Clinical Lead MHT+

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Kent & Medway Partnership Trust are delighted to be recruiting to a Clinical Lead position within our Mental Health Together Plus (MHT+) Team in Maidstone. The Trust has been implementing the Community Mental Health Framework and this position will be part of the management team within MHT+, they will work alongside the Mental Health Together Team to provide a high-level service to the population we serve.

We are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic clinician with suitable leadership and experience, who is motivated to join the collective leadership team who support the team.

The successful candidate will support to provide the day to day clinical oversight of the team to ensure that we delivery safe, effective and efficient care to service users. You will work alongside the other clinical leads and operational team managers within the Community Mental Health Framework as well as our 3rd sector partners who form part of the MHT Team.

You will facilitate the transfer of Service Users between Mental Health Together and Mental Health Together Plus and between the different specialist teams within the Trust and to co-ordinate care within a shared caseload and within relevant framework.

Main duties of the job

Overall the role will entail working within the leadership team to ensure that as a service we provide 7 day clinical lead oversight/cover.

• Act as a role model to support/guide the team deliver high quality standards of care, be responsive to service demands and dynamic in supporting the team with complex and challenging situations.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills, work well within the leadership team to prioritise daily clinical demands / needs of service, whilst supporting the clinical team.
• Provide clinical advice and supervision (both individual and group supervision) and contribute to individuals appraisals.
• Provide in house training to team and wider teams/services when needed.
• Support and embed clinical standards within the team.
• Lead/support and contribute to monitoring team's clinical performance via clinical audits and work in conjunction with Team Manager to support actions to improve the quality and performance of the service and outcomes for services users.
• Show excellent organisational, time management and delegation skills to work in an area of changing priorities.
• Be a cohesive member of the Leadership Team, work flexibly and support the Team Manager where needed, offer expertise and experience to develop new staff and support in retention and wellbeing of the team.

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our mission is what we set out to do every day: We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.

Our vision is where we want to be in the future: To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.

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Job responsibilities

For the full details and all aspects of the role and the skill set required please refer to the attached job description.

At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Mental Health Nurse Registered O/T
• MELPS (Mentoring and Enabling in a clinical setting)
• Degree or equivalent experience
• ENB 998

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience and 3 years in Community setting
• Previous experience of working in a community team
• Experience of working with people with a Personality Disorder
• Clinical assessment of physical, psychological and social care

Knowledge

• Recovery Model
• Working knowledge of Mental Health Act 1983, Care Act 2014

Skills

• Problem solving/solution focussed
• Ability to prioritise key tasks and target intervention
• Crisis resolution and management skills

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.

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust