Clinical Lead - Camden, United Kingdom - One Housing

One Housing

Verified Company

Camden, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Clinical lead
We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.
Our Homelessness and Prevention team is friendly and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high
- quality support we provide.

We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for-profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to people's lives, each and every day.

Join our Homelessness and Prevention team as a Clinical Lead
Housing sits at the heart of our organisation. We believe that everyone deserves a safe, secure, affordable home. Providing care and support to those who need it is an important part of what we do. We work with people experiencing homelessness and who oftenhave other support needs.

Our services include hostels, young peoples' accommodation services and support delivered in the community; where we provide tailored support that prepares our customers to achieve independence and re-integrate within the community.

We're an organisation with strong values.

We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve.

These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

The role

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Clinical Lead at our Arlington service based in Camden.

Arlington is the largest mixed use homeless hostel in the UK and the flagship support services for One Housing. Alongside its 95 supported homes for former rough sleepers it has 44 low-rent independent studio flats, social enterprises and commercial businessesin a mixed vibrant environment all under one roof, where our customers can be motivated to get on the right track and find a way to independence

Salary:
£32,000 per annum

Hours:40% of theRolling Rota
- Early & Late shifts, 1 weekend a month.

Location:
Camden

Your responsibilities will include:

To provide clinical input for the staff and customers as directed by the service specification and the needs of the service.
To ensure the delivery of a high quality supported service for customers with mental health and complex needs which reflects best practice and adheres to all relevant legislation and performance standards.
To provide in house training to staff in personal areas of expertise i.e. counselling, nursing, social work, drug and alcohol specialist, etc.
Recruit, support and supervise staff, setting and demanding professional standards of working.
Performance management including setting targets, monitoring and taking action to address any performance issues
Ensure that Medication Management and support is delivered within policy and procedure.
Where required to oversee a caseload of customers

What you will need to succeed

A relevant professional qualification in the area of expertise (i.e. Drug and alcohol, counselling, psychology, OT, nursing or social work or any other relevant qualifications) preferably fully registered with relevant accreditation body.
Experience working in community settings therapeutically, including assessments, designing interventions and demonstrating outcomes.
Experience of developing interventions for both staff and customer groups
Working experience relevant to mental health
Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing including the preparation of letters, reports & file notes
Basic level of IT skills
Knowledge and understanding of up to date legislation, government frameworks relevant to mental health