Job responsibilities
Post Title: Clinical
Lead
Responsible to: Head
of Talking Matters
Reporting to: Service
Manager
Job
Purpose
To be
responsible and accountable for the development and delivery of high quality,
responsive, accessible and evidence based psychological services for adults in IAPT
and primary care mental health.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Management, recruitment, policy and service
development
To support the
service manager in the development and delivery of high quality, responsive and
accessible IAPT/Primary Care Psychological Services, including advising both
service and professional management on those aspects of local services where
psychological and/or organisational matters need addressing and appropriately
involving service users and carers at all levels in line with MHM values.
To be jointly
responsible with the service manager for providing routine activity data for
psychological service provision, and additional information as required by IAPT
NHS England), MHM Board of Trustees, Partners and CCG.
To support the
service manager in overseeing the work of the Referral Coordination team (screening
and processing of referrals and liaising with referrers) , ensuring the service
has strong and effective links with other relevant services. To deploy capacity
management and manage waiting times.
To participate in
the planning and development of IAPT/ Primary Care Psychological Services,
ensuring equitable access and taking a lead role as appropriate and required.
To contribute to
business planning, ensuring compatibility between psychological services priorities
and those of the CCG, MHM, Partners, IAPT regionally and nationally and the
wider mental health community.
To represent
locality IAPT/ Primary Care Psychological Services in relevant local and
regional groups and meetings as agreed with the Service Manager.
To support the
management of the human and environmental resources of IAPT/Primary Care
Psychological Services within the
locality, in collaboration with the Service Manager
To participate in
the recruitment of locality staff, both as part of the short-listing process
and as a member of interview panels for any grade/profession as appropriate
To coordinate the
work of the Clinical Management Team ie Step 2 Lead, Step 3 Lead and Deputy
Clinical Lead, in order to ensure appropriate clinical management of waiting
lists.
Clinical Governance
To exercise responsibility for the delivery and
governance of NICE accredited IAPT interventions within the service. Ensuring
systematic, high quality clinical record keeping across the service and bench
marking clinical practice in line with NICE guidance.
Support the Service manager in ensuring robust
systems of clinical risk assessment and management including the reviewing and
processing of incidents.
Clinical
Effectiveness
To clinically hold a small caseload in order to
role model a high quality psychology service to clients with moderate to
complex mental health problems
To provide specialist psychological therapy for
individuals and groups based upon an appropriate psychological conceptual
framework of their difficulties and employing methods of proven efficacy.
To provide specialist psychological therapy for
individuals and groups based upon an appropriate psychological conceptual
framework of their difficulties and employing methods of proven efficacy.
To evaluate and make autonomous decisions about
intervention options, including discharge, ensuring such decisions
appropriately involve others providing care.
To communicate in a skilled and sensitive
manner, information concerning the assessment, formulation and intervention
plans of clients and to monitor and evaluate progress during the course of
therapy.
To provide specialist psychological advice,
guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to
clients care plans.
To undertake risk assessment and risk
management for individual clients and to provide general advice to other
professionals on psychological aspects of risk assessment and management.
Research
and Development
To promote and facilitate a culture of research
and development within the service and be aware of relevant research findings
within the area of psychological therapy
To ensure the dissemination of audit findings,
and the inclusion of these in service changes/developments where appropriate
Training
and Development
To support the Service Manager in communicating
local and national guidance and policies and to determine any local training
needs that these generate.
To promote a culture of continued education and
learning, facilitating the provision of training, education and development
within the service.
To facilitate and support less senior staff in
service development initiatives as agreed with the Service Manager.
To be familiar with, and utilise as appropriate,
information technology and other technical resources to support communication,
data collection and other key elements of the service.
To ensure all practitioners within the service
receive regular, high quality clinical supervision
User
Involvement
To support the service manager in ensuring
appropriate approaches to user involvement, consultation and participation
including systems for receiving feedback from users about their experience of
using services.
Responding to user feedback, including
complaints and making any appropriate changes to service delivery
General
Take responsibility for own health and safety
and the health of safety of colleagues, customers and the general public
Ensure that your line manager is fully informed
of any issues, which may affect the quality of service provision
To attend all relevant meetings both internally
and externally
To attend all supervision sessions or notified
meetings where relevant
To attend all mandatory training sessions.
All
employees have a responsibility to undertake training and development as
required. They also have a
responsibility to assist, where appropriate and necessary, with the training
and development of fellow employees.
All
employees have a responsibility of care for their own and others health and
safety.
This
job description is not exhaustive and is subject to continuous change, in
consultation with the post holder.
Please
note this job description gives a statement of the general purpose of the job
and provides an outline of the duties and responsibilities involved. This does not constitute a contract of employment.
