FACT Clinical Lead

Job overview

Are you will be an experienced Mental Health clinician (Registered Nurse, Social Worker or Occupational Therapist)?

Are you interested in working with an outstanding Trust to develop and deliver community treatment in mental health?

We are seeking to recruit a FACT Clinical lead to join the Adult Community Mental Health Service (ACMHS) in St Albans.

The Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) team provide assertive support to a wider range of individuals who require an enhanced level of support for specific time period .

The FACT team operates as a mini team within the wider adult community services 7 days per week, 9-5 pm. The FACT team  works with individuals and their families experiencing a mental illness. This will include those already open to the adult mental health service who might experience a deterioration in the metal health , those ready to leave hospital after a period of care and those newly referred into services who would benefit from time limited , focused intervention to support their recovery

The service will provide time-limited, personalised pathways of care in order to  achieve better social, emotional and psychological outcomes.  The range of interventions will vary from practical care and support; the delivery of social care enablement interventions;  psychologically informed interventions and the monitoring of medication.

Main duties of the job

You will manage Mental Health & Wellbeing Practitioners and Support Time and Recovery (STaR) workers and other staff, ensuring that the needs of service users are met through the effective deployment of these staff. S/he will also maintain a clinical role and/ or a caseload dependent on sector need.

You will contribute at a local level to the development and implementation of policies and procedures.

You will Lead may on occasion provide support to the ACMHS leadership staff as directed by the Community Mental Health Services Manager in his or her absence, as agreed with the Service   Line Leader.

You will ensure, in collaboration with other professional colleagues that professional practice meets standards as set by HPFT and/or professional statutes and bodies.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To plan, prioritise and manage the delivery of a health and social care assessment, psychologically informed care and treatment service to service users open to FACT, including overseeing referrals and ensuring that there is an even and appropriate distribution of work across the team, based on the experience of team members.

To oversee referrals and the allocation of service users to workers, ensuring that caseloads are monitored, and managed and care packages are maintained under the auspices of CPA.

To ensure that there are adequate staff numbers organised appropriately around service user needs and to incorporate this into FACT rota planning.

To ensure that risks relating to service users, unmet needs and to the work environment are assessed and managed appropriately, ensuring that all team members know and understand their role in risk management.

To provide operational supervision ensure the provision of clinical caseload supervision to all team members. Where necessary to make arrangements for appropriate professional supervision to be available to all team members.

Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification for more indepth information before applying