Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Team Leader
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 222-LS-AMHS-266
- Employer
- West London NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hammersmith & Fulham Mental Health Unit
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Team Leader
Band 6
West London NHS Trust provides a full range of mental health, community and physical healthcare services for children, adults and older people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow.
We also provide some specialist services that are commissioned regionally, such as our medium secure services; and nationally, such as the Cassel Hospital for people with complex and severe personality disorder and our high secure services at Broadmoor Hospital.
Job overview
The HBPoS provides a place of safety for those detained under S135 and S136 of the Mental Health Act. The service provides a safe place for those detained to be assessed by the HBPoS team, S12 approved doctors and AMHP. The post holder will provide care, support and assessments of all clients who enter the HBPoS.
The HBPoS is a nursing led service which provides intensive support, treatment and care for up to 24 hours for people who are deemed to be experiencing a mental health crisis.
We aim to maintain excellent interpersonal relationships with both internal and external parties to ensure we provide comprehensive and holistic care to our service users in the short amount of time we have.
Main duties of the job
· To accept S136/S135 paperwork from police/AMHP and ensure all information is accurate and that you have received a comprehensive handover.
· To provide holistic nursing care to clients including physical assessments, risk assessments, mental state assessments, intensive interventions to highly distressed individuals and complete relevant assessment tools.
· To gather collateral information on clients from GP, community teams, liaison with other trusts and family and friends if possible.
· Appropriately manage highly emotional, verbally aggressive, abusive or threatening clients and defuse such situations when appropriate, often under difficult and hostile circumstances.
· Provide guidance and support to junior members of staff.
· Support with quality improvement in the service
· To make decisions autonomously to improve patient care and experience and maintain safety
Working for our organisation
West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse providers of mental health, community and social care in the UK.
Our 3,982 staff care for people in hospital and in the community, helping them to recover and go on to lead full and productive lives. We aim to be the best organisation of our kind in the country.
We provide care and treatment for more than 800,000 people living in the London boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham and Hounslow, delivering services in the community (at home, in GP surgeries and care homes), hospital, specialist clinics and forensic (secure) units.
We’re rated good overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Together, we’re committed to promoting hope and wellbeing, working with patients, service users, carers, families and partners across the communities we serve.
We are keen to ensure that our workforce reflects the community it serves, particularly in terms of ethnicity, gender, disability, LGBTQ+ and experience of mental illness.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a HBPoS nurse you are responsible for the care and safety of all service users who come into contact with our service and for the staff whom work alongside you.
You will maintain excellent interpersonal relationships with internal and external parties, including but not limited to: NHS 111, police, AMHP service, EDT, medical team, GP service, A&E/liaison, community mental health teams, crisis teams and SPA/bed management (internal and external).
You will carry out and support your team to carry out mental state examinations, physical health assessments, comprehensive risk assessments and de-escalation interventions.
A major aspect of this role is ensuring the correct S136 process has been followed, including prior to the service user’s arrival and whilst they are receiving care in the service and ensuring the correct escalation process is followed where necessary
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Professional
- Mentorship qualification.
- Evidence of post registration further development
Desirable criteria
- Qualification in psychosocial interventions in mental health.
- KUF training.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post qualification experience to include appropriate experience within an acute mental health care setting and / or significant experience within community, crisis care, or liaison psychiatry.
- Experience of working with other professions within a multi-disciplinary team.
- To understand and have experience of risk management.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of mentoring students.
- Experience of Psychiatric Liaison services.
- Experience of Crisis Team services.
Knowledge/skills
Essential criteria
- A high level of both written and spoken English language.
- Knowledge of relevant mental health law.
- IT literate – specifically in the MS office suite of programmes.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of RiO patient record system.
- Excellent communication skills including common courtesy and listening skills
- Accredited training in customer service.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emily Beagrie
- Job title
- HBPoS Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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