Location: Exeter, EX2 5AF
Salary: £46148.00 to £52809.00
Date posted: 17th January 2025
Closing date: 7th February 2025
Clinical Specialist Lead
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Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced and self-motivated full time Band 7 Specialist Clinical Lead to join us at this very exciting time, working across our 2 developing community perinatal teams in Devon, Exeter and Barnstable.
Devon Perinatal Service has long been long established and is proud to be accredited by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
The Community Perinatal Service has undertaken a significant expansion over the past 18 months which has created an ability to offer more families access to specialist perinatal expertise. This exciting role was new to the service and continues to be developing which the successful applicant would be able to help shape and evolve.
You would be joining a cohesive multi disciplinary leadership group where you would be supported to embed into your role. We offer a comprehensive induction package and are able to access training that is relevant to your role.
Our work can be challenging and requires excellent risk management skills and a knowledge of safeguarding protocols ensuring thoughtfulness of the unborn and other children in the family at all times.
We are an aspirational service & actively encourage innovation; joining the wider Perinatal Service as we develop links with midwifery, health visitors and our perinatal colleagues.
Be the best you can be bring your skills, re-set your work life balance and come & work in beautiful Devon.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss the role further, please do get in touch
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be central to the functioning and ongoing development of the CommunityPerinatal Service that covers Devon. The Specialist Clinical Lead will work with women and birthing people who are experiencing antenatal severe mental health presentations and 2 years postnatal. They will support the duty workers across Devon to prioritise assessments. This will involve delivering a clinically safe care pathway for women in the community and co-ordinating care for those women/birthing people who require hospital admission in the 12-24 month postnatal period, seeing ensuring high quality co-ordinated care at all times.
They will ensure the delivery of these services is in accordance with clear governance arrangements within the directorate which will include taking a lead clinical role in an area of service effectiveness. They will provide effective professional clinical leadership through appropriate modelling of behaviours and skills and/or direct supervision.
They will also be required to act as an autonomous senior clinician, being accountable for a defined caseload across the county which will involve developing good working relationships & care pathways across primary & secondary care services.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Contact information:
Service Manager
Amanda Taylor
0707973832501
