Clinical Lead for Mental Health

Job overview

Oxleas adult learning disability services are excited to welcome applications for the role of clinical lead for mental health. This pivotal role oversees three mental health in learning disability nursing teams across Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich, including the newly created 'Mental Health In-reach' service, which offers expert learning disability nursing support to Oxleas' acute mental health wards. The clinical lead will also hold a small complex case load within the Bromley community learning disability team.

Main duties of the job

• Providing high quality specialist nursing intervention and leadership, at a local team level, to meet the mental health needs of adults with learning disabilities, living in Bromley.
• Overseeing mental health in learning disability nursing practice at a service wide level, across the boroughs of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich.
• Supporting the development of effective pathways and strategies, relevant to mental health in learning disability nursing, across all three boroughs.
• Supervising the senior community learning disability nurses in each of the Mental Health in Learning Disability (MHinLD) teams, across the three boroughs of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich.
• Supervising the clinical nurse specialist for mental health, within the mental health in-reach service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Be an autonomous practitioner, able to assess, interpret clinical findings, develop a clinical formulation and implement a treatment plan.
• Provide clinical expertise, leadership, supervision and support across the Mental Health in Learning Disability (MHinLD) nursing pathways.
• Manage a local caseload, within the Bromley MHinLD team.
• Review and lead on quality improvement initiatives/audits.
• Attend the directorate Clinical Effectiveness Group, updating on clinical leadership developments within the MHinLD nursing pathway.
• Analyse and manage highly complex changing health and social care situations.
• Prioritise referrals/unscheduled calls at short notice due to sudden changes in clinical presentation, or social care requirements.
• Maintain effective multidisciplinary/multi-agency communication to ensure the highest quality of risk assessment and care planning, and/or review.
• To ensure key performance Indicators and quality information is maintained and produced.