Mental Health Clinical Lead

Oxleas; Castletown; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Mental Health Clinical Lead on a fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave. The role coordinates a multi-disciplinary team delivering mental health, physical health, pharmacy and substance misuse care within a prison setting, with strong leadership for service development and governance.

Applicants must have recognised professional registration (RMN/Social Worker/Psychologist) and post-qualification mental health training.

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification with registration (RMN, SW, Psychologist) and annual practice registration.
• Post-qualification training in mental health, neurodevelopmental disorders, addiction or risk assessment.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and lead team functioning with focus on planning, delivery and evaluation of quality mental health care for patients.
• Manage performance monitoring and engagement with commissioners and service evaluators as required.
• Line management and supervision of staff with regular supervision, support meetings and personal development.
• Ensure professional supervision arrangements are in place.
• Directly manage delegated budgets and a small patient caseload.
• Ensure evidence-based interventions guided by national and local standards.
• Coordinate recruitment and staff decisions within the team.
• Respond to serious untoward incidents and support investigations.
• Ensure complaints are investigated within time limits and that staff have access to training.

Education

Relevant professional qualification (RMN, Social Worker, Psychologist) with registration

Post-qualification training in mental health, neurodevelopmental disorders, addiction or risk assessment

Job description

Are you ready tounlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a registered healthcare professional wanting to flourish as a clinical leader to undertake a fixed-term opportunity as our Mental Health Clinical Lead to cover maternity leave.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:

• To be responsible for the planning, delivery and evaluation of quality mental health care for patients
• Performance monitoring and management including engaging with commissioners and service evaluators as required
• Line management and supervision of staff, including ensuring staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development
• To ensure appropriate professional supervision arrangement are in place
• To be responsible for and directly manage delegated budget
• To actively manage a small caseload of patient
• To ensure that the team provides effective and evidence based interventions which are guided by national, local and professional standards
• Ensure that the team functions in line with the agreed operational polic
• Co-ordinate recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decision
• Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:

• To be responsible for the planning, delivery and evaluation of quality mental health care for patients.
• Performance monitoring and management including engaging with commissioners and service evaluators as required.
• Line management and supervision of staff, including ensuring staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development.
• To ensure appropriate professional supervision arrangement are in place.
• To be responsible for and directly manage delegated budgets
• To actively manage a small caseload of patients
• To ensure that the team provides effective and evidence based interventions which are guided by national, local and professional standards.
• Ensure that the team functions in line with the agreed operational policy
• Co-ordinate recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decisions
• Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation
• Ensure complaints are investigated fully, within the time limits ensuring a proactive approach is standard and in accordance with trust policies
• To ensure staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development and have access to the necessary professional training.
• Work with other Offender Healthcare teams across the Trust as required.
• To ensure robust service to carers, including assessment and support
• Ensure that job plans are developed, are reflective of service needs and are regularly reviewed and adjusted to meet the demands of the service.

MPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.

You will need to provide:

• Proof of right to work documentation
• Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
• Proof of address documentation
• Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.

Address History:

5 years address history will be needed.

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website ( http://www.fco.gov.uk/en ).

Person specification

Qualifications

• Relevant professional qualification (RMN, Social Worker, Psychologist), educated to degree, masters level or have other relevant experience
• Post-qualification training relating to mental health, neurodevelopmental disorders, addiction or risk assessment.

Experience

• Either community mental health experience or offender healthcare experience
• Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice in variable settings
• Experience of managing staff and liaising with other agencies

Skills

• Knowledge of the key drivers behind community mental health care
• Ability to provide and receive complex and emotive information with staff, service users, carers and other stakeholders.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

If you require any adjustments to participate fully in the interview process, please let us know by adding the relevant details when scheduling your preferred interview date and time. Please feel free to contact the appointing manager to discuss your needs.

We encourage applicants to contact the hiring manager before their interview, if they have any questions about the role or the process. This is a great way to get clarity and prepare effectively for the interview.

If you have declared you are part of the armed forces community, you may be asked to provide evidence during the recruitment process. If you misrepresent this information, your offer may be withdrawn. For Armed Forces specific support, see our webpage: https://oxleas.nhs.uk/armed-forces-community/

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

If you choose to use AI or other tools to assist in writing your application, it's essential to personalise this information, particularly your supporting information section. While AI can help streamline the writing process, these tools cannot fully grasp the context or requirements of the job you’re applying for. There is also a risk that it can generate false or misleading information. AI-generated job applications can often be generic, impersonal and may not accurately reflect your qualifications, knowledge, skills, and experiences. It is crucial that you personalise your supporting statement by articulating these in your unique voice. Relying solely on AI to write your application or supporting information section is not advocated by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and could negatively impact your chances of success in the application process.

We monitor applications for any behaviour that could create an unfair advantage, and we check all references carefully. You are likely to be tested on your experience at interview, so be honest and make sure all the information in your application is correct.Please note that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is prohibited during the interview process.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.