Clinical Team Leader, Perinatal Mental Health Service

The Essex Perinatal Mental Health Service is a growing team of skilled and compassionate professionals who have successfully established a new specialist service in the community across the county over the last three years and we are again expanding further to meet the needs of more women across Essex. This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Perinatal Clinical lead to join our dedicated and growing leadership team with expertise in this field.
The service operates from five Hubs across Essex with a north facing and south facing team concept, providing a stepped-care model of specialist assessment and intervention for women at risk of moderate or serious mental illness or complex disorders within the county of Essex.
The successful candidate will be the clinical lead of the Southeast Essex (Rochford) hub of Essex area, taking management and clinical responsibility for the community MDT and working clinical leadership duties within that hub being part of the service development and expansion for those areas.
The successful candidate will also be required to contribute to the ongoing service development to improve the quality of delivery of care, clinical practice and partnership working with key services. Fostering a good multi-disciplinary team framework together with our Perinatal Practitioners, Perinatal Psychologists, Perinatal Consultant Psychiatrists, Nursery Nurses, Parenting Counsellor and other new roles.

Working for our organisation
We significantly invest in our workforce to foster expertise in our team providing specialist training packages and development opportunities in line with emerging evidence and standards for parental mental illness., Clinical/Professional/Specific Managerial Responsibilities

1. Manage and lead the multi-professional team in the delivery of safe and effective evidence-based interventions.

1. Will be required, when needed to hold a small caseload.

3. To deliver a service within the agreed financial envelope ensuring maximum value in term of clinical and cost effectiveness
4. Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team
1. Work in conjunction with the Service Managers and Directors to ensure that access targets are achieved.
2. Ensure continuity of service delivery by working collaboratively with Line Managers and key professionals.
3. Allocate cases, and monitor practitioners' workload through effective implementation of the workload management tools.

8. Ensure adherence to `Promoting Quality Care: Guidance on Risk Assessment and Management in Mental Health and Learning Disability Services May 2010'.
1. Organise and chair Care Planning and Review meetings for clients who present with significant risks and who have complex needs.
2. Organise and chair weekly MDT meetings jointly with the Lead Team Consultant ensuring required records are maintained.
3. Lead and ensure the implementation of agreed action plans including risk management plans for individuals with high risk/complex needs.
4. Ensure adherence to the relevant legislative requirements.
5. Contribute to effective communication and liaison within the wider MH services and with other services and professionals including statutory and voluntary agencies and community groups.
6. Act as a resource for advice and expertise to staff, users, carers and other agencies such as GPs and other primary care and CCG colleagues.

15. Act as Designated Officer for Adult Protection Investigations for women on the caseload.
1. Ensure adherence to Governance requirements.
2. Ensure compliance with relevant inquiry recommendations.
3. Ensure service information requirements are met through the production of required statistics and data, and completion of daily diary sheets.
4. Report to the relevant Professional Social Work Lead on matters pertaining to the professional agenda and ensure appropriate attendance at the professional Fora.
5. Report to the relevant Professional Nurse Lead on matters pertaining to the professional agenda and ensure appropriate attendance at the professional Fora.
6. Support the Professional Social Work and Mental Health Nurse Lead to promote high standards of professional practice.
7. Supervise professional practice for the discharge of statutory duties under the Mental Health (NI) Order 1986 and other relevant legislation and guidance.
8. Organise and Chair relevant professionals meetings.
9. Ensure staff act in accordance with relevant professional codes of conduct and standards.
10. Manage own workload and in conjunction with the Perinatal Mental Health Team Manager, identify and address own development needs.
11. Undertake projects or tasks outside the normal responsibilities when required.

Generic Managerial Responsibilities both within an operational and strategic context
1. Provide regular supervision and support to all staff that will include monitoring of caseloads and clinical practice. Supervision will also include reviewing standards of record keeping such as appropriate updating of assessments, care plans, risk management plans and carers assessments.
2. Act as a member of the Mental Health Management Team and contribute to the development of policy formulation, planning and resource allocation.
3. Assist in the investigation of complaints and incidents under the direction of the Perinatal Mental Health Team Manager and or Service Manager/Associate Director.
4. Lead multidisciplinary / multiagency practice development and service improvement projects.
5. Ensure that the Service User and Carers are actively involved in the planning and delivery of services in keeping with the Trusts engagement policies and upholding the principles of true co-production.

6. To be responsible for developing and maintaining knowledge of local resources and developing excellent working relationships with relevant statutory, voluntary and community groups and organisations.
7. To provide regular education and training (both formally and informally) on perinatal mental health issues to a wide range of professionals and stakeholders involved in the care and management of women in the perinatal period.
8. To be responsible for monitoring, recording and reporting on clinical work and communicating highly complex clinical information to a variety of recipients (e.g. patient's, families and carers, other professionals) orally and in writing.
9. To develop with the Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist (Lead Clinician) systems and processes to record relevant information at the time of referral, during on-going work, and for evaluation purposes, as consistent with the policies and protocols of the mental health Trust.
10. To work closely with colleagues to promote and develop a collaborative Community Perinatal Mental Health Service for the catchment area.
11. To be actively involved in the audit process, collecting data, mapping of local needs, and the evaluation and monitoring of personal work and the work of the service. This would include quality improvement projects and involvement in research and development.
Finance
1. To manage a delegated budget and financial resources.

Performance management
1. Ensure that regular audits and evaluations are undertaken to determine compliance with required CQC and professional standards.
2. Contribute to the implementation of the Trusts Corporate Plan, Trust Delivery Plan and Performance Management Plan.
3. Support compliance with the DHSSPS Promoting Quality Care and will ensure that the agreed performance and activity targets are met.
4. Ensure arrangements are in place to achieve all of the teams KPI performance targets.

Human Resources
1. Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff.
2. Manage attendance and participate in disciplinary and grievance matters when necessary.
3. Undertake staff performance reviews and appraisals with team members, identifying staff development needs and agreeing opportunities for these needs to be met.
4. To ensure that clinical supervision is given to all health qualified staff in the team and to ensure that staff work to high standards of professional practice.
5. To facilitate and enhance good team working and promote reflective practice.
6. To line manage and /supervise junior staff.
7. Authorise leave and training as delegated by the Team Manager.
8. To deputise for the Team Manager, as required.

ADDITIONAL DUTIES
In addition to the above duties you will also be expected to perform the below key activities in line with your job role;
+ Complete mandatory training in line with Trust policy and procedures
+ To participate in the staff appraisal process and to undertake for any staff you manage
+ To keep yourself updated on all matters relating to Trust policy
+ To provide management supervision where appropriate
+ You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working shifts, where appropriate and operationally required.
Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered 'suitable alternative employment' to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.
Important Professional References
Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.
As a newly appointed employee you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.
Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed.

As a clinical lead within a team, you will bring with you a range of knowledge and experiences and have an established community mental health service knowledge base. These personal attributes will enable you to effectively lead a dynamic and diverse team of practitioners and work positively with the multidisciplinary leadership team to shape the service going forwards. You must also have the ability to network, establish and maintain positive working relationships with other stakeholders across Essex.
Successful candidates will demonstrate knowledge and interest in mental health during the perinatal period together with sound knowledge of child and adult safeguarding practice. Good communication, collaborative partnership working, time management and planning skills are essential. Previous experience of working with this group would be desirable.

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:
+ We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
+ We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.
EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.

Our vision and values
Our Vision
"To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care".
Our Purpose
"We care for people every day. What we do together, matters".
Our Values
+ We Care
+ We Learn
+ We Empower
Our strategic objectives
+ We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
+ We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
+ We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
+ We will help our communities to thrive.
Our services
+ Mental Health Services
+ Community Health Services
+ Learning Disabilities Services
+ Social Care
Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory., The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.
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