# FACT Clinical Lead > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/fact-clinical-lead/cea98156-65dd-4a27-889a-7ddc8065c903 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/fact-clinical-lead/cea98156-65dd-4a27-889a-7ddc8065c903.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Hatfield - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £48,270 - £54,931 per annum pro rata (5% fringe HCAS included) - **Contract type:** Secondment: 6 months - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The Fact Service operates at weekends so there may be some weekend work required.) - **Closing date:** 2025-02-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2025-01-27T12:10:58.934Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hertfordshire/St_Albans/Hertfordshire_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community_Adult_Mental_Health/Community_Adult_Mental_Health-v6964838?_ts=1 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/6964838?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.hpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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. ## 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 ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Strong post qualifying experience of working with people with mental health problems in the community - Experience of providing clinical and management supervision **Desirable** - Experience of work as Approved Mental Health Professional and/or Best Interests Assessor - Experience of working in an integrated health and social care environment - Involvement in the development of a new service or of change management ### Qualifications **Essential** - RMN/DipSW/CQSW/OT qualification - Evidence of current registration with NMC, GSCC or HPC **Desirable** - Cert or Dip. in management ### Skills, Knowledge, Abilities **Essential** - Clear understanding of the needs of people with mental health difficulties - Up to date knowledge of relevant legislation, theory and policies relating to mental health; such as Community Care Legislation, Mental Health Act, the Personalisation agenda, Social Inclusion etc - The ability to lead a multi-professional team and provide ongoing operational, clinical and professional supervision - The ability to assess complex needs and work effectively with service users, their carers and social networks - Able to establish and maintain effective links with statutory and non-statutory partners - The ability to prioritise work and deliver to agreed time scales and standards - Excellent team working skills, with the ability to negotiate compromise and resolve conflict - Able to write structured, detailed and clear reports and record client information in accordance with statutory requirements and trust’s guidelines - Have a clear understanding of the key strategic issues for mental health services - Commitment to working within equal opportunities and anti discriminatory practice ## Documents - [refer a friend (pdf, 160.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2083) - [staff benefits (pdf, 888.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2165) - [functional requirement (pdf, 200.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9177641) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 752.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9177640) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.