Clinical Lead

Job overview

The post holder will be responsible for clinical leadership of the Adapt Team.

The post holder will be expected to provide effective leadership for a multi-disciplinary clinical team, providing a high-quality service within the resources available.

The post holder will be expected to ensure the development of services that are comprehensive, flexible and promote a culture of service users and carers’ involvement at every stage of the care pathway.

To lead and manage a multi-professional team of staff with day-to-day clinical responsibility for the team.

To provide effective clinical and operational working through the leadership and management of resources.

The post holder will be expected to ensure the development of services that are comprehensive, flexible and promote a culture of service users and carers’ involvement at every stage of the care pathway.

To provide supervision, mentorship, and leadership for staff within the team.

The post holder is expected to have considerable experience in Mental Health assessment, management, and clinical risk.

The post holder will need to have a good understanding and a high level of competence with therapeutic skills and be responsive and flexible in their approach to working with adult and young people transitioning from CAMHS.

The post holder will be taking lead in the overall clinical pathways of ADAPT service as well as supporting the team and locality manager to ensure quality and timely service delivery.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on

Will be actively involved in rolling out the Structured Clinical Management (SCM); a psychological intervention model to be adapted to our service, the post holder will be expected to be a key player in this service.

• Management of referrals, assessment, and treatment.
• Performance monitoring and management
• Line Management and supervision of staff.
• Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team.
• Participate in recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decisions as designated by the Locality Manager.
• Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation.
• Respond to Safeguarding Adult alerts as appropriate.
• To ensure that there are relevant forums within clinical teams for the dissemination, and embedding of learning points from complaints and serious untoward incidents.
• Ensure equality and diversity is considered in all aspects of the teams business.
• Promote and display via personal actions support for the Trust’s key policies on Equality and Diversity and use of the recovery orientated approach for people with longer term problems
• Ensure that job plans are developed, are reflective of service needs and are regularly reviewed and adjusted to meet the demands of the service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Management of referrals, assessment, and treatment.
• Performance monitoring and management
• Line Management and supervision of staff.
• Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team.
• Ensure that the team functions in line with the agreed operational policy.
• Participate in recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decisions as designated by the Locality Manager.
• Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation.
• Respond to Safeguarding Adult alerts as appropriate.
• Ensure complaints are investigated fully, within the time limits ensuring a proactive approach is standard and in accordance with trust policies.
• To ensure that there are relevant forums within clinical teams for the dissemination, and embedding of learning points from complaints and serious untoward incidents.
• Ensure equality and diversity is considered in all aspects of the teams business.
• Supporting the Trust’s reputation and that of all senior colleagues, maintaining a positive attitude with strong commitment to results.
• Promote and display via personal actions support for the Trust’s key policies on Equality and Diversity and use of the recovery orientated approach for people with longer term problems.
• Work with other team leads to ensure the locality provides a seamless service.
• Ensure that job plans are developed, are reflective of service needs and are regularly reviewed and adjusted to meet the demands of the service.

Performance Management

To provide effective leadership and management to the team that promotes high performance standards and enhances the achievement of the Trust’s objectives and priorities.

Assume overall clinical accountability for the team alongside the team manager.

In the absence of the line manager, to assume responsibility for the day to day operational management of the team ensuring the service is delivered within the agreed structures outlined in the operational policy.

Provide clear and consistent leadership to the workforce of the team and offer professional advice when required.

To engage staff in the delivery of all performance targets for and on behalf of the Trust, to assist the team in improving the quality of the service.

Establish, develop and contribute to service developments within the locality and wider directorate.

Understand the Trust’s key priorities and those of your care group and translate these into key priorities for your care group.

To develop, implement and maintain systems, processes and practice in risk management, including the management of Health and Safety.

• Ensure all aspects of Safeguarding are adhered to and that policies and procedures are followed at all times.
• Effective management of risk of infection ensuring related polices fully complied with and communicated in the team(s).

Lead responsibilities

The Trust’s success will be dependent on all lead playing an active role to make sure the existing areas of good employment practice are universally embedded within the organisation. Lead will be expected to:

Ensure that systems are in place to co-ordinate information about the take up of the services and to establish unmet needs and action plans to address those.

Provide regular reports as required in connection with financial management and performance monitoring of agreed service targets.

Ensure management of staff is consistent with Trust’s HR Policies to the achievement of equality, equity and optimum performance.

Conduct and contribute to the PDR process for all staff within the team which reflect Trust and local priorities and ensure staff has access to appropriate training and development.

Co-ordinate and develop the practice and culture of the MDT team through close liaising with clinical leads around recruitment and service delivery.

Ensure appropriate supervision takes place in line with Trust policy.

Communicate regularly through team meetings, team briefings, clinical forums. and individually with team members providing an opportunity for two-way feedback.

Ensure that service users and carers opinions and experiences are being responded to at a team level.

Actively participate in the development of policies and procedures pertaining to the service.

Ensure effective leadership and management, continuous service development, improvement and high-quality service delivery.

To ensure care is locally delivered, at the right time and is service user/ carer focussed.

Education and Training

Ensure that mandatory training requirements are fulfilled, and compliance is actively monitored.

Ensure that systems are in place to monitor the effectiveness of staff’s skills/ knowledge acquisition from delivered training.

Ensure own professional development through supervision and appraisal.

Ensure that all training needs of staff are discussed in supervision sessions and are in accordance with the local training strategy and team up skilling annual plans.

Communication

Ensure effective communication systems and structures are in place to facilitate the dissemination of information relating to patient’s risk profiles and ensure that clear discharge planning is in place to facilitate prompt discharge from inpatient services.

Ensure that the team has a structure of clinical governance that allows the maintenance of clinical records and other patient documentation to the agreed compliance standard for the Trust.

Research / Audit

Initiate and participate in audit processes in order to inform best practice and evaluation of the service.

Ability to apply new research findings into clinical practice.