Band 7 Clinical Lead - Zinnia CMHT

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A community mental health organization in Birmingham seeks a Clinical Lead to provide high-quality assessments and treatment for individuals with severe mental illness. This role involves leading the Community Mental Health Team, supporting risk management, and enhancing the quality of clinical practice. Ideal candidates will have strong assessment skills and experience in leading clinical teams.

Benefits

Relocation expenses reimbursement up to £8,000

Comprehensive training and supervision

Qualifications

• Experience providing high quality assessments and treatment interventions.
• Ability to support service users with severe mental illness.
• Leadership in clinical practice development.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessments and clinical advice to CMHT.
• Lead team members in risk management and problem solving.
• Support CMHT operational efficiency and clinical pathways.

Skills

Robust assessing of a range of mental health issues

Experience in risk identification and management

Ability to build positive relationships

Expert navigation of clinical services

Experience in providing supervision to others

Job description

Overview

You will be joining us at an exciting time of the planning and implementation of community transformation. The role requires working autonomously in providing high quality assessments, reviews, treatment interventions, clinical advice and expertise to the wider MDT in supporting service users with severe and enduring mental illness. The Clinical Lead will work across the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and support the team managers in effective operation of the team by undertaking practice and professional lead responsibility for specified areas of care delivery. You will be responsible for providing additional leadership and guidance to team members in risk assessment, risk management and positive problem solving and lead on debriefs following incidents. You will be responsible for the development and maintenance of effective clinical pathways between CMHT and other services. You will take a leadership role to positively influence and improve the quality of clinical practice by providing support, supervision, educational and professional development opportunities for staff within the CMHT. You will develop confidence and competence within the team for managing complex clinical cases and issues, and take a lead role in the provision of clinical leadership and caseload supervision to the team. You will be expected to act as a positive role model in promoting clinical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality assessments, reviews, treatment interventions, clinical advice and expertise to the wider CMHT and support service users with severe and enduring mental illness.
• Provide leadership and guidance to team members in risk assessment, risk management and positive problem solving; lead debriefs following incidents.
• Undertake practice and professional lead responsibility for specified areas of care delivery and support the team managers in effective operation of the CMHT.
• Develop and maintain effective clinical pathways between CMHT and other services.
• Influence and improve the quality of clinical practice by providing support, supervision, education and professional development opportunities for CMHT staff.
• Develop confidence and competence within the team for managing complex clinical cases and issues.
• Provide clinical leadership and caseload supervision; act as a positive role model to promote clinical excellence.

Qualifications and Experience

• Robust assessing of a range of mental health issues.
• Experience in risk identification and management.
• Ability to build positive relationships across a variety of stakeholder groups.
• Expert navigation of a range of support, VCSE, social and clinical services.
• Co production at all levels.
• Experience in providing supervision to others.

Working for our organisation

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

p>We highly recommend you submit your application as soon as possible, this post may close earlier than the indicated closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Our Trust is committed to treating individuals fairly and ensuring they have the same opportunities to fulfil their potential, even if this means doing things differently for different people sometimes. We are working hard to ensure our workforce reflects the diversity within Birmingham and Solihull and that our services meet the needs of all diverse service users and carers.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice pre-employment checks will be undertaken before any appointment is confirmed. As part of the selection process you may be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check; however, all cases of criminal record history are dealt with on a case by case basis.

Please note: if applicable for your role you will be required to cover the cost of your DBS certificate. This will be deducted from your salary over 3 months. You will also be required to sign up to the DBS Update Service before commencement with the Trust. The Trust will reimburse this. You will be contractually obliged to maintain your subscription.

All successful applicants will be required to complete the Trust's induction programme. The Fundamental (Statutory and Mandatory) training will be in an e-learning format. You will be required to complete training modules online (approximately 9-14 hours depending on post) by the end of your second week with us.

If you are successful at the shortlisting stage of the recruitment process we may contact you via email to advise you of the interview details. Please ensure you access your email account from which you applied regularly once the position has closed.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, please ensure that you check if this role meets the eligibility criteria for sponsorship. Non UK / Republic of Ireland candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here: Browse: Work in the UK - GOV.UK. The minimum salary threshold for a Health and Social Care is £25,000 and for the Skilled Worker route is £38,700. If the starting salary for this role is below this, we will not be able to provide sponsorship.

Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK.

Relocation expenses may be reimbursed subject to eligibility. The policy provides for reimbursement up to £8,000.