North Warwickshire Community Mental Health Clinical Lead in Nuneaton

This is a unique opportunity to be at the lead and develop our Early Intervention and Adult Community Mental Health Team in North Warwickshire. The teams support those with severe mental illness, working in a recovery-focused, trauma-informed way to provide the best care possible to the residents of North Warwickshire. The service is being developed in conjunction with health, social care, statutory and voluntary sector partners to have an integrated service with partnership working.

You will work alongside other clinical leads across the trust, including those in other CMH services as well as specialist leads, to provide collaborative expertise and support across all of our services.

Main duties of the job:

• The successful applicant will be based across North Warwickshire, with the expectation of clinically leading the Community Mental Health and Early Intervention teams.
• You will be part of the overall health and social care management and leadership team.
• You will work alongside managers/clinical leads to develop the service and support staff with complex caseload management by providing joint working, professional guidance and supervision.
• You will be responsible for developing the model of practice, evidence-based interventions and outcome monitoring, as well as liaising with other agencies, charities and voluntary sectors (Rethink/MIND/CGL etc).
• You will be responsible for service audits, safety and quality aspects of care delivery and in charge of any learning on a clinical level.
• Patient flow will be a key area of this role, especially working with internal and external partners.

We encourage staff development, and you will be supported throughout your supervision and appraisal process to develop your skills and reach your potential. The service received an overall rating of Good by the CQC and an Outstanding for care and compassion, of which we are rightly proud. We have also been recognised both locally and nationally by receiving awards for the services we provide.

Job responsibilities:

• To have oversight and leadership of the caseload management, duty function, clinical development of the service and supervision.
• You will need to have excellent communication skills, high clinical standards, and be able to build positive relationships with a variety of internal and external partners.

Person Specification:

Qualifications:

• Relevant Professional Qualification
• Training in working with people who are experiencing mental ill health.
• Current Registration with relevant professional body with unrestricted practice
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Experience:

• Significant experience and competence in working in a community setting with people experiencing mental ill health.
• Evidence of effective caseload management.
• Experience of supervising registered and/or non-registered staff (including students)
• Significant experience of risk assessment and positive risk management.

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.