Clinical Lead - Specialist Community Learning Disabilities Service.

Sheffield Health and Social Care; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Clinical Lead for its new Specialist Community Learning Disabilities Service. This pivotal role involves leading a multi-disciplinary team to enhance the quality of care for adults with learning disabilities. You will be instrumental in developing and implementing clinical strategies that prioritize person-centered care and address health inequalities. With a focus on collaboration and communication, you will drive improvements in service delivery while ensuring compliance with legislative standards. Join a forward-thinking organization that values the well-being of both its service users and employees, and make a significant impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Active senior clinical practice with robust governance arrangements.
• Extensive experience in Learning Disabilities and senior leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical quality and performance across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and high standards of care.

Skills

Clinical Governance

Leadership

Multi-disciplinary Team Collaboration

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Education

Degree in Nursing, Psychology, or Allied Health

Management and Leadership Training

Postgraduate Degree in Learning Disability or Mental Health

Job description

Clinical Lead - Specialist Community Learning Disabilities Service

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Job Overview

Are you an outstanding Clinical Lead looking for new challenges in your career? We are looking for a Multi-Professional Clinical Lead to join our new Specialist Community Learning Disability Service. This is an exciting opportunity to join the team as we introduce a new clinical model, offering standard and enhanced pathways provided in community settings, close to people's homes. Your expertise will be the driving force for change to ensure high-quality care, delivery of health and well-being outcomes for adults with learning disabilities and their families.

The Clinical Lead will be a visible member of the SCLDS Leadership Team, proactively supporting the multi-disciplinary SCLDS to achieve high standards of clinical care delivery across multiple professional boundaries. You will lead and present complex, sensitive, and challenging clinical and professional communication processes that may impact on service users, carers, staff, the team, the organisation, partner agencies, and members of the public, where there are barriers to understanding.

Main Duties of the Job

The Clinical Lead post is a pivotal position to drive forward the ambitions of the Learning Disabilities transformation programme, developing and delivering on good quality, multi-disciplinary care. Responsibilities include timely access to services, positive experience and outcomes, the delivery of equitable person-centred care, and actively working to reduce health inequalities for those we support.

You will be a visible member of the SCLDS Leadership Team, proactively supporting the multi-disciplinary SCLDS to achieve high standards of clinical care delivery across multiple professional boundaries. You will be responsible for Multi-professional Quality, Safety, Clinical Risk, Strategy, Transformation and Planning.

The Clinical Lead will work with Clinical Directors, Senior Managers, and Professional Leads to develop and implement the clinical strategic & transformational developments in SCLDS and, with other colleagues, more broadly in SHSC and the wider system.

The Clinical Lead will work closely with the Senior Responsible Officer leading improvement work across South Yorkshire on Stopping over-medication of People with Learning Disability (STOMP) and The Learning Disability Mortality Review (LeDeR).

About Us

At SHSC, we prioritise the well-being and safety of both our service users and employees. It is our policy and a condition of employment that all employees must join the DBS Update Service. This service carries an annual fee, which employees are responsible for paying up front. However, employees may claim this cost back through the Trust's Employee Expenses Reimbursement Policy. For those requiring a Basic DBS check, it is necessary to register for a DBS Online Account.

Job Responsibilities

The Clinical Lead Will:

• Share senior leadership and clinical management responsibly for all aspects of clinical quality, performance, standards, regulation, and delivery with the General Manager and Lead Nurse.
• Be a visible advocate who leads the strategic clinical development of the SCLDS across all the professional teams in SCLDS which best serve those who access and are supported by the SCLDS.
• Ensure SCLDS staff behaviours and attitudes reflect Trust vision and values and create a culture where these values can thrive.
• Share responsibility for achieving high standards of care; clinical governance; high operational performance; sound financial management; and improving productivity.
• Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, notably the Mental Health Act, Human Rights Act, Mental Health Capacity Act, Health and Social Care Act, and Data Protection Act within SCLDS.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Active senior clinical practice.
• Competent in implementation of robust clinical governance arrangements that demonstrate "Floor to Board" assurance.
• Thorough understanding of the relationship between quality and efficiency, including Cost Improvements, and Quality and Equality Impact Assessments.
• Ability to work with multiple professionals in pragmatically solving problems.
• To lead and present complex, sensitive, and challenging clinical and professional communication processes that may impact on service users, carers, staff, the team, the organisation, partner agencies, and members of the public, where there are barriers to understanding.

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Degree level (or equivalent) professional qualification, e.g., Nursing, Psychology, Psychological Therapy, Allied Health Professional, and Social Worker.
• Registered with a relevant professional regulatory body, with a Licence to Practice or equivalent as appropriate.
• Management and leadership training or relevant qualification.

Desirable

• Postgraduate Degree level (or equivalent) professional qualification in the field of Learning Disability or Mental Health.

Experience

Essential

• Extensive post qualification experience of working within Learning Disabilities.
• Experience of senior clinical leadership, working within and between teams and organisations.
• Experience of developing and delivering person-centred care within an evidence-based framework.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer Details

Employer name: Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Firshill Rise, 32 Firshill Rise, Sheffield, S4 7BW
Employer's website: https://www.shsc.nhs.uk/working-us