Nurse Clinical Lead - CMHT

NHS; Kendal; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000

Job description

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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. Ensure clinical caseloads are managed working in partnership with team leaders, through effective clinical oversight, clinical audit, and clinical pathways to promote recovery.
3. Support and supervise students and newly qualified staff members through preceptorship within the team.
4. Encourage a culture of learning and continuing professional development.
5. Work 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.

About us

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.

Job 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

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.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum, pro rata