Clinical Team Lead

About the Company

Key Responsibilities:

• Audit and collate individual needs as identified on placing documentation i.e. Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) both for existing young people and adults and as part of the new admissions process.
• Co-ordinate and deliver clinical services for young people and adults, aligned with each provision's completed needs audit.
• Co-ordinate and deliver evidence-based practice training according to their clinical discipline at the appropriate level for all staff across the group, including trauma-informed practice and neuro-diversity awareness.
• Co-ordinate and monitor universal, enhanced and specialist assessments and interventions to be delivered across the division ensuring alignment with the OFG TIP and AAD strategies.
• Co-ordinate therapeutically led consultation by appropriately qualified professionals, to care and education teams to embed and develop evidence-based practice.
• Ensure that stated needs on Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) are being met and delivered across the divisions.
• Support service delivery and operations in line with the OFG vision, mission and values.
• Line manage staff within the service allocated by the Locality Clinical Lead, ensuring that the service provided meets the standards and levels required.

About the Role

The local management / co-ordination, development and delivery of services at the universal, enhanced and specialist level of intervention across their responsible provision(s) comprising of care, education and clinical services, in line with the group's 'Integrated Model of Care' via training and consultation.

Responsibilities:

• Audit and monitor children/young people's and adults' needs from the point of joining a service, ensuring that all identified wellbeing and clinical needs are catered for.
• Ensure the implementation of the 'Integrated Model of Care' in line with the strategic plans set by OFG and as supported by the Locality Clinical Lead, while reporting to the provision's senior management team/all levels as required.
• Locally provide planned structured support to all education, residential services and foster care staff in their area(s) of responsibility to enhance performance, understanding and delivery of the group's 'Integrated Model of Care'.
• Ensure the effective application of operational systems and processes to analyse data, as provided by OFG, and locally review operational practices identifying early warnings to ensure expert planned support, guidance and advice is in place to all staff in regards to children/young people and adults personal development, behaviour and welfare.
• Act as a mentor, coach and adviser to all staff on personal development, behaviour and welfare functioning at a local level, providing support to staff where appropriate and in line with the provisions intervention strategies to minimise the impact of crisis and improve poor performance.
• Co-ordinate and support the delivery of direct specialist services and training, inductions for groups of new starters and ongoing training to existing staff teams (with a particular emphasis on trauma informed practice and understanding neurodevelopmental differences), develop the practice and theoretical knowledge of the workforce and support the development of all staff in relation to working with personal development, behaviour and welfare difficulties.

Qualifications:

As an operational manager of services, the Lead Clinician is to ensure all leadership and management provided holds in mind the standards set as part of the 5 pillars of operational functioning that comprise leadership & management and advises and guides in this regard.

Required Skills:

• Leadership & Management – to locally support and guide, ensuring they are fully resourced, trained & experienced to deliver outstanding services.
• Premises – to resource and monitor clinical services and the wider provision, ensuring that the provision is compliant to people’s individual EHCPs, placement plans, and each clinician’s relevant governing body, communicating and addressing any concerns appropriately.
• Finance – to support the Locality Clinical Lead in adhering to the allocated annual budget for their responsible clinical locality provision(s).
• Safeguarding – to support and develop services to promote and meet all standards of safe practice, including recruitment and supporting documentation related to the effective functioning of the Clinical and Wellbeing Team, such as but not limited to; Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Clinician Profiles, Service Review Plans and Assessment/Progress Reports. You will support in the completion, monitoring and recording of Safeguarding Concerns, LADO referrals, risk management, bullying and exploitation – offering expert advice and guidance as required.
• Progress & Quality – to support and develop the promotion of positive outcomes for young people and adults, supporting the effective assessment of needs, planning and measurement of progress and the quality assurance of all services, models and approaches locally offered.
• People & Wellbeing – to support and develop services to invest in people. To deliver training, workshops and chair meetings as required. To monitor the emotional welfare of the workforce across the divisions, supporting local leaders to intervene and support as appropriate, to improve staff retention.

Preferred Skills:

• To consistently act and behave in line with the organisation’s vision, mission, values and Code of conduct, role modelling, coaching and mentoring in this regard.
• To plan and structure working time so as to provide meaningful and consistent guidance and support to direct staff and appointed clinicians in the delivery of the group's 'Integrated Model of Care'.
• To manage/coordinate, deliver and monitor the delivery of Clinical services to meet the needs requirement in young people's and adults Service Review Plans, assessments, outcomes measures and reporting and recording systems.
• Ensuring that compliance is met and information is adequately communicated and/or circulated to all parties involved in the care and education of each individual, while supporting the reviewing process jointly with the Locality Clinical Lead.
• To provide consistent planned and structured (immediate if required) feedback in respect of all matters addressed so as to enhance performance, understanding and service delivery in real time to the provision’s senior management team and also the Group.
• To build positive and constructive relationships with all staff and appointed clinicians involved in delivering the group's 'Integrated Model of Care' across the provision - so as to enhance performance, understanding and service delivery.
• To complete the quality assurance of operational central systems and processes in a structured and strategic manner to ensure adherence to policies and generate meaningful reports/data for the senior management team, supporting governance and to make improvements to local functioning and ensure that the data, which is remotely accessible by the Group, is accurate and relevant to Key Performance Indicator (KPI) incidents.