About this role
Job summary
Oxleas adult learning disability services are excited to welcome applications for the role of clinical lead for mental health. This pivotal role oversees three mental health in learning disability nursing teams across Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich, including the newly created 'Mental Health In-reach' service, which offers expert learning disability nursing support to Oxleas' acute mental health wards. The clinical lead will also hold a small complex case load within the Bromley community learning disability team.
Main duties of the job
Providing high quality specialist nursing intervention and leadership, at a local team level, to meet the mental health needs of adults with learning disabilities, living in Bromley. Overseeing mental health in learning disability nursing practice at a service wide level, across the boroughs of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich. Supporting the development of effective pathways and strategies, relevant to mental health in learning disability nursing, across all three boroughs. Supervising the senior community learning disability nurses in each of the Mental Health in Learning Disability (MHinLD) teams, across the three boroughs of Bromley, Bexley and Greenwich. Supervising the clinical nurse specialist for mental health, within the mental health in-reach service.
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. 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 new values:
We're Kind We're Fair We Listen We Care
Job description Job responsibilities
Be an autonomous practitioner, able to assess, interpret clinical findings, develop a clinical formulation and implement a treatment plan. Provide clinical expertise, leadership, supervision and support across the Mental Health in Learning Disability (MHinLD) nursing pathways. Manage a local caseload, within the Bromley MHinLD team. Review and lead on quality improvement initiatives/audits. Attend the directorate Clinical Effectiveness Group, updating on clinical leadership developments within the MHinLD nursing pathway. Analyse and manage highly complex changing health and social care situations. Prioritise referrals/unscheduled calls at short notice due to sudden changes in clinical presentation, or social care requirements. Maintain effective multidisciplinary/multi-agency communication to ensure the highest quality of risk assessment and care planning, and/or review. To ensure key performance Indicators and quality information is maintained and produced.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications Essential
RNLD or RMN qualification Relevant master's degree level qualification or equivalent CPD
Experience Essential
Sufficient mental health in learning disability experience as a RNLD or RMN Sufficient leadership experience at a senior nursing level Sufficient clinical expertise, in meeting the mental health needs of people with learning disabilities Experience of involvement in service development initiatives
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge Essential
Up-to-date knowledge of current legislation and relevant NHS policy relating to mental health and learning disability Ability to communicate complex & sensitive health information across services, including communicating with patients and carers/family
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address Queen Mary's Hospital
Frognal Avenue
Sidcup
DA14 6LT
United Kingdom
Employer's website http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)