Clinical Lead - OPMH

Job summary

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.

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.