Clinical Lead – OPMH

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Full time
Location: Chard
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Are you an experienced Mental Health Practitioner/Manager looking for an exciting new opportunity in South Somerset?

For this post, we are looking to seek a Registered Mental Health Nurse or a Registered General Nurse with Mental Health experience.

To provide advanced clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical analysis, and advanced decision-making skills.

To manage change, to monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence-based practice, clinical audit, research and education. To promote and demonstrate best practice by integrating evidence into practice.

To maintain a clinical caseload within the Older Persons Community Mental Health Team of at least 50% of contractual hours, for which they are personally accountable and professionally responsible.

This Secondment post offers a rare opportunity to maintain and develop your clinical practice within a leadership and management role.

Main duties of the job

Advise and communicate as appropriate with acute hospitals, primary and social care and community teams thus ensuring seamless continuity and transfer (if appropriate) of care for patients between other relevant health, social and third sector agencies, professionals and other care settings.

Establish, maintain and effectively manage barriers to advanced, highly skilled and effective communication with service users, carers and professionals across health and social care, and education services as appropriate in order to develop a therapeutic relationship within which highly sensitive, distressing health conditions and complex issues are often addressed. This includes imparting information regarding diagnosis, prognosis and treatment and referring to other teams as appropriate to promote integrated working and to improve patient outcomes.

Contribute to the development, implementation and audit of protocols, guidelines and policies for the service. These will be shared with the multi-professional teams in all care settings.

Participate in maintaining systems for risk assessment and minimisation including promoting a 'fair blame' culture in order that near misses and incidents are reported and investigated.

Contribute to investigation of incidents and complaints when required participate in identifying lessons learnt and the sharing of learning across the organisation.

About us

At

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust , we're committed to supporting our employees with a range of benefits designed to enhance your professional and personal life. We offer:

Flexible working options

to help you balance work and life NHS pension scheme

for long-term financial security Generous annual leave allowance

to recharge and relax A strong focus on

career development

to help you grow and achieve your potential

Additionally, you'll gain access to our

Blue Light Card , unlocking exclusive discounts on shopping, dining, and leisure activities, as well as NHS-specific perks to support you both inside and outside of work.

We are proud to foster a

diverse, skilled, and inclusive workforce , and we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

Why Somerset?

Somerset offers the perfect blend of

idyllic countryside, outstanding areas of natural beauty , and

breath-taking coastlines , with vibrant cities like

Bristol ,

Bath , and

Exeter

just a short drive away - and only two hours to

London .

The region is home to excellent

educational facilities , and with affordable housing compared to other parts of the country, it's a great place to build both your career and your future.

Somerset truly has it all

- the peaceful countryside and cosmopolitan city life, with something for everyone to enjoy.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide high quality person centred care which always considers people's safety, privacy and dignity using advanced clinical knowledge that is evidence based.

To undertake independent assessment and management of service users to incorporate pharmacological considerations, where appropriate making complex clinical decisions regarding service user management and clinical outcomes.

To provide advanced clinical advice, leadership and support ensuring the needs of the service are met by exercising and demonstrating high levels of clinical judgement, critical analysis and advanced decision making skills.

To manage change, to monitor and improve standards through supervision, evidence based practice, clinical audit, research and education. To promote and demonstrate best practice by integrating evidence into practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Current registration with relevant professional body i.e. NMC/HCPCRelevant degree or equivalent experience

Desirable

Leadership/Management Qualification

Experience

Essential

Experience at Registered Practitioner Band 6 level. Able to demonstrate specialist expertise and knowledge underpinned by theory acquired through CPD in relation to clinical assessment, treatment and evaluation. Evidence of risk management skills and experience. Evidence of involvement in meeting relevant clinical governance objectives. Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention. Evidence of involvement in the development of programmes of care, protocols and audit. Experience of multi-disciplinary working. Able to demonstrate innovation and effective use of resources.

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please refer to the Person Specification on the Job Description

Employer details

Employer name

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bracken House

Crewkerne Road

Chard

Somerset

TA20 1YA

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