Job overview

• The post holder will act as clinical lead to the ICMP team.

• Provide direct line management, leadership, and support to junior colleagues.

•  Assist & support senior staff to deliver care within the service.

•  Develop specialist practice-based clinical models of care.

•  Provide a range of quality services and interventions.

•  Provide effective leadership for a multidisciplinary clinical team, providing a high quality service within the resources available.

• Ensure the development of services that are comprehensive, flexible and promote a culture of service users and carers’ involvement at every stage of the care pathway.

• Lead and manage a multi-professional team of staff with day-to-day clinical responsibility for the team.

• Ensure the development of services that are comprehensive, flexible and promote a culture of service users and carers’ involvement at every stage of the care pathway.

• Provide supervision, mentorship, and leadership for staff within the team.

• Have considerable experience in Mental Health assessment, management, and clinical risk.

• Have a good understanding and a high level of competence with therapeutic skills and be responsive and flexible in their approach to working with adult.

• Take lead in the overall clinical pathways of ICMP service as well as supporting the team and locality manager to ensure quality and timely service delivery.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:

• • Actively contributing to the planning, development and leadership of the Bromley west ICMP mental health service in Oxleas.
  • Have a sound clinical judgment and a wide range of previous experience of working within a community setting.
  • The role will have a clinical and managerial component involving referral / assessment management and overseeing the overall pathways of the service.
  • Liaise with multiple services.
  • Support clinical leads as well supervising frontline staff and input into managing service operational issues.
  • Manage referrals, assessment, and treatment.
  • Demonstrate and provide robust clinical leadership to junior staff with a sound understanding of evidence based nursing practice to provide a pro-active approach to ensure quality and outcome driven practice on a day-to-day basis.
  • Ensure that a culture of effective risk management is present in the team.
  • Ensure that the team functions in line with the agreed operational policy.
  • Participate in recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decisions as designated by the Service Line Manager.
  • Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation.
  • Respond to Safeguarding Adult alerts as appropriate.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care