Band 7 Senior Practitioner (PCLS) - Swindon

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Swindon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional mental health service provider in Swindon is seeking a leader to inspire and manage a team delivering high-quality mental health services. The role involves clinical leadership, supporting care pathways, and ensuring effective service delivery to improve patient outcomes while balancing competing demands.

Qualifications

• Leadership skills in mental health services.
• Ability to inspire and motivate a team.
• Strong clinical practice and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team in providing rapid access to mental health advice.
• Support effective identification of care pathways.
• Promote improved understanding of mental health care.

Job description

Job overview

To provide leadership, supervision, support, and consultation to staff within the MDT, in line with the relevant clinical pathway as outlined within the operational procedures.

Being an inspirational leader, practicing and sharing excellent clinical practice while motivating others to deliver a high-quality service. Balancing competing demands across key result areas, keeping the needs of service users and carers at the heart of service delivery. Able to challenge operational issues effectively to ensure that service users receive the most appropriate support in their journey.

Main duties of the job

To lead and inspire the team to provide Primary Care Services with rapid access to specialist mental health advice and support.

To provide clinical leadership supporting effective identification of care pathways and transfer into secondary mental health services where indicated, whilst supporting a reduction in premature transitions to secondary mental health care due to lack of expertise to manage low to moderate mental health needs.

To undertake and support the specialist assessment of physiological and/or psychological functioning for service users with complex mental health and wellbeing needs.

The promotion of improved understanding and confidence in delivering mental health care, in collaboration with all agencies involved in the care of service users.

To lead, ensuring the service develops and maintains excellent clinical standards and effective caseload supervision, underpinned by robust individual and team supervision processes.

To oversee and ensure effective risk management plans and strategies across the team for service users and carers, considering risks to service users, carers, the organization, staff, and the public.

Develop and maintain communication with a wide range of agencies about complex matters or situations to share, develop, or resolve difficult issues for the benefit of service users, carers, and the service.