Clinical Team Lead (Nursing background)
| Posting date: | 16 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £43,742 to £50,056 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43742 - £50056 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2024 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE4 8PQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9313-24-0722 |
Summary
If you like what you've read and would like more information on the duties and responsibilities of this role, please click onto the attached Job Description and Person Specification. The Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) are part of an exciting project funded by NHS England and Improvement, Health Education England and the Integrated Care Board which commenced across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland in 2020. The MHST service has been set up in response to the 2017 government Green Paper: Transforming Children and Young Peoples Mental Health Provision. The aim of the nationally driven MHSTs is to reduce health inequalities and increase access to Mental Health support for children and young people (CYP) through early intervention and Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Li CBT). The MHST service works in selected schools within locality areas and have three core functions: 1. Delivering evidence-based interventions for mild to moderate mental health issues 2. Supporting the senior mental health lead in each school or college to introduce or develop their whole school or college approach. 3. Giving timely advice to school and college staff and liaising with external specialist services, to help children and young people to get the right support and stay in education. Clinical practitioners within the service aim to provide high quality, safe and responsive mental health services to children, young people, parents/carers and professionals provided in accordance with the principles of the THRIVE model, in partnership with service users and partner agencies, working as part of a multi-agency system. The Senior Clinician role will manage and take overall clinical and operational responsibility and oversight for care quality performance and clinical activity by providing professional leadership and guidance, clinical advice and management in relation to the key dimensions of health care quality to ensure that interventions delivered by the team are safe, effective and meet the needs of individuals, families and communities in line with local and national development plans, Trust policies and procedures. This will include providing clinical supervision, clinical and quality assurance and line management of locality teams. The role will be working alongside key external stakeholders and developing relationships between the MHST and educational settings. In addition, Senior Clinicians will be involved in the delivery of our service offer, where appropriate, which will support in clinical and quality governance and ensuring the needs of CYP are met. This includes responsibility for the coordination of services and to promote optimum health, self-management and effective liaison between agencies and ensuring that a personalised service to clients/service users is delivered in accordance with LPT Trust standards. The post holder will work as part of the service operational leadership team through supporting the Family Service Manager to continue to mobilise the MHST offer across LLR