Job summary
To provide pathway leadership, ensuring that there is effective coordination between staff and disciplines working within the pathway.Head of ServiceService ManagerPathway LeadMultidisciplinary TeamBetter Mental Health. Better Lives. Better Communities.o To ensure that service users experience timely high-quality holistic wraparound support appropriate to their needs within the pathway.o To ensure that the pathway is well connected to partners and services within the community and this fully integrated within the pathway offer.o To ensure that the pathway works with the single point of access and other interfaces to ensure that transition in and out of the pathway is supportive and focuses on holistic needs.o To ensure that service provided within the pathway is recorded using agreed tools.o To ensure that there are effective mechanisms in place to ensure that agreed data is captured to measure both the quality and effective delivery of the service.o To oversee governance and quality processes within the pathway.o To provide supervision to pathway staff as agreed with the Service Manager.o To ensure effective internal and external communication processes are in place within the pathway.o To ensure that the pathway integrates effectively with the team and there is pathway representation in relevant team and division meetings and processes.
Main duties of the job
o To support the team during the transformation and implementation process, to ensure that services offer access for both service users and to physical health care assessment, specialist physical health support and relevant non statutory organisations.o To establish effective safety planning processes and ensure that delegated local health and fire safety responsibilities are met as required by statute, regulation, legal obligation, and trust policies.o Work with the Service Manager to ensure that staff are compliant withsystems and processes to protect young children and vulnerable adults.Undertaking safeguarding processes in accordance with policy.o To identify training needs in conjunction with the local workforce plano To review referrals to the team on a regular basis, ensuring that allocation of new cases occurs in line with team policy. Recognising service users as individuals will foster collaborative working with other agencies in joint working; agreeing the best approach to meeting individuals' mental health, physical health, and recovery, social, spiritual, and recreational care needs.Ensuring that care provided respects equality and diversity that is supportive of service users and their carers.o To respond to complaints or other concerns as they arise and in accordance with trust policy, and in conjunction with the Services Manager.
About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
The post holder will be aligned with our values:
- We Are Kind
- We Are Respectful
- We Work Together
- We Keep Things Simple
- We Empower
- We Are Proudly Diverse
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide leadership to the MDT to ensure the delivery of high quality and safeclinical services. To ensure that the physical health care and other holistic needs of service usersare assessed by team members To work with the Service Manager to deliver Integrated Governancerequirements and be responsible for delivering effective governance within theteam. This may include contributing to the writing of policy and proceduredocuments relating to clinical practice. To ensure full compliance of team members with key mechanisms to supportclinical delivery including records management, health and social care dataentry, incident reporting, serious untoward incident review and complaints. To ensure that practices are in place that assess, determine, and supportLearning and Development, clinical supervision, managerial supervision andpathway processes. To provide clinical supervision. To provide clinical leadership to a busy pathway within a locality workingalongside the other leaders in the team to ensure that we develop and delivera high-quality service that always has service users at its heart. To contribute to the day-to-day running of the service and support the clinicalleadership across the locality they work in and Islington as a whole. The focusis on ensuring effective flow, retention of specialisms and supporting patientsholistically. To lead on complex clinical decision making for referrals and support individualsto navigate through the Locality Teams to receive the right care at the right timevia effective joint decision making and regular consultation across the LocalityTeams
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide leadership to the MDT to ensure the delivery of high quality and safeclinical services. To ensure that the physical health care and other holistic needs of service usersare assessed by team members To work with the Service Manager to deliver Integrated Governancerequirements and be responsible for delivering effective governance within theteam. This may include contributing to the writing of policy and proceduredocuments relating to clinical practice. To ensure full compliance of team members with key mechanisms to supportclinical delivery including records management, health and social care dataentry, incident reporting, serious untoward incident review and complaints. To ensure that practices are in place that assess, determine, and supportLearning and Development, clinical supervision, managerial supervision andpathway processes. To provide clinical supervision. To provide clinical leadership to a busy pathway within a locality workingalongside the other leaders in the team to ensure that we develop and delivera high-quality service that always has service users at its heart. To contribute to the day-to-day running of the service and support the clinicalleadership across the locality they work in and Islington as a whole. The focusis on ensuring effective flow, retention of specialisms and supporting patientsholistically. To lead on complex clinical decision making for referrals and support individualsto navigate through the Locality Teams to receive the right care at the right timevia effective joint decision making and regular consultation across the LocalityTeams
Person Specification
Qualifications/Registration
Essential
- Recognised registered mental health qualification with approved body
- Registration with approved body
- Substantial post-registration experience
Desirable
- Project Management qualification
- Master's Degree (MSC/MBA) or equivalent experience
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrate an ability to communicate service-related information to senior managers, staff, and external agencies/partners.
- Demonstrate ability for operational planning and business planning.
- Ability to give formal presentations/manage and reconcile conflicting views where there are significant barriers to acceptance or understanding
Experience
Essential
- Recent experience multidisciplinary Community Mental Health Service teams.
- Significant post registration experience required, one of which will be as working with people with complex mental health problems
- Understanding of Mental Health policy and Social Care policy
Person Specification
Qualifications/Registration
Essential
- Recognised registered mental health qualification with approved body
- Registration with approved body
- Substantial post-registration experience
Desirable
- Project Management qualification
- Master's Degree (MSC/MBA) or equivalent experience
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrate an ability to communicate service-related information to senior managers, staff, and external agencies/partners.
- Demonstrate ability for operational planning and business planning.
- Ability to give formal presentations/manage and reconcile conflicting views where there are significant barriers to acceptance or understanding
Experience
Essential
- Recent experience multidisciplinary Community Mental Health Service teams.
- Significant post registration experience required, one of which will be as working with people with complex mental health problems
- Understanding of Mental Health policy and Social Care policy
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
