Clinical Lead - Forensic Transitions Team

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust in Shropshire invites applications for a Registered Mental Health Nurse / Social Worker / AHP to join the Forensic Community Transitions Pathway on a temporary contract to 31/03/2028. This full-time role spans 37.5 hours per week and supports individuals transitioning from secure services into community care.

The post is co-located with other mental health teams and focuses on rehabilitation, re-integration, and leadership development within MPFT's

Qualifications

• Registration with the appropriate professional body (NMC for nurses, HCPC for AHP/social worker).
• Experience in forensic or transition/community mental health settings preferred.
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team and manage priorities.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership for the Forensic Transitions Team.
• Ensure performance against trust standards including KPIs and financial targets.
• Provide appropriate advice to team staff, multi-disciplinary and Management Groups.
• Monitor and evaluate practice based on current trends and initiate changes.
• Ensure compliance with NMC Codes and other professional bodies.
• Promote integration between Community and inpatient services.
• Encourage multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working.
• Monitor and manage team performance to meet organisational targets.

Skills

Clinical leadership

MDT working

NMC Code awareness

Community mental health care

Job description

The Forensic Community Transitions Pathway is a newly developed pilot service to support people in the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin area that have left secure forensic services and are transitioning from MPFTs Forensic Intensive Recovery Support Team (FIRST) into a community mental health service. The team will provide specialist assessment, formulation and treatment to support them during this transition to gain/regain their skills and confidence to live successfully in the community.

The service is currently looking for a Registered Mental Health Nurse / Social worker / AHP to join the service on a temporary contract until 31/03/2028, full-time post (37.5 hours per week).

This role and service will need to develop strong working relationships with other services both internally and externally and is co-located with other mental health teams as the goals of the service are to support individuals with rehabilitation and re-integration into the community.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop leadership and service development skills and also to understand to wider health and social care system in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.

This post is being advertised as a temporary contract until 31/03/2028. However, secondment opportunities would be considered for internal MPFT employees upon prior agreement of your current line manager.

Main duties of the job

• Day to day responsibility for clinical leadership and the delivery of services delivered by the Forensic Transitions Team
• Responsibility for ensuring performance within designated trust standards including, Key Performance Indicators and financial management targets.
• To provide appropriate advice to team staff, multi-disciplinary and Management Groups.
• To monitor and evaluate practice based on contemporary and current trends and initiate changes in the light of these findings.
• To ensure that all statutory and professional responsibilities of the NMC Codes of Conduct are met alongside other professional related bodies
• To promote, encourage and develop integration between Community and inpatient services.
• Encourage and facilitate multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working
• Monitor and manage theperformance of the team and individual team members, to ensure achievements of Trust organisational targets/objectives