Clinical Lead - Enhanced Mental Health Pathfinder
Job Description
Job summary
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trustare proud to be part of the new Pan-London Enhanced Mental Health Pathfinder Alliance; bringing together the NHS and voluntary sector to improve care for adult victims and survivors of sexual assault and abuse with complex trauma-related mental health needs, enabling recovery and long-term wellbeing.The Alliance aims to strengthen collaboration between statutory and voluntary sector services, improve identification of complex trauma-related needs and develop thecapacity and pathwaysrequiredto delivertimely, sustained,trauma informed support.
We are seeking an psychological professional forapivotal leadership role in the Alliance Management Team, responsible alongside the Alliance Director for ensuring the EMHP Alliance deliversits vision andstrategicobjectives. The post holder will bring experience of working with survivors of sexual harm who have complex mental health needs. They will be a compassionate leader with substantial experience in strategic clinical decision making, leading complex service change, and the ability to influence across a range of organisations. They will occupy a senior psychological professionposition, makingcontributions toprofessional associations,forumsand teaching institutions.They will role modelandchampion the EMHP Alliance's vision and values, buildinga culture where staff, serviceusersand carers from diverse backgrounds flourish.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work autonomously within EMHP Alliance, Oxleas NHS Trust and professional guidelines. Alongside the Alliance Director, the post holder will provide strategic and operational clinical leadership across the Alliance, ensuring safe, effective, trauma-informed evidence-based, timely care for adult survivors of sexual assault and abuse with complex mental health needs. They will lead clinical governance, safeguarding, risk management, service planningandclinicalpathway development across partner organisations, while promoting sharedclinicalstandards, reducing fragmentation and improving access and outcomes. The post holder will chair relevant forums, lead audit, policy and service development with the AMT, overseeevaluationand research activity, and help shape training,supervisionand workforce development. The role requires visible senior leadership, strong partnership working across NHS and voluntary sector services, and a commitment to equity, inclusion, livedexperienceand psychological safety.
The Alliance is made up of six core members: Ashiana, Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Pan London Sexual Violence Alliance, Respond, Solace and Survivor's Trust. The post holder will be required to work in offices of Alliance members on a regular basis.
Please note, this is a pan London development project and the Post holder will be required to travel across the whole of London as part of their duties.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychological therapies, psychiatry, nursing and AHPs and community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy. 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 values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job responsibilities
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation: Job description and person specification.
Key Task and Responsibilities
- To provide senior clinical leadership todevelop, coordinate, monitor and evaluate the overall Pan-London programme of work undertaken by the Alliance following best practice evidence, policy and guidance and London and EMHP Alliance organisational priorities.
- To oversee workforce development and training in specialist, evidence-based clinical approaches and clinically informed care and support, including the development of staff from diverse backgrounds to ensure the staff team reflect the local communities.
- To lead on development, oversight and provision of clinical governance for the work of the Alliance including oversight of clinical audit cycles, incident reporting, learning dissemination, and quality improvement plans.
- To lead on the development of clinical standards, frameworks and clinical pathways of care across the Alliance programme.
- To work closely and in collaboration with Alliance partners; the Alliance Director and wider stakeholders.
- To ensure that the voice of victims and survivors is fully embedded within the work of the Alliance through co-production and lived experience representation.
- To provide effective reporting and guidance to the Alliance Leadership and Delivery Teams within a system of empowered and accountable management; to assist decision making in line with Alliance principles.
- To initiate audit, policy and service development and research activities within the EMHP to ensure the delivery of a reflexive, high quality, and financially efficient interventions with a sound basis in evidence-based treatment and best clinical practice
- To monitor and manage relevant key performance indicators for the EMHP Alliance.
- To effectively foster and develop relationships with both internal and external partners and stake holders Pan London.
- To clinically co-ordinate and oversee the development of SOPs, shared assessment frameworks, and expert clinical consultation within and by the Alliance.
- To embed Trauma-Informed Principles across the work of the Alliance.
- To ensure that they and all psychological practitioners for whom the post-holder has leadership or management responsibility, comply with the registered body Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics/Standards of Proficiency, maintain professional standards and continuing professional development according to the employer,EMHP Alliance Personal Development Plan requirements and any regulating bodies e.g., the UKCP, BABCP & HCPC
- To act as the designated safeguarding lead for the EMHP Alliance, overseeing safeguarding governance, escalation, learning and assurance processes.
Leadership
- To act as a clinical lead for psychological interventions for adult survivors of sexual abuse, to include the development of psychological services in this area, Pan-London.
- To lead on clinical input into Alliance pilots, clinical standards, shared frameworks (including a shared biopsychosocial assessment framework and multi-agency care plan), standard operating procedures and pathway refinement
- To lead as chair of clinical governance committees and relevant sub-groups, being responsible for assurance against CQC, NICE, and professional registration standards and the development ofappropriate supervision structures and standards for the EMHP
- To lead on development and embedding of a consistent trauma-informed clinical culture across NHS and VCSE partners, and with wider stakeholder
- To lead on monitoring, evaluation and outcomes of clinical activities, using service user feedback, clinical data and audit findings to report back to the Alliance Leadership team and commissioners, to inform continuous improvement and to support system wide learning.
Management responsibilities
- To work closely with the Alliance Director to manage clinical risks and emerging issues during mobilisation,and exercise responsibility for developing and delivering plans for management of costs.
- To lead on clinical workforce development related to the Alliance programme and to clinically-inform development of the wider workforce across relevant stakeholder groups, including ensuring systems are in place forcompliance with standards for employment of appropriately trained, qualified, and professionally registered psychological therapy staff.
- To lead on and be responsible for ensuring systems are in place to provide professional, clinical and management supervision and to monitor compliance for all psychological practitioners working with the EMHP Alliance to maintain their professional standards and continuing professional ...
