Clinical Lead - Rapid Assessment Psychosis Team (RAPT) in Bexleyheath

We are seeking to recruit an experienced, motivated and innovative clinical lead within the Rapid Assessment Psychosis Team (RAPT). The post holder will provide day to day clinical leadership to ensure timely, safe and effective delivery of care to service users and their families across Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley boroughs.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership, direction and robust clinical decision making across the psychosis teams.
• Ensure the delivery of high quality care by continually developing the service and improving standards.
• Oversee the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions for service users and their families.
• Work alongside staff across the pathway to support and develop their clinical skills and experience.
• Build and maintain the positive reputation of the team and service.
• Provide clinical supervision and consultation to a range of professionals across the psychosis pathway.
• Lead day to day clinical decision making and chair clinical team meetings and forums including referrals, zoning, complex case discussions, reflective practice and discharge planning.
• Enable staff across the pathway to complete person centred clinical risk assessments and formulations and oversee the development of robust safety plans.
• Deliver evidence based NICE concordant interventions for people experiencing psychosis and their families.
• Lead the team to develop proactive and safe discharge plans for service users.
• Develop and maintain partnership working arrangements with a wide range of statutory and voluntary organisations.
• Work with service users and families in a variety of settings, including the person's home and community settings.
• Be directly accountable for own professional action, quality of clinical intervention provided and maintenance of high standards of care within professional codes of practice, ethics and legal standards.
• Develop therapeutic relationships with service users and families and support the team to engage flexibly and creatively to allow access to services and treatments.
• Lead the team to provide culturally appropriate services and interventions for service users and families.

Education / Qualifications

• Mentorship Training or equivalent.
• Evidence of post qualification clinical training, regular updating and ongoing development of role and skills.
• Additional leadership or management related study.

Experience

• Significant experience and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice across varied settings.
• Experience of managing complex cases.
• Experience of leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience contributing to service development, policy implementation, or improvement initiatives.
• Experience of working with people from different backgrounds.

Skills / Abilities / Knowledge

• Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders.
• Good performance management skills, combining clarity around expectations, direction and holding others to account.
• An open and facilitative style of leadership that can be adapted to ensure delivery of objectives.
• Knowledge of the key policies driving work with adults in need of mental health services and rehabilitation.
• Car owner.

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.

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