Quality Lead

Job summary

Are you a Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker/Psychologist looking for a new leadership challenge?

South Shropshire Mental Health Service are looking to recruit a Band 7 Quality Lead to provide expert clinical knowledge and interventions, advice, support and supervision in the multi-disciplinary pathway, to colleagues, service users and carers. Youwill be responsible for providing leadership to deliver evidence based care and interventions and providing professional leadership within the team alongside the team Operational Lead.

The team is geographically spread across the South East and South West PCN network area with bases in Ludlow and Bridgnorth, the post holder whilst being able to choose their main base would be expected to provide clinical guidance to the teams in both bases.

South Shropshire Mental Health Service provides a variety of functions, and you would be part of driving the quality agenda in all areas of the team including Assessments and Brief Interventions, Primary Care Interventions, Intensive Community Engagement Pilot, Caseload management and supervision.

Main duties of the job

To provide appropriate advice to team staff, multi-disciplinary and Management Groups.

To promote, encourage and develop integration between Community and inpatient services.

In conjunction with the operational lead, monitor and manage the performance of the team and individual team members, to ensure achievements of Trust organisational targets/objectives.

Ensure compliance with the Trust's objectives in relation to the Quality and Safety Agenda achieving a continuous process of monitoring and improving safe effective care delivery

Maintain a strong overview on environmental standards and address any issues relating to safety, dignity, poor quality and poor hygiene and Infection Control.

Promote service audit, evaluation and research.

To lead the development of service standards and policy, including benchmarking, and identifies areas for potential service improvement.

To promote shared decision making with Service User involvement in all aspects of their care

To ensure the availability of clinical supervision and preceptorship

To act as the pathway link, enabling other pathways to engage support for a service user.

To utilise expert clinical knowledge and nursing skills and /or specific to discipline to provide assessment, intervention and clinical guidance as appropriate.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications