Intensive Outreach Pathway Lead

Job overview

The post holder will act as the Senior Clinician within the Intensive Outreach Pathway in the Core Teams. The pathway provides healthcare and treatment to adults experiencing a high level of inpatient admissions, severe and enduring psychosis, who have found it hard to engage with mental health services. The role will focus on the clinical management and effective leadership of the Intensive Outreach Pathway within a Core Team.

The post holder will carry a caseload of the most complex service users in the service, in addition to providing leadership and consultation to other professionals in the team. As such, the post holder will be required to have significant clinical skill and knowledge underpinned by experience, and specialist training / academic study.

Main duties of the job

• To provide pathway leadership, ensuring that there is effective coordination between staff and disciplines working within the pathway.
• To ensure that service users experience timely high-quality holistic wrap around support appropriate to their needs within the pathway.
• To ensure that the pathway is well connected to partners and services within the community and this fully integrated within the pathway offer.
• To ensure that the pathway works with the single point of access and other interfaces to ensure that transition in and out of the pathway is supportive and focuses on holistic needs.
• To ensure that service provided within the pathway is recorded using agreed tools.
• To ensure that there are effective mechanisms in place to ensure that agreed data is captured to measure both the quality and effective delivery of the service.
• To oversee governance and quality processes within the pathway.
• To provide supervision to pathway staff as agreed with the Service Manager.
• To ensure effective internal and external communication processes are in place within the pathway.
• To ensure that the pathway integrates effectively with the team and there is pathway representation in relevant team and division meetings and processes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The service aims are:

• To offer early assessment, diagnosis and treatment of service users who meet the criteria for Assertive Community Treatment. To offer person centred, individual, culturally sensitive care, with an emphasis on increasing stability, skill development and developing social roles. To work within a Trauma Informed Approach and to recognise that service users requiring Assertive Community Treatment may have experienced trauma in their lives. To work collaboratively as part of the Core Team in providing support and care for service users who have difficulties engaging with treatment. To maximise both symptomatic and social recovery for service users who meet the criteria for Assertive Community Treatment through effective engagement with service users. To proactively identify carers and to provide support and education to carers and involve them as fully as possible in service users' care.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.