforce re-design and its implementation, ensuring a needs led service based on best practice provided.
• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of clinical interventions, procedures and practices relevant to the clinical area.

Desirable

• Leadership or management qualification Experience of providing consultation to other agencies e.g. health visitors, school nurses.
• Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
• Evidence of policy implementation and development.
• Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner psychologist, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific specialist field where the post is held.
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users' psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active service user/carer involvement/participation.
• Professional networking locally and regionally.
• Be able to effectively Chair meetings.

Desirable

• A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held.
• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level.
• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships.
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising.
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills.
• Good time management skills.
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive.
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change.
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others.
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity.
• Evidence of resiliency when working with challenging client groups.
• Ability to commute between the various sites.
• Demonstrate mandatory training and attendance for the management of violence and aggression.

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally.
• Be able to demonstrate leadership/management skills at an advanced level.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details

Employer name
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Willerby Hill
Beverley Road
Willerby
HU10 6FE
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