Job summary
- Main area
- clinical lead St Helens Neurodevelopment Pathway
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 350-CC6492380
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Helen’s and Knowsley CYP Birch Unit
- Town
- St Helens
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Team Leader
Band 7
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to for a band 7 Clinical Team Lead to join the St Helens Neurodevelopment Service for a 12-month secondment. The post is and exciting opportunity for anyone with a variety of backgrounds who has got previous experience of working with children and young people with neuro divergent conditions.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of the multi-disciplinary team, you will work as part of a small team of neurodevelopmental practitioners working with internal and external health providers, in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, support and management of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by undertaking classroom observations and ADOS assessments. Building relationships supporting Children Young people and families while on the NDP journey
The Service is based in the Britch Unit in St Helens Peasley Cross Hospital.
As part of the community service, we work closely and well with education, clerical support staff, children's outpatients and community paediatricians. We are encouraged to attend training events to support us in our roles. Each day presents its own challenges and enjoyment working with the young people and their individual and specific needs.
Please see attached Job Description for further information
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team
- Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the area.
- Work in partnership with other services/stakeholders , to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
- Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical
- Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring appropriate delegation and delivery of patients/client
- Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients/clients with both planned and unplanned care
- Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical
- Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health
- Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management
- Acts as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and
- Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity
- Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision
- Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the team when managing complex and highly complex
- Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical
- Work in collaboration with other stakeholders to deliver services to patients/clients.
- Following holistic assessment of health needs, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients/clients and
- Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified
- Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long-term conditions and end of life/palliative
- Set objectives by which performance will be
- Work with the service lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to
- Provide reports to the service lead on staff and patient activity as requested
- Work in collaboration with others to support practice development and service
- Contribute to the development of role and service redesign.
- Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as
- Provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and
- Be an authorised signatory, ensuring probity in the authorisation of timecards and mileage claims.
- Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget
- Undertake personal development plans (PDP) and ensure all team members
- Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect local needs
- Have up to date PDPs, monitor Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) and
- Ensure that all staff attend mandatory
- Ensure that administration and clerical duties are appropriately delegated to clerical support
- Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and
- Participate in audits and research, as
- Participate in individual and group
- Implement mentorship and clinical supervision with the
- Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional
- Initiate training and development of team
- Monitor and maintain standards of patient care Including maintaining and monitoring of clinical competency and standards of record keeping
- In conjunction with the service lead, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision and
- Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service
- Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the service lead.
- Monitor and ensure that the quality of the patient care delivered by the team is evidenced based and supported by best practice, through the use of audit, caseload and clinical
- Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient
- Maintain registration in line with professional
- Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring
- Identify skills deficits within the team identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement and
Person specification
essential criteria
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification
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
- Emma Winstanley
- Job title
- Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01744 415608
- Additional information
Pat McKnight Operational Manager 07788301162
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