Senior Intensive Outreach Clinician

Job overview

This job description is written as an indication of the nature and scope of duties and responsibilities. Additional competencies may be required to fulfil the needs of specific areas and client groups. It is not intended as a fully descriptive list and does not include specific skills or therapeutic interventions that may be required of the specialist service area. The post holder will be expected to carry out other duties assigned by the Service Manager, which are appropriate to the grade.

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.

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. Please read Job Description & Person Specification for more information.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

• To provide leadership to the MDT to ensure the delivery of high quality and safe  clinical services
• To ensure that the physical health care and other holistic needs of service users are assessed by team members
• To work with the Service Manager to deliver Integrated Governance  requirements and be responsible for delivering effective governance within the team. This may include contributing to the writing of policy and procedure  documents relating to clinical practice.
• To ensure full compliance of team members with key mechanisms to support clinical delivery including records management, health and social care data  entry, incident reporting, serious untoward incident review and complaints.
• To ensure that practices are in place that assess, determine, and support  Learning and Development, clinical supervision, managerial supervision and  pathway processes.
• To provide clinical supervision.
• To provide clinical leadership to a busy pathway within a locality working  alongside the other leaders in the team to ensure that we develop and deliver a high-quality service that always has service users at its heart.
• To contribute to the day-to-day running of the service and support the clinical leadership across the locality they work in and Islington as a whole. The focus  is on ensuring effective flow, retention of specialisms and supporting patients holistically.
• To lead on complex clinical decision making for referrals and support individuals  to navigate through the Locality Teams to receive the right care at the right time  via effective joint decision making and regular consultation across the Locality Teams.