Clinical Lead / Manager | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

This role is to support the Primary Care Mental health team across Warrington & Halton. As one of the team managers, your role will bring together the interface working between Mersey Care and Primary Care.

This is a crucial leadership role which involves working with GP practices and local Primary Care networks to support the delivery of high quality service offered by Mersey Care staff.

To be successful you will need to be able to develop and maintain strong and supportive relationships with our primary care stakeholders and also within our own merseycare services to support the transformation work within the community mental health division.

You would be joining an established and experienced team, whose roles are evolving, you will provide clinical leadership which is compassionate and supportive as well as line management support to the nursing team.

Applicants should be well organised, with strong communication skills.

You will provide management to a primary care mental health team who hold clinics within Primary care networks, developing and delivering strong communications to support and maintain our relationships with our key stakeholders.

You will ensure the team are managed and supported effectively and compassionately and in line with trust policies.

You will support the wider transformation within the trust.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

CLINICAL/MANAGERIAL:

To provide clinical advice, expertise and leadership to all staff.

To support staff in assessment and developing plans to meet patient needs and to ensure that they are appropriate and of a high standard.

Liaise with family members, carers and significant others with regards to the assessment and treatment of service users.

To be the first point of contact for service users and carers that have concerns regarding their care and make every effort to resolve their concerns sensitively and promptly.

To direct and supervise all staff in order to ensure delivery of a high standard of care to service users.

To ensure that team resources are managed appropriately to maximise care and efficient work patterns. This will include tasks such as management of attendance, annual leave and the use of extra resources.

To use skills gained through qualification and experience to communicate with members of your team in the implementation of change and in the interest of good, cohesive team working.

Support staff as we embed the Community Transformation national agenda within the division.

To liaise with other professionals offering services within the service to ensure good communication and high standards of service user care.

Liaise with other professionals with a multi-disciplinary approach to ensure a high quality of service delivery.

To ensure that all relevant information with regards to a service users care and treatment is documented accurately and legibly into the health care record. Supervise and monitor the entries made by team members through performance management and audit.

Provide reports and statistical returns to a variety of Trust departments as requested.

To co-ordinate the provision of teaching sessions in order to pass on knowledge and skills.

To assist in the implementation of change or new systems within the area.

Ensure that all incidents are documented as per trust policy and that any follow-up action is taken.

PROFESSIONAL:

To be responsible for maintaining your own professional registration

To develop effective working relationships with other professionals outside of the Trust in order to enhance the delivery of care to service users

To participate as a supervisor and supervisee in the services performance management framework. Work towards and help others work towards goals and objectives as agreed in personal development plans.

Take responsibility for maintaining and developing your knowledge and skills within your area of work.

To attend, as appropriate courses and conferences and to feedback and share knowledge gained from attendance.

To be professionally accountable for your actions as a registered nurse.

To act, at all times, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures, ensuring that all team members are adhering to policy and procedure.

To undertake mandatory training as stipulated by the Trust and ensure that all actions are in line with training. To monitor that all team members take up mandatory training annually.

To keep up to date with developments in clinical practice and make recommendations for change as appropriate.

To co-ordinate projects to look at specific clinical practices and ensure findings are implemented within the team.

To take an active role in the reporting of adverse incidents as per trust policy. Ensure that team members follow the policy and appropriately report all incidents.

To organise the local induction of new staff.