Clinical Lead

Description:

The Mental Health Urgent Care Department, is a facility where adults, aged 18 years and above, who are experiencing a mental health crisis can receive an urgent biopsychosocial assessment with immediate care planning. It is a new, purpose built department based at the Basildon Mental Health Unit on the Basildon university Hospital site.

The Clinical Lead role is responsible for providing senior clinical leadership and advice within the Mental Health Urgent Care Department that provides full emergency mental health assessments and onward care planning with a diverse and highly skilled mental health workforce incorporating support workers, peer coaches, social worker, nurses and doctors. The service can support every aspect of emergency mental health care planning from GP referrals, ambulance conveyance to Mental Health Act Assessments, whilst providing 24/7 access for ‘walk in’s.’

The role will require the post holder to provide managerial input, clinical leadership and day to day coordination of clinical practice to support the effective delivery of care across the service.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead and inspire the delivery of high quality and effective urgent care service for patients, carers and professionals.

• You will have continuing responsibility for proactive assessment, monitoring and management of patients and ensuring care is current, evidence based and in line with practice standards.
• You will provide clinical leadership to the team in evaluation and monitoring of the service, provide specialist assessment as per the service users, and carer’s requirement.
• You will lead with other senior colleagues the continuing development of a high quality service that is underpinned by evidence based practice and care pathways / packages and NICE guidance and DH guidance; leading on service development and policy in conjunction with the other Advanced Practitioners, senior clinicians, Clinical Manager and Operational Services Manager
• The post holder will ensure compliance with statutory duties; Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and performance targets (including meeting the recommended response times following evidence based practice) and quality improvement measurements assigned to the service