Travel Specialist - Middlesbrough, United Kingdom - NHS

Description

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

The Clinical Specialist will have responsibility for providing clinical leadership to colleagues across the local 'place-based' community system in the assessment, treatment, and management of people with complex needs in a designated specialty.

Providing specialist mental health assessment and clinically proven, evidence-based interventions to the specified client group with a range of complex mental health problems.

The Clinical Specialist will offer advice and consultation regarding the management of the specified client group to colleagues from across the local community system and other agencies, as necessary.

The post holder will be expected to support the leadership group in local implementation of the Community Mental Health Transformation Programme and future systems change resulting fromthis work where appropriate.

The successful applicant will be a lead for team members in the designated specialty, leading on professional development and ensuring the delivery of robust evidence based practice.

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

The post holder will provide expert mental health care and support to allservice users referred to the service providing evidence based mental health interventions.

The post holder will formulate plans of care and negotiate the implementation of such plans and the sharing of complex, sensitive, confidential and at times contentious information e.g., child protection issues, safeguarding vulnerable adults etc.

The post holder will maintain high quality record keeping standards inline with the Trusts Record Keeping Guidelines, ensuring thatconfidentiality is maintained at all times.

To contribute to the development, evaluation and monitoring of local policies and procedures through consultation, the deployment of professional skills and research, service evaluation and audit, local governments procedures and membership of working groups.

To be a key member of the senior leadership team and have an identifiedrole in leadership within the team.

NMC, GMC, HCPC, Social Work-England)
And - Trained in providing clinical supervision
For other professions - evidence of training in clinical supervision of other staff and able to demonstrate competence in this area of practice in clinical supervision of other staff and/or students/ trainees
All professions - Postgraduate diploma (or above) in a subject relevant to the area of practice or be willing to work towards and achieve within 2 years
Intermediate Systemic Family Therapy/Post Grad diploma in CBT/British Isles Dialectical Behaviour Therapy /NMP e.g. dysphagia, posture, autism assessment, rebound, social prescribing, sensory processing, Approved Mental Health Professional, Practice Educator (level 3 Independent Prescriber) * Note any other advanced qualification/masters credits not listed here as an example, must be clearly evidenced and listed as "advanced qualification or masters credits" - within the individuals application form
And have Equivalent clinical experience to that of a Post Grad Diploma/master's level such as working as a band 6 (or above) in relevant clinical area with significant experience (see below under experience), together with evidence of relevant CPD
Experience of assessing and managing risk (harm to self, others and safeguarding)
Involvement in quality improvement activities.
Extensive knowledge of current issues relating to health needs of patients in the field of practice, regionally and nationally
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
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