Clinical Practice Lead

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Community Practice Leader is responsible for ensuring compliance with quality andsafety standards within their assigned teams. They will ensure that all individuals receiving care and treatment from OPMH services do so in line with Trust strategic values.

The key responsibilities of this role are as follows:

Empower people who use the service to make choices and decisions around their care and treatment

Champion dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect

Prioritise demand and allocate/delegate accordingly

Lone working at times

Quality improvement and ensuring high standards of clinical effectiveness

Audits

Compliance with CQC standards

Managing complaints and compliments

Learning from experience and support a safe service by ensuring incidents are reported

Supporting learners to have a meaningful placement experience

Advanced clinical delivery and leading others in their clinical practice through training, supervision, coaching and mentoring

Managing a clinical complex caseload

Having a sound knowledge and experience in the Dementia Strategy and embedding this within a community framework.

Making clinical triage decision on receipt of internal and external referrals

Being part of the core leadership team within your allocated team.

Chairing meetings, including clinical and safeguarding

Clinical knowledge and experience of comorbidities and frailty which affect care and treatment associated when treating a mental health condition.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• 5 years post qualifying work, including community and inpatient mental health
• Risk assessment and management
• Clinical leadership
• Other relevant post registration experience
• Understanding of research principles
• Teaching, training and or supervision of clinical staff
• Experience of working in a senior or advanced clinical role

Desirable

• Ability to interpret research and apply to practice
• Transformational work

Qualifications

Essential

• A professional mental health qualification to degree level or equivalent
• Post Graduate qualification relevant to specialism CBT, NMP, DBT, etc.
• Evidence of commitment to life-long learning and continuing professional development
• Leadership or quality improvement qualification

Desirable

• Management qualification
• Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Chadwell Centre

Torquay Road

Paignton

Devon

TQ3 2DW

Employer's website

https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)