Mental Health Clinical Transformation & Improvement Lead

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust

About

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust provides a broad range of community and inpatient mental health services, community services (including therapies), learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addictions services to people living in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire, a large geographical area which is home to approximately 600,000 people.

The Trust also provides specialist services for children, including physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and support for children and young people and their families who are experiencing emotional or mental health difficulties.

Our specialist services, such as forensic support and offender health, support patients from the wider Yorkshire and Humber area and from further afield.

The Trust also runs Whitby Hospital, a community hospital providing inpatient, outpatient and community services to Whitby and the surrounding area, and eight GP practices - two in Hull and six in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

We employ approximately 3050 staff across more than 70 sites at locations throughout Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire and Whitby. As a teaching Trust, we work closely with our major academic partners, Hull York Medical School and Hull University, nurturing a workforce of tomorrow's doctors, nurses and other health professionals.

Key details

Location: Willerby Hill, Beverley Road, Willerby, HU10 6FE

Contract type: 12 months (Fixed term)

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 pa

Grade: 8b

Specialty: Clinical Transformation Lead

Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019

Job Overview

An exciting new vacancy for a Mental Health Clinical Transformation & Improvement Lead has arisen with the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will be responsible as the Mental Health Development and Improvement Lead across the Division, by supporting the Divisional Service Improvement plans, including short term and long term actions and national targets and local KPI.

They will also ensure the systematic provision of a high-quality clinical service to clients by providing strong, effective professional direction, ensuring the delivery of evidence-based interventions and practice as well as provide consultation and support to staff across the Trust and from partner organisations.

They will continue to demonstrate advanced skills in practice and co-ordinate/lead the provision of support/advice regarding service development which may impact beyond own area of work and implementation of interventions, and the delivery of the highest quality of care in collaboration with service users, carers, staff, managers, and other agencies across a number of teams/geographical areas.

They will utilise research skills by contributing to the identification, initiation and co-ordination of audit and research within the relative service area and across the wider organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading on the transformation of services, service improvement plans and future service development within and beyond own area of practice.
• Responsible for the implementation of delivery of high-quality clinical services to clients within the Mental Health Division.
• Provide clinical oversight in relation to service transformation across the Mental Health Division.
• Provide advanced skills in practice and co-ordinate/lead and provide support/advice regarding service development which may impact beyond own area of work, and the delivery of the highest quality of care in collaboration with service users, carers, staff, managers, and other agencies across a number of teams/geographical areas.
• To work in partnership with operational managers, professional leads/colleagues and service users to ensure delivery of contemporary community-based interventions to support recovery.
• Maintain compliance with, and development of, clinical policies, procedures and guidelines to support the delivery of safe and effective care and interventions.
• Support the delivery of good governance and local audit within the service.
• To work autonomously within professional guidelines and contribute to the systematic governance of practice within the Division.

Working for our organisation

We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For further information for this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.

This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.

Where operationally feasible the Trust supports agile working, there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.

If required for the post the ability to commute within the Trust's geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.

We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.

IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.

If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.

If you require sponsorship

On 1 July 2024, NHS England strengthened its commitment to supporting employees already working for the NHS who wish to embark upon an apprenticeship to aid career development.

To ensure these staff do not experience a detriment to their basic pay, the salary for the duration of the apprenticeship will be consistent with their current pay or the rate paid to other apprentices, whichever is higher (subject to eligibility criteria).

This change supports existing NHS employees to undertake a formal apprenticeship programme which, upon completion, would qualify them for a role where the evaluated pay band is the same or higher than the band of their current post.

Applicant Requirements

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications And Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience Professional clinical knowledge acquired through degree, supplemented by specialist training to masters or equivalent level, management qualification or equivalent experience.
• Current Professional registration.
• Full understanding of relevant policy, legislation, drivers and their application to clinical and service area, e.g. Mental Capacity Act, Social Inclusion.
• Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
• Knowledge of and experience in the use of a wide range of psychometric and other objective assessment tools, such as is used in neuro-assessment, as applied in mental health work.
• Skills in co-ordinating programmes of care, and providing consultation and specialist advice to other professional and non-professional groups.
• Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, and application of this to research and development activity within the specialist service area.
• Basic IT skills.
• To maintain, as part of continual professional development, up to date clinical advanced/specialist knowledge/skills in this clinical field, using information to effect change in practice and ensuring the effective dissemination of new knowledge.
• Work closely with and provide advanced/specialist advice and consultation to all other professionals within the specialty.
• To take a senior clinical role in partnership with the clinical team in managing complex cases.
• To ensure up to date knowledge of relevant national and local policies/drivers to enable the post holder to review service need contribute to service/workforce re-design and its implementation, ensuring a needs led service based on best practice provided.
• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of clinical interventions, procedures and practices relevant to the clinical area.

Desirable criteria

• Leadership or management qualification. Experience of providing consultation to other agencies e.g. health visitors, school nurses.
• Advanced/expert understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified clinical area.
• Evidence of policy implementation and development.
• Broadly based knowledge of the theory and practice of advanced psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable experience of working as a practitioner clinician, to include a significant period of working at a senior level in the specific specialist field where the post is held.
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD) relevant to the clinical area.
• Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings.
• Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for service users care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care co-ordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan.
• Experience of teaching, training and/or professional and clinical supervision.
• Evidence of advanced practice skills and able to demonstrate the impact of this on practice change/development.
• Evidence of promoting/supporting active service user/carer involvement/participation.
• Professional networking locally and regionally.
• Be able to effectively Chair meetings.

Desirable criteria

• A breadth of clinical practice including clinically specialising in the field where the post is held.
• Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level.
• Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships.
• Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing.
• Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts.

Skills and Competencies

Essential criteria

• Effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising.
• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills.
• Good time management skills.
• Work within the culture of improving working lives and working time directive.
• Ability to lead and motivate staff to embrace change.
• Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others.
• Ability to demonstrate ethical values and attitudes within a culture of equality and diversity.
• Evidence of resiliency when working with challenging client groups.
• Ability to commute between the various sites.
• Demonstrate mandatory training and attendance for the management of violence and aggression.

Desirable criteria

• Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally.
• Be able to demonstrate leadership/management skills at an advanced level.

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Kayleigh Brown

Job title: Mental Health Division Clinical Lead

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: 07557979959