Mental Health Clinical Lead

Mental Health Clinical Lead

Location: Shaftesbury, Dorset HMP Guys Marsh

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 per annum

We are proud to be working with Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust who have recently been voted by the Sunday Times as one of the Best Places to Work 2023.

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to escape your current job role and work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past? Now is the time to break into offender healthcare and develop your career.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Mental Health Clinical Lead to join the Mental Health team at HMP Guys Marsh.

What will you be doing?

The post holder will be expected to coordinate and lead team functioning. You will

Be responsible for the planning, delivery and evaluation of quality mental health care for patients

Undertake performance monitoring and management including engaging with commissioners and service evaluators as required

Line manage and supervise staff, including ensuring staff are supported to achieve a high standard of practice via regular supervision, support meetings and personal development

Ensure appropriate professional supervision arrangement are in place

Be responsible for and directly manage delegated budget

Actively manage a small caseload of patient

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

What do you need?

• NMC Registration, or other professional qualification, within Social Work or Psychology
• Degree supplemented by diploma, specialist training
• Community mental health or offender healthcare experience
• Significant experience of and demonstrable achievement in clinical practice in variable settings
• Experience of managing staff and liaising with other agencies

What next?

If this is a role youre interested in, and you want to join the team and help make a difference, please click on the apply button. You will be redirected to a page where you can enter your details, answer a few questions about your experience, and attach your CV. Someone will then be in touch with you to provide you with next steps.

Interested? Click apply now!

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