Clinical Team Leader, Perinatal Mental Health Service

Job overview

Location - North West Essex. (The post holder may be required to work across Essex and/or in any location in the Trust area)

The post holder will contribute to facilitating the transformation of the perinatal service to meet best practice standards including NICE Guidelines Antenatal and Postnatal Mental Health (2014) and Royal College of Psychiatrist Quality Network Standards 6th edition 2020.

As a clinical lead within a team, you will bring with you a range of knowledge and experiences and have an established community mental health service knowledgebase. These personal attributes will enable you to effectively lead a dynamic and diverse team of practitioners and work positively with the multidisciplinary leadership team to shape the service going forwards. You must also have the ability to network, establish and maintain positive working relationships with other stakeholders across Essex.

Successful candidates will demonstrate knowledge and interest in mental health during the perinatal period together with sound knowledge of child and adult safeguarding practice. Good communication, collaborative partnership working, time management and planning skills are essential. Some previous experience of working with this group would be an advantage.

Main duties of the job

The Essex Perinatal Mental Health Service is a growing team of skilled and compassionate professionals who have successfully established a new specialist service in the community across the county over the last three years and we are again expanding further to meet the needs of more women across Essex. This is an exciting opportunity for Band 7 Perinatal Clinical lead to join our dedicated and growing leadership team with expertise in this field.

The service operates from five Hubs across Essex with a north facing and south facing team concept, providing a stepped-care model of specialist assessment and intervention for women at risk of moderate or serious mental illness or complex disorders within the county of Essex. The successful candidate will be the clinical lead of the North West hub  of Essex area, taking management and clinical responsibility for the community MDT and working clinical leadership duties within that hub being part of the service development and expansion for those areas.

The successful candidate will also be required to contribute to the ongoing service development to improve the quality of delivery of care, clinical practice and partnership working with key services. Fostering a good multi-disciplinary team framework together with our Perinatal Practitioners, Perinatal Psychologists, Perinatal Consultant Psychiatrists, Nursery Nurses, Parenting Counsellor and other new roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical/Professional/Specific Managerial Responsibilities

ADDITIONAL DUTIES

In addition to the above duties you will also be expected to perform the below key activities in line with your job role;

• Complete mandatory training in line with Trust policy and procedures

• To participate in the staff appraisal process and to undertake for any staff you manage

• To keep yourself updated on all matters relating to Trust policy

• To provide management supervision where appropriate

• You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working shifts, where appropriate and operationally required.