Clinical Lead

NHS; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in Hull and East Yorkshire is seeking a Clinical Lead to join their multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate must be a registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse with leadership experience, ready to enhance the delivery of care. Responsibilities include providing senior duty cover and managing clinical developments. The role promises excellent development opportunities within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Enhanced leave package

Health and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Full understanding of relevant policy and legislation.
• Membership in a recognized professional body with current registration.
• Specialized understanding of leadership and service area.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior duty cover on weekends and bank holidays.
• Enhance and deliver work in acute mental health settings.
• Lead and develop clinical teams in a challenging environment.

Skills

Leadership

Team building

Interpersonal skills

Change management

Education

Registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse

Accredited leadership qualification

Job description

Are you a registered Mental Health or Learning Disability Nurse ? Do you have a passion for excellent care? Are you excited by service improvement? Do you strive towards continued personal development and developing exceptionally skilled teams of clinicians? If the answer is yes, then we want to hear from you.

We have a very exciting opportunity for a Clinical Lead to join our multi disciplinary team of professionals who deliver exceptional care within the acute assessment of mental health functional and organic inpatient wards at Maister Lodge and Maister Court.

The service is looking for an enthusiastic individual with acute mental health leadership experience, to enhance and deliver the work being undertaken to optimise the Trust's acute / unplanned pathway.

There is an expectation that you will provide senior Band 7 duty cover on a Saturday, Sunday and bank holiday to the wider unplanned adult and older adult inpatient services as part of rotational cover shared amongst the other Band 7's in the division. This currently works out at around 1 in every 15 weekends with opportunity for additional if desired on both weekends or evenings.This is supported by the weekend MDT, covering all inpatients for emergency MDT discussions, and is led by the Band 7 on duty and an inpatient on call consultant.

Main duties of the job

We're looking for a talented and knowledgeable registered professional who is highly motivated with an excellent work ethos to join our friendly and supportive team.

This position requires an inspirational, innovative and creative leader who can strengthen the management of ongoing clinical developments and delivery of care within our older people's mental health wards and the wider Inpatient Service, as part of the senior clinical leadership team.

The nature of this complex patient group ensures that Maister Lodge and Maister Court are a dynamic and often challenging environment. It would suit a professional who wishes to further develop their skills in evidence-based clinical practice and leadership

Utilising creativity and engagement skills, the co-management of a diverse multi-disciplinary group will be central to this role. Working closely with the Team Leader, Modern Matron, Service Manager and other senior professionals, you will be supported and encouraged to progress.

The role requires the candidate to embrace and promote change and you must be able to demonstrate your adaptability to various situations. The ideal candidate will always have at the forefront of their mind, the need to support service users, carers, and the staff team in a positive, responsive, and compassionate manner.

In return we offer excellent development opportunities, and access to wider peer support from an incredibly experienced and support group of colleagues.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire.Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range ofbenefitsthat go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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Job responsibilities

For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area
• Be a member of a recognised professional body and hold a current professional registration
• An accredited leadership qualification or be able to demonstrate advanced leadership and management skills; motivation, team building, developing positive interpersonal relationships, negotiation, conflict resolution, problem solving, managing change, being creative
• Specialist/advanced understanding/application of relevant managerial and leadership aspects of the service area
• A breadth of clinical and professional practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held

Experience

• Evidence of sound post-registration professional practice
• Leadership/management experience which has had a positive impact and created change within the service delivery/practice
• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships

Skills and competencies

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising and mentoring and teaching
• Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.