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About
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) provides integrated community and mental health, learning disability and social care services of the highest standard due to our continued commitment to quality and service improvement. We aim to support people of all ages to achieve the very best they can for their health and well being. To ensure that we achieve this goal we look to recruit candidates of a high calibre that share our passion for delivering excellent service user care, research and education.
Clinical Lead
Closed for applications on: 9-Aug-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 9-Aug-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Kingfisher House
- Town
- Huntingdon
- Postcode
- PE29 6FN
- Major / Minor Region
- Cambridgeshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Adults & Specialist Mental Health Services
Job overview
We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Clinical Lead (Mental Health Practitioner) to join our First Response Service.
We provide 24-hour access to mental health services for individuals of all ages experiencing a mental health crisis. If you join us, you will be part of a pioneering and award-winning team, working closely with community agencies such as the police, ambulance services, and local authorities to develop short-term contingency plans for those in crisis. The working environment includes exposure to high levels of distress in others and at times can be high pressured. Lone working in the community is a major element of this job as is potential exposure to verbal and physical aggression.
The Clinical Lead role includes working 1:1 with service users (both over the phone triage and face to face assessments) and working collaboratively to develop crisis and safety plans, however as a leader, you will also be responsible for supporting the wider team and will have expertise in risk assessment and safety planning.
We are keen to support and develop our staff through a clear career pathway and encourage promotional opportunities within the Trust. If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team striving to make a difference for our community want to hear from you.
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· Co-ordinate the shift and allocate work (including referrals or assessments) to the team.
· Conduct telephone triage and community face-to-face assessments for individuals experiencing a mental health crisis, a Clinical Lead may support with any particularly complex cases, including giving advice to other member's of the team, or taking a lead on these assessments themselves.
· Provide brief clinical risk assessments, mental health formulations, and develop short-term contingency plans for callers using 111 option 2 or referrals from other professionals
· Liaise with other professionals and agencies, either taking referrals from them or giving advice. This may include emergency services, GP's, local authorities, school's and care home's for example.
· Work closely with other mental health services, including secondary care teams, primary care mental health and other acute / crisis services.
· Implement brief solution-focused interventions to empower patients, carers, and families in problem-solving and decision-making.
· Collaboratively develop safe and appropriate care plans, utilising strong communication and assessment skills.
· Excellent understanding of the resources offered by other external agencies in order to offer people the support they require for their personal and specific needs.
This post is open to professionals with the right attributes to enhance a team. In return we will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
Co-ordinate each shift.
Provide evidence based clinical interventions, making autonomous clinical decisions about own professional practice.
Responsibility for the development, planning and implementation of brief care and treatment interventions for individual patients in liaison with the First Response Service.
Provide assessment, planning and implementation of individual packages of care and treatment.
Ensure that individual episodes of care are delivered in a timely, effective and integrated manner.
Promote a recovery model that empowers patients, carers and relatives to be at the forefront of decision making and ownership of their packages of care and treatment.
Undertake clinical risk assessments, based on latest empirical evidence and compliant with local policies and procedures.
Act as the patients and relatives advocate.
Enable patients and carers to manage disability, loss and change.
Champion patients’ rights, including: dignity, equality, diversity, choice and respect.
When undertaking all of the above ensure good documentation is provided and entered within the appropriate systems of record sharing.
Escalate concerns.
Delegate duties and prioritise urgency of assessments.
Here at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) we are dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion. We deliver many of the NHS services that are provided outside of hospital and in the community such as physical, mental health and specialist services.
We are a health and social care organisation, offering a wide range of services, including:
- Integrated physical and mental health services for adults and older people;
- Specialist mental health and learning disability services;
- Children and young people’s mental health services;
- Children’s community services in Peterborough;
- Social care;
- Ground-breaking research
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities. For further information about our positive equality, diversity and Inclusion work, please visit https://www.cpft.nhs.uk/equalityanddiversity.
CPFT is looking to build upon its pool of temporary workers with Temporary Staffing Services (TSS). You will be asked at interview if you would be willing to register with TSS. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to take on additional hours that are flexible around your personal circumstances.
Please be advised that in line with the WHO Health Workforce Support and Safeguards List, 2020 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust currently are unable to accept applications from overseas candidates whose country of residence is classed as a ‘Red List’ country.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
Applicants who require entry into the UK will be required to provide a valid police certificate from the relevant authority from each country (except the UK) where the applicant has been present for 12 months or more, 10 years before the date of visa application, while aged 18 or over.
If you are successful at interview you will be subject to pre-employment checks, including a DBS (if appropriate), references and Occupational Health. To ensure a smooth process please bring all identity documents to your interview. A list of required identity documents will be attached to your interview invitation.
All communications will be sent to you via TRAC Systems. By applying for this post you are agreeing to CPFT transferring the information contained in this application to TRAC. If you are made an offer, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Social work Qualification
- Mental Health Nurse Qualification/ NMC Registration.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Undertaken/working towards accredited courses which enable potential Advanced Practitioner registration.
- Teaching (clinical practice) qualification/certificate or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Advanced Nurse Prescriber Qualification / or AMPH qualification
- Leadership qualification/training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Mental health care/treatment relevant to service.
- Working with people presenting in mental health crisis.
- Teaching, training and/or supervision of clinical staff.
- Multi-agency working/working across service interfaces.
- Working within a multicultural framework.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Assessing, formulating and working with people presenting in heightened state of distress.
- Communicating (oral and written) complex/highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and other professional colleagues both within and outside the NHS.
- Clinical risk assessment and contingency planning.
- Able to meet the service needs for mobility across the geographical area covered.
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jade Nightingale
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01480 757365
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