CYPMHS - Clinical Lead | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen in the St Helens CYPMHS team (child and adolescent mental health services) for an experienced/skilled and passionate clinical lead to support the mental health of children and young people. As the clinical lead, you will be a member of the management and leadership team supporting the team and responsible for leading multi-agency plans to support CYP. You will work closely with the clinical team manager supporting quality of care.

You will deliver therapeutic intervention to meet the needs of complex CYP and complete appropriate risk and safety plans. As a clinical lead, you will be key in developing and supporting local pathways of care, as well as the evaluation of services and training for the wider system. You will also offer consultation this includes working with CSC, Education and third-sector organisations and is a very important aspect of our work. You will provide caseload supervision, and clinical supervision, complete audits, carry a small complex caseload and desirable be skilled in a therapy.

This post is subject to an enhanced with children's and adult's barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

The post holder will be expected to provide specialist interventions, advice, consultancy and supervision to both colleagues and colleagues within external partner agencies in line with THRIVE.

As the post is identified within the CYPMH strategy, it is expected the role will continue to develop in line with national and local initiatives.

The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users and their carers. The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery and THRIVE., To hold a caseload of complex assessments, treatment and consultation work based upon a specialised, conceptual framework and employing research-based evidence.

To provide direct specialist therapeutic interventions in line with the grading of the post, including assessments, formulation and therapeutic input into children, young people and families who are referred into the service.

Undertake risk assessments and care plans accordingly, in line with the THRIVE framework

To work in ways that are sensitive to the needs of children and young people families from a wide range of racial, cultural and religious backgrounds.

To be responsible for the authorising of referrals to children and Young People's services, including urgent referrals

To participate directly in the team's duty rota and provide support and guidance to other colleagues undertaking the role.

To exercise responsibility and autonomy, within supervisory, managerial and accountability structures, for the assessment, treatment and discharge of clients

To deliver care co-ordination, ensuring effective assessment, care planning and risk management processes are maintained. Involve the views of children, their families, referring agents and other professionals involved in the network of care including organising multi-agency meetings.

To produce a clinical formulation and intervention plan founded on evidence-based practice in co-operation with the child's, young person and carers

To hold responsibility for standards of clinical practice within the area of specialist knowledge

To work jointly and collaboratively with other team members in order to enhance and develop the provision of services to young people and their families. To have an effective knowledge base of other modalities so as to engage and work effectively with colleagues in other disciplines.

To provide consultation, advice and guidance to colleagues and their team this is underpinned by theoretical specialist knowledge. To promote effective multi-agency work. To contribute theoretical knowledge to the process of managing risk within the multi-agency network.

Undertake risk management for all children including the protective and risk factors present in the network of significant relationships.

Identify and respond appropriately to child protection issues, as described within the guidelines of the Local Safeguarding Children's Board and the Trust safeguarding policies

Maintain clear and comprehensive electronic clinical records, to ensure information is accurate and complies with Data Protection Act and professional body and Trust standards.

To engage with using routine outcome measures as clinically appropriate including their use in clinical practice and inputting data into clinical records.

To work collaboratively with children, young people and their families and contribute to the trust's service user participation agenda.

COMMUNICATION

To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner information concerning the assessment, formulation and treatment plans of clients and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of both multi and uni-disciplinary care. To effectively communicate professional opinions, verbally and in writing to other relevant professionals.

Attend Child Protection Case conferences as a representative of children and young people's mental health services.

Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to children, young people and families and to other professionals within young people's services.

Communicate effectively with children, young people and their carers, when in crisis and in challenging family situations

Organise and facilitate multi-agency meetings and reviews

Elicit highly sensitive information using engagement/ communication skills which are appropriate to the young person's stage of development

Work, as part of an integrated multi-professional team, ensuring good communication and working relationships with other professionals

Provide written reports detailing the progress of the mental health intervention.

TEACHING, TRAINING AND SUPERVISION

To provide specialist clinical supervision to professionals within the service.

Participate in regular supervision, engage in reflective practice and committed to continued development.

To provide training to other professionals to improve mental health knowledge and skills in line with the transformation of children and young people's mental health services

To provide specific training and /or presentations to other agencies, statutory and voluntary, and promote and deliver specialist training programmes

To contribute to training placements for a range of professional disciplines from different backgrounds so that trainees acquire the necessary skills, competencies and experience to contribute effectively to positive change. To assess trainees' competencies and write placement reports for trainees in line with Trust, professional body regulations

Work collaboratively with partner agencies within the principles of THRIVE. This will include joint working; clinical supervision; consultation; and training aiming to develop joint working across agencies and disseminate systemic practices.

Maintain registration in accordance with their professional body

Be accountable for your own clinical practice and professional behaviour

MANAGEMENT, POLICY AND SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

Identify priorities and initiatives within the service and advise managers on the level of resources for service development.

Contribute to the service's evidence-based practice by engaging with audits and evaluations as appropriate

To contribute to recruitment processes by assisting with shortlisting, interviewing and the induction of recruited staff.

To support the workload of colleagues within the specialist field by providing specialist supervision.

Provide specialist knowledge to a variety of disciplines to contribute to service development and primary care.

Take a clinical leadership and specialist role within the service including deputising for the team manager as and when required.

Nurse Prescribing [where appropriate]

Maintain relevant clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge, critically appraise and apply information to practice

Consult with patients, diagnose, and generate treatment options and follow-up plans, where applicable within clinical management plans

Prescribe safely and effectively acknowledging your own limitations and scope of practice

Work within the Trust Non-Medical Prescribing policies and procedures.

Participate in, and use the National Prescribing Centre competency framework, to undertake regular audits and reviews, of prescribing practice and medicines management.

Access continued professional development opportunities relating to the Nurse prescribing role.

RESEARCH AND SERVICE EVALUATION

To maintain an up-to-date knowledge of the evidence base in relation to specialist knowledge and other interventions.

To contribute to planning and implementing systems for evaluation and monitoring of therapeutic practice and outcomes of clinical work within the service.

Take responsibility for research, evaluation and audit in response to the clinical and professional interest of the post, and monitor standards, quality and consumer reaction to the provision of services in accordance with NICE guidance

Undertake and participate in appropriate audits. Quality assurance programmes and research as directed.

CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

To receive and engage in regular clinical supervision in accordance with Trust Clinical Governance Standards and the Code of Practice and ethical guidelines of your professional body

To contribute to the development and maintenance of the highest professional standards of practice through active participation in internal and external CPD training in consultation with the post holders' service manager to meet professional body requirements for CPD and registration.

To contribute to the development of best practices in the service by taking part in regular supervision and appraisal and maintaining awareness of current developments in the field.

To maintain professional body registration.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.

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 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 are currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.