Clinical Lead

An exciting opportunity has opened for a Clinical Lead practitioner to join our Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centre. (MHUAC)

The successful candidate will be enthusiastic about the urgent treatment pathway and the MHUAC and be able to demonstrate excellent clinical leadership in a fast-paced environment.

The Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centre within Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust has been designed using a service delivery model to offer a safe and therapeutic environment for patients experiencing mental health crisis. The aim is to reduce whole system pressures by directing patients away from ED and enabling onward referral and liaison with other co-located Mental Health Services.

The Mental Health Urgent Assessment Centre offers timely, high-quality clinical assessments for those suffering from a mental health crisis. The service aims to reduce A&E attendance for those who have no medical need to attend and provide patients with the right intervention at the right time to help prevent hospital admission and help keep people well in the community.

The Mental Health Assessment Centre is based at the Peter Hodgkinson Centre and consists of a waiting room, three assessment rooms, and an office space. MHUAC is co-located next to the Psychiatric Clinical Decisions Unit and the Section 136 Suite. The staff team works across all three services, which helps to provide continuity of care throughout the pathway.

Main duties of the job

To provide the overall clinical and managerial leadership of the Nursing and clinical team in the MHUAC.

This position is both Clinical and Managerial with a team composition made up of Nursing, Allied Healthcare Professionals, Psychological therapy professionals, Administrative and Medical representation. As clinical lead you will provide the expert knowledge within areas acute care mental health and support the clinical team to develop their roles and the provision of care within Acute mental health.

Work jointly with the Team Coordinator in managing the service including line management of staff, reporting for contract and auditing of service provision.

Be accountable for the leadership and management of the delivery of the clinical care of service users.

Provide leadership and work in partnership with service users, their carers and colleagues in the urgent care setting.

Provide effective line management and clinical supervision jointly with the Team Coordinator of the clinical team in urgent care pathway setting.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.