Clinical Lead

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Clinical Lead for the Aintree CORE24 service to provide visionary leadership in urgent mental health care within Aintree University Hospital. The role focuses on leading a multidisciplinary team, developing pathways and improving service delivery.

You will work with the leadership team to ensure responsive assessments, timely access to services, and ongoing service development, while engaging with staff, patients and carers to drive improvements.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in urgent mental health care.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Commitment to high-quality patient care.

Responsibilities

• Assist in development and implementation of integrated care pathways.
• Lead and collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to deliver urgent mental health services.
• Participate in recruitment, selection and induction of new staff.
• Coordinate and monitor service delivery to ensure timely access to care.
• Ensure effective communication within the team and with stakeholders.
• Provide performance information and analytics to support service improvements.

Job description

We are looking for a Clinical Lead that is committed, innovative, and has the vision and leadership skills to lead our Aintree CORE24 service.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team working to ensure that Aintree university hospital is supported in the effective assessment and treatment of service users with mental health issues. This will include providing responsive, emergency assessments within the A&E Department as well as mental health liaison to the wards.

We are looking for an individual who is passionate about urgent mental health care, with a desire to continually improve what we do.

Main duties of the job

In this position you will play a key role in leadership and continued development of the service, working closely with the leadership team as well as developing relationships with key figures from the acute Trust. The role will include:

• Assist in the development and implementation of integrated care pathways
• Work in a professional and collaborative manner with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Participate and promote positive intra-agency working.
• Support the formulation and implementation of clinical and operational practices and procedures.
• Participate in the recruitment, selection and induction of new staff
• Assist in the management and coordination of all services delivered to the service user
• Ensure effective processes of communication are established, maintained and regularly evaluated within designated team
• Provide performance information, analysing to ensure patients are receiving timely access to services

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 services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.