Clinical Lead

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking a Liaison and Diversion Clinical Lead to provide strategic clinical leadership and support individuals in the criminal justice system. Responsibilities include leading Care Teams, promoting service user involvement, and ensuring high standards of clinical practice. Required qualifications include a degree and extensive clinical experience. This role offers a chance to make a significant impact on vulnerable individuals within the justice system.

Benefits

Flexible working requests considered

Commitment to diversity and equality

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years experience in clinical practice.
• Must have qualification/training in criminal justice mental health related.
• Ability to exercise high degree of personal and professional autonomy.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic clinical leadership.
• Lead and coordinate work of Care Teams.
• Ensure high standards of service delivery.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Clinical effectiveness promotion

Service user involvement

Education

Registered Nurse Mental Health

Degree level education or equivalent

Evidence of post-graduate professional qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Liaison and Diversion Clinical Lead.

Liaison and Diversion is a process of support of people coming through the criminal justice system, and diverting people from this pathway where possible through engagement with service users with vulnerabilities. A significant part of the role is liaising with criminal justice system stakeholders and colleagues to provide advice, guidance and support.

This post is subject to Police Vetting and full NPPV Level 3 Police Vetting.

Main duties of the job

To provide strategic clinical leadership in relation to an area of specialismusing the most up to date and evidence based theory.

To undertake expert assessment, planning, implementation and evaluationof care for a specific group of service users.

To offer expert clinical advice for service users, carers, staff and otherprofessionals.

To demonstrate advanced competence in highly complex decision making,assessment and the management of clinical needs within the specialistarea of practice.

To work in partnership with service users, carers and other agencies toensure effectiveness of outcomes.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Job responsibilities

To provide professional leadership to the teams (in line with servicephilosophy), acting as a role model and demonstrating up to dateknowledge of mental health issues and awareness of physical healthneeds, through the development of professional expertise and themaintenance of professional networks.

To promote the mental and physical well-being of Service Users byensuring health promotion, psychological, rehabilitation and educationalneeds are addressed

To lead and coordinate the work of Care Teams, ensuring that theiractivities encompass all facets of Service Users care and are achievedin line with all Trust and local policies and procedures.

To actively seek the view of Service Users and Carers in thedevelopment and monitoring of services, ensuring high standards of caredelivery.

To ensure that Service Users care plans are developed to meet theassessed needs of the individual under the guidelines of Effective CareCoordination, including effective care pathways for Service Users andCarers.

To be a point of contact for Service Users and families if they have anyconcerns about their care, to listen to their concerns and employ highlydeveloped communication skills, to offer reassurance or negotiatesolution.

To employ well-established communication skills to relay sensitive orcontentious information to staff, Service Users or their carers.To use well-established verbal and non-verbal communication skills tointeract with staff, Service Users or their families where there may bebarriers to understanding due to high levels of emotion or resistance.

To provide verbal or written reports as requested by other departmentsor the Operational Team Manager on a variety of issues, e.g.complaints, incidents or investigations.

To maintain a high level of expertise in your area of work i.e. Policiesand Procedures, clinical practice and staff management, in order toensure delivery of high standards of practice in all areas.

To carry out regular audits that will identify areas of good practice, basedon sound research findings. Assist the Operational Team Manager inthe implementation of change.

To ensure that clinical and non-clinical risk is identified and dealt withappropriately. To report to the Operational Manager any risk that cannotbe managed at an acceptable level without external support.

To assist the Operational Team Manager in effectively managing thefactors which have an impact on service delivery, e.g. finances,resources, Service User dependency and staff sickness/absence levels.

To manage sickness/absence by following agreed policies and ensurethat appropriate actions are taken at all stages.

To identify to the Operational Team Manager areas for Servicedevelopment in your area of responsibility.To ensure high standards of service delivery within the work setting.

To ensure that Service Governance is an integral part of the businesswithin the Teams, ensure that all Staff are aware of the ServiceGovernance agenda, and how to influence it.

To participate in local implementation of Trust Policy and ensure it isadhered to within the Teams. Report to your Line Manager any policywhich causes problems in its delivery

To provide feedback, as requested on Trust Policies, to ensure that theviews of the team are represented.

To ensure that all staff are working within the framework of CareProgramme Approach including assessment, care planning, review andaudit.

To ensure the effective coordination of interviews for posts and appointment of new staff.To liaise with the Operational Team Manager re any disciplinary orgrievance issues arising with staff within the Teams and to takeresponsibility for resolving disciplinary and grievance issues, in line withthe scheme of delegation.

To co-ordinate annual Personal Development Plans (PACE) thatincorporates staff training and development needs.

To provide verbal and written feedback to appropriate individualsfollowing formal meetings, e.g. sickness and absence or performanceissues.

To exercise judgement in the interpretation of policies and proceduresinfluencing your role, seeking advice and assistance as appropriate. Tocontribute to the development of directorate protocols.

To take responsibility for carrying out investigations, as directed, intoincidents or complaints received by the Trust. Ensure that theinvestigation is completed within stated timescales and that conclusions /recommendations are recorded in a clear, objective and unambiguousway.

To contribute to the business plan and ensure it is cascaded to all staff.Ensure that staff has every opportunity to influence the process.

To assist the Operational Team Manager in managing the budgets,including any devolved budget from Social Care. To manage theresources which may impact on this. Report issues which may have animpact on budgets.

To ensure all new staff receives induction, participating as necessary.

To ensure this is recorded on personal files.

We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from BAME, disabled and LGBT people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trusts guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the recruitment team to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.

We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional Registration e.g. Registered Nurse Mental Health, Allied Health Professionals, Social Worker
• Educated to degree level or equivalent
• Minimum of 3 years experience in clinical practice
• Evidence of post-graduate professional qualification, PSI Cert/diploma
• Masters Degree
• Qualification / training in criminal justice mental health related

Knowledge/Experience

• A demonstrated understanding of Equality and Human Rights
• The post holder would be expected to have extensive abilities in delivering innovation and quality in clinical practice, demonstrating leadership skills, change management expertise and the delivery of clinical developments that have tangible results for patients
• Will have experience of promoting clinical effectiveness & standards setting via audit & governance frameworks.
• Will also be able to demonstrate training and teaching expertise in applied settings.
• Will be service user focused with a track record that includes examples of clinical practice that have required collaborative interdisciplinary work to improve adult services.
• Ability to exercise a high degree of personal and professional autonomy and critical judgement.
• Will require an in-depth knowledge of clinical care with significant evidence of post -registration development activity.
• Must be able to demonstrate a commitment to service user involvement.
• Be able to work autonomously in a self - motivating style.
• Will possess excellent leadership and communication skills.
• Will have the ability to reflect on experience & generate a learning culture.
• Ability to undertake research and record of scholarship.
• Computer literate with a working knowledge of standard formats including spreadsheets and data management.
• Ability to disseminate in a professional manner to a range of professionals at regional and national level as evidenced by presentations at conference and/or publications in peer reviewed journals.
• Highly effective interpersonal skills and will be a recognisable role model for staff and patients.
• Articulate and effective communicator.
• 2 - 3 years at Band 6 or above
• Experience of Criminal Justice Liaison

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

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.