Clinical Lead - Home Based Treatment Team | South NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

An exciting and challenging opportunity for a forward thinking, highly motivated, innovative, dedicated and experienced registered Mental Health Practitioner to provide clinical leadership to Blackpool Fylde and Wyre HBTT. You will be responsible for providing leadership and ensuring that the care provided is safe, effective and supports service users and carers.

You will be able to reflect LSCFT values of being kind, respectful, working as part of a team and always learning. You should have at least 2 years' experience of working as a Band 6 and demonstrate evidence of learning teams & individuals through change.

The role will include working across the 7 day week with the team being operational 365 days per year. Experience of working within the community Urgent Care pathway is desirable. You should also be able to demonstrate a commitment to supporting engagement with service users and carers to support service development.

• Provide clinical leadership and support to the Team Manager to ensure high quality care across the 24hr/7 day cycle of care.
• Undertake expert assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
• Supervise and teach professionals from the multi-disciplinary teams, both qualified and non-qualified staff.
• Work in partnership with service users, carers and other agencies to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.
• Provide expert clinical knowledge, expertise and interventions, advice, support and supervision in the Home Based Treatment Team (HBTT) to colleagues, service users and carers.
• Work with the Team Manager to ensure that the budget is used effectively and identify/review any cost improvements to deliver a high quality service.
• Demonstrate effective, evidence-based care management, risk assessment and leadership skills. Adapt to a rapidly developing service to meet the needs of service users and carers.

• Registered Mental Health Practitioner with at least 2 years' experience at Band 6 level.
• Experience of learning teams and individuals through change.
• Experience of working in the community and Urgent Care pathways is desirable.
• Ability to engage with service users and carers to support service development and to promote a positive culture of patient engagement.
• Commitment to enhancing the service user and carer experience and to ongoing staff development.
• Flexible and capable of supporting a 7-day service; able to reflect across the 24/7 cycle.

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation. We especially encourage applications from under-represented groups.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area.

LSCFT supports flexible working; we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time. The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

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If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please review the attached job description and person specification.

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