Bexley - Clinical Lead - Mental Health

Bexley - Clinical Lead - Mental Health

Full-Time On-site
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This new place-based clinical lead post in mental health sits within the neighbourhood working agenda of NHS South East London ICB. The work centres on leading clinical input into mental health transformation across primary, community and specialist services, covering access, quality, prevention, crisis response and risk management. It pairs clinical expertise with improvement methodology and population health data, and suits a clinician with primary care and community pathway experience. Hybrid working involves travel to several sites.

What the job involves

  • Provide professional clinical leadership to the development of neighbourhood working and integrated neighbourhood teams
  • Lead clinical input into mental health transformation with Place, commissioning and neighbourhood development teams
  • Improve access, quality and integration across primary, community and specialist mental health services
  • Support prevention, crisis response, risk management and parity of esteem in mental health
  • Apply improvement methodology and population health data to develop neighbourhood health models of care
  • Support local teams to deliver neighbourhood care, initially for children and young people with complex needs, frailty and multiple long-term conditions
  • Support health outcomes and benefits realisation frameworks through robust evaluation
  • Support a learning system where best practice is evidenced and scaled
  • Work with clinical colleagues across south east London and regionally
  • Work with system, Place and insights function colleagues

What’s required

Qualifications

  • Qualified clinical professional with a postgraduate degree or higher professional qualification
  • Evidence of continuing professional development

Registration & licences

  • Registration with GMC, NMC, GDC or equivalent body

Experience

  • Significant experience leading and developing staff, including bringing together collaborative groups or networks
  • Detailed understanding of health inequalities and how to address them
  • Using improvement methodology in service design and pathway transformation
  • Engaging patients and the public and co-producing service design and delivery
  • Using evaluation methodology to show value and impact, with outcome measures

Skills & knowledge

  • Influencing policy and strategy, and identifying priorities and dependencies in complex situations
  • Working in partnership with lead clinicians, health professionals and stakeholders across organisations
  • High-level analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, presented clearly and concisely
  • Understanding of population health management and its use in defining need
  • Sound judgement without clear guidance or precedent
  • Detailed knowledge of NHS and/or social care operations

Other

  • Ability to travel to meetings and work across several locations for hybrid working
  • Stamina, energy and ability to work effectively under pressure

Nice to have

  • Project or programme management certification or equivalent experience
  • Leadership training qualification
  • Experience developing outcomes and benefits realisation frameworks, with understanding of value-based healthcare
  • Excellent communication, presenting complex information to different audiences
  • Research design and delivery experience with a supporting publication record
  • Supporting, managing and mentoring direct reports and other staff

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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team