Practice Development Lead
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Job summary
Looking for an opportunity to make a difference to the delivery of care for service users in the acute mental health care pathway? Do you have a real interest and passion in acute care and want to develop your career further in this field? This is the role for you!
Acute Care Excellence is a programme of improvement to ensure the provision of effective, safe, purposeful and high-quality services. This is a fantastic opportunity to work with our clinical teams to lead this programme in our Acute Care Services which include the Acute Inpatient Service, Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit, Crisis Resolution and Intensive Support Service, Crisis Assessment Unit, Police Pathway and Capacity and Flow Team.
We are looking for a highly motivated, creative and innovative senior clinician who has experience in Acute Care to join our Practice Development Team to develop and embed new ways of working in our services and achieve our vision of providing outstanding acute care to our service users.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to provide expert clinical leadership to the teams, working in partnership with senior colleagues and spend at least 70% of your time in clinical practice.
In conjunction with the Senior Leadership Team for the Acute Care Services you will lead the development of practice highlighted within the Acute Care Excellence and support increased levels of skills, competencies and confidence in all areas of practice. Projects to date have included embedding a robust gatekeeping process in the Crisis Resolution Service, Facilitating Early Discharge from Acute Inpatient Wards, implementing formulation on Acute Inpatient wards and reducing clinical variation.
Working in partnership with the Continuous Improvement Team, you will provide regular progress reports to key stakeholders via the Clinical Governance Structure and the Acute Care Excellence Steering Group
Providing clinical supervision is a key component of this role.
In return we can offer you an effective, supportive team structure and commitment to your professional development.
About us
We are a high quality, high performing NHS foundation trust. We are the main provider of specialist mental health and learning disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York as well as some highly specialised services across the country.We employ around 3,000 staff and every year we have contact with over 25,000 service users. Our vision is to provide outstanding mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. Our ambition is to support our service users and carers, our staff and the communities we serve to live healthy and fulfilling lives. We need people like you to help us achieve our goals; to live our lives free from stigma and discrimination; and to improve the lives of people with a learning disability and mental ill health. We perform well againstlocal and national targetsand inour most recent CQC inspection, 85% of our services were rated good or outstanding.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching,research and development.
Details
Date posted
01 November 2022
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£41,659 to £47,672 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
173-82322-ACUTE
Job locations
Practice Dev Inpatient Adult
Leeds
LS9 7BE
Employer details
Employer name
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Practice Dev Inpatient Adult
Leeds
LS9 7BE
Employer's website
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