Clinical Lead

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Acute and Rehabilitation Directorate for a creative and dynamic Band 7 RMN to join our Barking Dagenham & Havering Adult Home Treatment Team. The service provides an integrated and coordinated system of mental health care to service users in a mental health crisis, for whom the only alternative would be admission to hospital. This specialist team consists of Multi Disciplinary professionals and covers the Barking Dagenham & Havering London boroughs of NELFT therefore applicants must be able to drive and work unsocial hours, weekends and bank holidays. The successful candidate will have proven experience in working with Adults with complex mental health needs and excellent skills in clinical leadership, as well as a varied professional experience in mental health. The post holder will need to demonstrate the ability to work within a Home Treatment model and be able to demonstrate positive risk taking ensuring that service users are always offered a realistic alternative to acute mental health admission. The team gatekeep all mental Health admissions for Adults and therefore excellent knowledge of the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act are essential. Key Responsibilities: * Provide a range of intervention and assessment of patients, including those with multiple pathologies and complex mental health needs, taking into consideration assessment of the patient's physical/cognitive/perceptual skills to identify the patient's abilities and areas of difficulty. * To deputise when required in the absence of the Team/Service Lead and delegate appropriately to more junior members of staff, support workers. * To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register. * Provide specialist clinical advice to other team members on the suitability of various assessments and intervention methods where appropriate. * To participate and take a lead role in the development of an effective team and the development of productive working relationships throughout the Trust. * To facilitate the development of a positive and 'supportive' team culture by taking responsibility for dealing effectively with potential conflict. * Have specialist knowledge in the field of adults mental health in order to carry out assessments and interventions which are underpinned by relevant theoretical approaches whilst ensuring regular evaluation of the care plan. * To oversee decisions made by the team in the day to running of the service and escalate any complex / high risk issues to the team manager. This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff). At NELFT we set very high standards to ensure we provide quality services. We require prospective employees to carry out an online literacy and numeracy test, equivalent to NVQ Level 2. For more information regarding our assessments, please visit our website. If you are shortlisted, invited for interview and successfully offered the post, you will be required to undertake an assessment for these skills during the pre-employment checks. NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham Essex This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary as per agenda for change. For further details / informal visits contact: For further information or to arrange an informal visit please contact the Team Manager Imran Khan Imran.khan@nelft.nhs.uk 0300 3001882 Employment Type: FULL_TIME