Clinical Team Lead
Devon Partnership Nhs Trust
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Job summary
Devon Partnership NHS Trust's TALKWORKS service invites applications for a Clinical Team Lead in the North Devon, Taw locality. This 37.5 hour role offers leadership over the TALKWORKS team, supervision structures and staff wellbeing, with a focus on clinical excellence and adherence to national guidelines.
The successful candidate will lead service delivery, develop partnerships with primary care and external agencies, and maintain governance, training and data systems to support NICE-compliant
Qualifications
- Specialist training in NHS Talking Therapies compliant therapy/interventions up to masters or equivalent.
- Experienced in risk assessment within scope of practice and CPD.
- UK registration and accreditation for NHS TT or PWP as required.
Responsibilities
- Provide clinical leadership and management for the TALKWORKS team in the Taw locality.
- Develop and implement operational policies to ensure safe, high-quality service delivery.
- Maintain strong working relationships with NHS partners, primary care and external agencies.
- Maintain clinical governance, supervision training, and staff wellbeing.
- Ensure NICE-compliant therapies are delivered and data systems (IAPTus) are used for reporting.
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Job description
Are you looking for a career in one of the UKs most respected mental health and learning disability Trusts, with commitment to local services in Devon? Would you like to do a job that makes a difference every day?
TALKWORKS, Devons NHS Talking Therapies Service, is a large, highperforming service with a strong commitment to evidencebased practice and we have an exciting opportunity to join our team.
We are recruiting a Clinical Team Lead for the North Devon, Taw locality. This is a role for 37.5 hours, with working days to be agreed. We welcome applications from motivated, dynamic professionals with strong therapeutic knowledge and supervisory experience, who can provide effective leadership and empower clinicians within the team.
Main duties include:
- Provide leadership and management for the TAW TALKWORKS team, including oversight of professional development, supervision structures and staff wellbeing, to support a culture of continuous growth and clinical excellence.
- Contributing to the wider TALKWORKS leadership team in developing and implementing operational policies to ensure safe, highquality service delivery in line with national guidelines.
- Building and maintaining effective working relationships within TALKWORKS, the wider NHS Trust and external partner agencies.
- Maintaining a small clinical caseload to support ongoing professional development and meet accreditation requirements.
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
- Leading and managing the local implementation of the TALKWORKS team in line with the national guidance and local requirements.
- Performing an ambassadorial function for the TALKWORKS among DPT, primary care, partner agencies and others to support the implementation of the programme.
- Establishing, developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with local NHS TT training providers, local commissioners and partner agencies.
- Ensuring that recruitment; top up training and supervision training for qualified staff; and the service component of training for trainee staff follows national guidelines
- Ensuring that clinical governance arrangements are in place to cover all of the clinical activity, procedures are in place for operation of the service, and protocols and arrangements are in place so that people can be stepped up and down to and from the service as required.
- Ensuring that the service meets all local, Regional and national targets, and ensuring the proper use by the team of the patient record and data management system (IAPTus) to support this.
- Providing NICE-compliant therapies as a key component of the service
- Ensuring the maintenance of standards of practice according DPT policies, and any regulating, professional and accrediting bodies (eg HPC, BPS, UKCP, BABCP)
- Ensure that client confidentiality is protected at all times.
- Be aware of, and keep up to date with clinical advances in the sphere of NHS TT.
- Managing the local team budget, ensuring appropriate vacancy and spending management.
Clients, family and carers: To communicate in a highly skilled and sensitive manner with clients who may have specific difficulties in understand and/or communicating and who may be hostile, antagonistic or emotionally distressed. Educate and involve family members and others in treatment as necessary, conveying clinical formulations with sensitivity in easily understood language.
Multidisciplinary team colleagues: To work closely with, and provide clinical leadership to colleagues in the TALKWORKS service
Health & social care staff: To communicate with a wide range of health & social care staff in hospital and in community settings in a highly skilled and sensitive manner, complex and sensitive information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients under the services care. To provide support & guidance in the application of psychological principles and techniques, and to foster reflective practice.
Senior managers & professional staff: To maintain and build good working relationships with senior professional staff and managers and to foster a positive approach to NHS TT to enable effective negotiation.
Responsible for the clinical delivery and leadership of the TALKWORKS in a local area of DPT
Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients in line with your clinical background
To participate in, and support Trust-wide TALKWORKS policy and service developments, and responsible for clinical policy development and implementation within a local area, having an impact within DPT, primary care and partner agencies.
To ensure all clinical care and treatment is carried out under appropriate supervision and leadership.
The TALKWORKS: To plan and coordinate the clinical development of the TALKWORKS in a local area of DPT, within overall service plans, working with network leaders, primary care and partner agencies. To prioritise own workload, balancing the demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals, and service research and development activities.
The multidisciplinary service: Provide an advisory service on planning matters related to the practice and delivery of NHS TT Therapies to individuals/groups/committees across the Mental Health Trust, wider health system, and other voluntary agencies, as required.
- Responsible for the clinical delivery and leadership of the TALKWORKS in a local area of DPT
- Accept referrals via agreed protocols within the service
- Assess clients for suitability for NHS TT interventions.
- Make decisions on suitability of new referrals, adhering to the service referral protocols, and refer unsuitable clients on to the relevant service or back to the referral agent as necessary.
- Formulate, implement and evaluate therapy programmes for clients.
- Adhere to an agreed activity contract relating to the number of client contacts offered, and clinical sessions carried out per week in order to minimise waiting times and ensure treatment delivery remains accessible and convenient.
- Attend multi-disciplinary meetings relating to referrals or clients in treatment, where appropriate.
- Work closely with other members of the team ensuring appropriate step-up and step-down arrangements are in place to maintain a stepped care approach.
- Assess and integrate issues surrounding work and employment into the overall therapy process
The post holder is responsible for their own professional actions, acting within Trust policies and procedures and Professional Practice Guidelines, working within clearly defined occupational procedures.
Policy & service: To participate in, and support Trust-wide TALKWORKS policy and service developments, and responsible for clinical policy development and implementation within a local area, having an impact within DPT, primary care and partner agencies.
R & D: Establish and maintain a local internal clinical audit programme, develop a research element for the service and organise personal or service-led R & D activities as required.
Responsible for the budget and resources for the individual TALKWORKS team under the direction of the Head of Service or Operational and Professional Lead.
Management: Responsible for leading and managing aTALKWORKS team as a key component of integrated mental health and wellbeing services.
Leadership & supervision: To lead and ensure the supervision of all TALKWORKS staff in the team.
To lead the local implementation of the commissioned NHS TT information system (IAPTus), and to coordinate the training in its use for all TALKWORKS staff. To lead staff in integrating the use of the information system into their therapy practice and so complete all the information requirements as agreed by local protocols.
To maintain accurate records and complete all requirements relating to data collection and reporting within the service.
To be responsible for using an email account to generate, monitor, and respond to the e‑mail traffic by which the Trust conducts much of its internal communication.
R & D: To undertake service‑relevant research and development activity agreed within the service, and to organise personal or service led R & D activities as required.
To implement NICE approved therapy provision within teams as required
Ability to work independently within defined occupational procedures and use initiative within a service
To participate in, and support Trust‑wide TALKWORKS policy and service developments, and responsible for clinical policy development and implementation within a local area, having an impact within DPT, primary care and partner agencies.
To ensure all clinical care and treatment is carried out under appropriate supervision and leadership.
To plan and coordinate the clinical development of the TALKWORKS team in a local area of DPT, within overall service plans, working with network leaders, primary care and partner agencies. To prioritise own workload, balancing the demands of patient care, support and guidance of carers and professionals, and service research and development activities.
To ensure all clinical care and treatment is carried out under appropriate supervision and leadership.
To continuously update the skills and techniques relevant to the clinical work.
This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be amended in the light of changing service needs. This job description is to be reviewed in conjunction with the post holder on an annual basis.
- Specialist training in NHS Talking Therapies compliant therapy/interventions (can include a combination of: professional diploma, advanced diploma, BABCP/BACP registration, other further substantial training, accredited CBT/other NHS TT compliant supervision, specialist courses in NHS TT compliant techniques) to masters or equivalent level (for example, Hi-CBT, Counselling with completed supervision and NHS TT modality training, or a very experienced and senior PWP practitioner with additional supervision and CPD qualifications).
- Has received training (either formal of through experience) and carried out risk assessments within scope of practice
- Good record of Continuing Professional Development and willingness to continue this
- Appropriate NHS Talking Therapies accreditation or PWP registration in line with the requirements of the NHS TT manual
- Trained in provision of supervision for NHS Talking Therapies
- Communication Skills
- Proven ability to communicate clearly in difficult and complex situations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Able to develop good therapeutic relationships with clients
- The ability and skills to act as an advocate for a new service, to engage and foster good professional relationships with all health professionals in promoting the good integration of this service with the wider health care system
- Analytical & Judgement Skills
- Able to lead a service and make decisions and judgments about the best way forward in a complex work environment where the evidence base is evolving.
- Planning & Organising Skills
- Skills to plan the work and the development of a team, to lead and work within a team, and to foster good working relationships
- IT Skills
- A willingness to travel to locations throughout the organisation
- An understanding of anxiety and depression and how it may present to NHS Talking Therapies Services.
- Knowledge of the issues surrounding work and the impact it can have on mental health
- An understanding for the need to use evidence based psychological therapies and how it relates to this post
- Expertise and knowledge across the spectrum of an NHS TT service
- In-depth experience of working in mental health services where multi disciplinary working was embraced as part of service delivery
- Experience of delivering service re-designExperience of developing and implementing service policies and procedures
- Involvement in research programmes
- Experience of leading a team
- Experience of day to day management of a team
- Experience of working in Primary Care Services
- Worked in a service where agreed targets in place demonstrating clinical outcomes
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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