HOPE(S) Specialist Practitioner

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

This is an opportunity for a highly skilled, values driven leader to play a pivotal role in reducing restrictive practices; in particular, long-term segregation and to maintain a pathway which prevents escalation to secure services and enables a position of secure hospital avoidance with a view to directing men and women to a community-based pathway across the North West Region. This role is for two years, and the expectation is that the specialist practitioner will be instrumental in the long-term embedding of the HOPE(S) clinical model of care in clinical practice.

Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative have collaborated with Mersey Care NHS Foundation trust to develop a pilot to test out the effectiveness of the HOPE(S) model in preventing people escalating up the system. This builds on the successful HOPE(S) programme following the national improvement programme to reduce long-term segregation and overall reliance on restrictive practices with children and young people, autistic adults and people with a learning disability.

Main duties of the job

To provide strategic clinical leadership and innovation using the most up to date and evidence-based theory and practice with a specific focus on the application of the HOPE(S) clinical model of care to reduce long term segregation and innovative strategies to improve clinical practice and reduce restrictive practices with adults with autism and/or a learning disability and those with mental ill-health across Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative in partnership with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Job responsibilities

To support Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative in the delivery of clinical quality improvement and innovation in relation to reducing long term segregation and other forms of restrictive practice. To provide Clinical and Practice leadership for the HOPE(S) programme. To deliver key outcomes on this portfolio to the Programme Steering Group. To offer expert clinical advice and chair meetings with organisations within Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative. To offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, staff and other professionals. To demonstrate advanced competence in highly complex decision making, assessment and the management of clinical needs within In Patient Services across Prospect Lead Provider Collaborative. To work in partnership with service users, carers and other practitioners to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional Registration e.g. Registered Nurse Mental Health
• Educated to or working towards Masters degree or equivalent level, Or Post-graduate doctoral level training in clinical psychology accredited by the BPS, or its approved equivalent and professional registration with the HCPC
• Demonstrable experience in clinical practice at a senior level
• Evidence of post registration study / continuing professional development at masters level or equivalent

Knowledge/Experience

• A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
• The post holder would be expected to have extensive abilities in delivering innovation and quality in clinical practice in a range of specialties, demonstrating leadership skills, change management expertise and the delivery of clinical developments that have tangible results for patients
• Experience of Consultancy on complex cases and service improvement
• Will have experience of promoting clinical effectiveness & standards setting via audit & governance frameworks
• Will also be able to demonstrate training and teaching expertise in applied settings
• Will be service user focused with a track record that includes examples of clinical practice that have required collaborative interdisciplinary work to improve adult services
• Will require an in-depth knowledge of clinical care with significant evidence of post-registration development activity
• Must be able to demonstrate a commitment to service user involvement
• Be able to work autonomously in a self-motivating style
• Computer literate with a working knowledge of standard formats including spreadsheets and data management

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

Skills

• Ability to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and critical judgement
• Ability to undertake research and record of scholarship
• Ability to disseminate in a professional manner to a range of professionals at regional and national level as evidenced by presentations at conference and/or publications in peer reviewed journals
• Will possess excellent leadership and communication skills
• Will have the ability to reflect on experience & generate a learning culture
• Highly effective interpersonal skills and will be a recognisable role model for staff and patients

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.