Clinical Team Leader - Aldershot, United Kingdom - Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Aldershot, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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North East Hampshire Community Mental Health Recovery Service

We are searching for an enthusiastic, innovative and motivated Mental Health Nurse or Mental Health Practitioner from Social Work or Occupational Therapists to join us as Clinical Team Leader for North East Hampshire Community Mental Health Recovery Service based at Aldershot Centre for Health.

This is a large CMHRS that covers North East Hampshire and Farnham GPs in Surrey.

This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to work as part of a dynamic Community Mental Health Recovery Team.

This team has won SABP awards for team of the year and partner of the year with patients and carers and was nominated again in 2023.

This is a real opportunity to consolidate on the strengths of the team and develop it further within a strong senior leadership team.

This post is open to Nursing, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers. It is also open to job share

Provide clinical leadership, coaching & mentoring of colleagues to provide a safe service and enable service development

Maintain excellence through clinical practice development & quality improvement

Ensure compliance with best practice directions (NICE) and participation in quality and safety initiatives

Assess, design, implement and evaluate safe, creative, and effective treatment plans working collaboratively with people who use our service.

Ensure that individual care plans are patient centred and aid recovery.

Link in with other services and agencies involved in a patients care to provide smooth interfaces.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire.

We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population.

We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for providing clinical or management supervision to Band 6 staff, and lower grades staff where appropriate.

The post holder will provide specialist mental health advice and education to primary care colleagues.

The post holder will provide a holistic, autonomous nursing care and maintain communication with primary care professionals and other professionals and agencies through regular informal and formal meetings.

These meetings will include a review of patients within the practice/service with mental health problems.

The post holder will facilitate clinical sessions and assess / triage clients/patients according to agreed assessment tools, offering short
- term interventions based on psychological therapies and offer professional advice to client / patients and their carers, other professional, statutory and voluntary agencies. They will facilitate the transfer of patients between primary and secondary care and between the different specialist teams within the Trust

The post holder will lead on the setting, monitoring and maintaining standards of care and will advise the service manager on issues which endanger standards of practice within their specific area of practice.

The post holder will be responsible for their own registration and practice in accordance with their professional standards and will take every reasonable opportunity to sustain their professional competence.

The post holder will be a mentor and adviser for student nurses and will work closely with Clinical Placement Facilitator to ensure that the learning objectives are consistent with the requirements of their educational programmes.

He/she will provide clinical leadership in their specific area of practice, providing advice on issues and to act as a resource person for other professionals within that service.

The post holder will identify and facilitate people updating their professional knowledge and skills.

In the absence of the Service Manager the post holder will be responsible for delegating duties to other members of the team and taking a lead on the day to day running of the team, undertaking management responsibilities as requested.

In conjunction with the Service Manager implementing strategies in both primary care and mental health that promotes an environment of user involvement and recovery.

Act as a role model for colleagues and others in relation to professional an