Clinical Practice Lead
Posted 1 week ago by Devon Partnership NHS Trust
£56,515 Per year
Undetermined
Undetermined
Paignton, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Clinical Practice Lead will provide clinical leadership and guidance to multidisciplinary teams within the Adult Community Mental Health Riviera team in Torbay. This role focuses on delivering high standards of care for service users with complex mental health needs, promoting evidence-based interventions, and supporting professional development among clinicians. The position is on a fixed-term basis until 31st March 2027, emphasizing collaboration with various professionals to enhance integrated care and service delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide clinical leadership and professional guidance to multidisciplinary teams within community mental health services.
- Promote and maintain high standards of clinical practice, ensuring care is safe, effective, and aligned with current evidence and guidelines.
- Lead on the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical practice standards and protocols.
- Support clinicians in delivering person-centred, recovery-focused care to individuals with complex mental health needs.
- Provide clinical supervision, mentoring, and coaching to staff to support professional development and reflective practice.
- Identify training and development needs within the team and facilitate learning opportunities.
- Monitor clinical outcomes, quality indicators, and service performance, implementing improvement initiatives where required.
- Lead or contribute to clinical audits, quality improvement projects, and service evaluations.
- Ensure compliance with professional, regulatory, and organisational standards and policies.
- Work collaboratively with service managers, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and other professionals to support integrated care delivery.
- Contribute to risk management, safeguarding processes, and incident review to improve safety and learning.
- Support the implementation of evidence-based interventions and new models of care within community mental health services.
- Engage with service users, carers, and partner organisations to improve service design and delivery.
Key Skills:
- Experience in clinical leadership within mental health services.
- Strong knowledge of evidence-based interventions and clinical practice standards.
- Ability to mentor and support professional development among staff.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience in quality improvement and clinical audit processes.
- Understanding of risk management and safeguarding in mental health.
- Ability to engage effectively with service users and partner organisations.
Salary (Rate): £56,515.00 yearly
City: Paignton
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job summary We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Clinical Practice Lead to join our Adult Community Mental Health Riviera team in Torbay on a fixed term / secondment basis until 31st March 2027 . The Clinical Practice Lead will provide clinical leadership and professional guidance to multidisciplinary teams, championing high standards of care and driving improvements in clinical practic e. This pivotal role focuses on delivering safe, effective, and person-centred care for service users, particularly those with complex mental health nee ds. You will lead the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical standards and protocols, promote evidence-based interventions and new models of care, and play a key part in service design and delivery by engaging with service users, carers, and partner organisations. Additionally, you will support clinicians through supervision, mentoring, and coaching, facilitating learning opportunities to foster professional development and reflective pract ice. Working collaboratively with service managers, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and other professionals, you will contribute to integrated care, risk management, safeguarding, and continuous quality improve ment.
Main duties of t he job
- Provide clinical leadership and professional guidance to multidisciplinary teams within community mental health se rvices.
- Promote and maintain high standards of clinical practice, ensuring care is safe, effective, and aligned with current evidence and guid elines.
- Lead on the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical practice standards and pro tocols.
- Support clinicians in delivering person-centred, recovery-focused care to individuals with complex mental health needs.
- Provide clinical supervision, mentoring, and coaching to staff to support professional development and reflective pr actice.
- Identify training and development needs within the team and facilitate learning opportu nities.
- Monitor clinical outcomes, quality indicators, and service performance, implementing improvement initiatives where re quired.
- Lead or contribute to clinical audits, quality improvement projects, and service evalu ations.
- Ensure compliance with professional, regulatory, and organisational standards and po licies.
- Work collaboratively with service managers, psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, and other professionals to support integrated care de livery.
- Contribute to risk management, safeguarding processes, and incident review to improve safety and le arning.
- Support the implementation of evidence-based interventions and new models of care within community mental health se rvices.
- Engage with service users, carers, and partner organisations to improve service design and de livery.