Mental Health Clinical Lead

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a registered healthcare professional wanting to flourish as a clinical leader to undertake a fixed-term opportunity as our Mental Health Clinical Lead to cover maternity leave.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well-being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post:
We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning with particular focus on:

• To be responsible for the planning, delivery and evaluation of quality mental health care for patients
• Performance monitoring and management including engaging with commissioners and service evaluators as required
• Line management and supervision of staff, including ensuring staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development
• To ensure appropriate professional supervision arrangement are in place
• To be responsible for and directly manage delegated budget
• To actively manage a small caseload of patient
• To ensure that the team provides effective and evidence based interventions which are guided by national, local and professional standards
• Ensure that the team functions in line with the agreed operational polic
• Co-ordinate recruitment and selection of staff within the team, leading on decision
• Respond to serious untoward incidents as appropriate and support any subsequent investigation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name:
Suraj Persand

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