Band 7 Clinical Lead - Zinnia CMHT | Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust; Wake Green; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health service provider in the UK seeks a Band 7 Clinical Lead to join the Community Mental Health Team. This role entails providing high-quality assessments, supporting complex clinical cases, leading team development, and promoting clinical excellence. Ideal candidates will possess strong skills in risk management and relationship building, and have experience supervising others. Join a committed team improving mental health services for the community.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in overseeing mental health issues and providing clinical supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to manage risk and build positive relationships.
• Expert in navigating support systems and fostering collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality assessments and treatment interventions.
• Lead and guide team members in risk management.
• Maintain clinical pathways between CMHT and other services.
• Promote clinical excellence and support team development.
• Oversee complex clinical cases.

Skills

Robust assessing of mental health issues

Risk identification and management

Relationship building across stakeholder groups

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Clinical Lead within Zinnia CMHT. 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. They will be responsible for the development and maintenance of effective clinical pathways between CMHT and other services. The lead role involves positively influencing and improving the quality of clinical practice by providing support, supervision, educational and professional development opportunities for staff within the CMHT. They 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. They will be expected to act as a positive role model in promoting clinical excellence. 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality assessments, reviews, treatment interventions, clinical advice and expertise to the wider MDT in supporting service users with severe and enduring mental illness.
• Provide leadership and guidance to team members in risk assessment, risk management and positive problem solving, and lead on debriefs following incidents.
• Work across the 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.
• Be responsible for the development and maintenance of effective clinical pathways between CMHT and other services.
• 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.
• Develop confidence and competence within the team for managing complex clinical cases and issues.
• Take a lead role in the provision of clinical leadership and caseload supervision to the team.
• Act as a positive role model in promoting clinical excellence.

Qualifications and Experience

• Robust assessing of a range of mental health issues.
• Risk identification and management.
• Positive relationship building 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.