Older Adult Clinical Lead in London

The Westminster Older Adults and Health Ageing Community Mental Health Team is a dynamic multidisciplinary service providing mental health support to older adults in Westminster with functional disorders and dementia. It is co-located with the Westminster City Council mental health team, offering a holistic approach to care. The team operates using a case management, intervention-led and recovery-focused model, offering multidisciplinary assessments and interventions for service users with complex needs, as well as their families and carers. Regular multidisciplinary meetings facilitate case discussions, initial assessments, and reflective practice. A key feature of the service is the integrated older adults home treatment team, which delivers intensive support, crisis management, admission prevention, and helps ensure timely hospital discharges. The CMHT and HTT teams collaborate closely, offering a responsive and flexible service to meet the needs of service users. Coordination with older adults inpatient services allows smooth transitions of care.

The service promotes a friendly, respectful work environment where staff receive professional development, including supervision and appraisals. Involvement of service users and carers is a core element of the service's design and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide older adults clinical leadership in the community mental health team.
• Lead on clinical practice, standards and pathways; providing clinical and managerial leadership to support the team manager.
• Provide specialist advice, assessment, formulation and delivery of brief interventions for older adults with complex mental health conditions and dementia.
• Develop older adults care pathways in the community, focusing on integrating with community services.
• Support workforce development, particularly community mental health nursing and allied health professionals.
• Flexible shift working opportunities for a healthier work-life balance.
• Commitment from the team to develop you by offering coaching and in-house development sessions.
• Free access to the Staff and Wellbeing service.
• Commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development.
• Shadowing opportunities including HTT, Psych Liaison and many more.
• Local Reflective Practice forums run by one of the senior leads.
• Opportunity to work with a friendly, dynamic, passionate and diverse team.

Benefits

• Excellent staff benefits including childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, discounts at various retailers, and more.
• Award-winning Staff Networks and annual award ceremonies.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership for staff within the service.
• Assist the team manager in developing a model of working with service users with complex needs.
• Deputise for the team manager as needed.
• Lead on the day-to-day operational and clinical management of the service.
• Participate in and lead meetings as appropriate.
• Show demonstrable and comprehensive experience of working with older adults/ those with complex physical and mental health needs.
• Provide advice and support to other practitioners with the assessment and management of service users' needs and risks.
• Provide expert advice and consultation in professional matters.
• Manage a small caseload as needed, including providing access and/or delivering a broad range of psychosocial interventions.
• Work within the relevant legislative frameworks.
• Ensure that the team works within the relevant frameworks and policies for safeguarding vulnerable adults.
• Demonstrate a high level of clinical competence.
• Ensure effective liaison with other relevant agencies.
• Maintain and develop administrative procedures regarding the recording of case records.
• Ensure that service users are involved in the development of the team and local services.