Clinical Lead

The clinical excellence lead role is intended to provide a clear focus on the clinical and quality standards within the Home Treatment team, to work collaboratively with the team Manager and other members of the leadership team to champion and embed a culture of best practice.

The post holder will act as a learning leader and be at the forefront of identifying and delivering clinical and social skills training to the MDT to ensure continual practice improvement is in place.

The post-holder will work collaboratively with the borough Head of Quality and Acute Service Manager to identify and develop quality improvement plans and initiatives specifically for the adult acute pathway service line and will be expected to take a key role in delivering the plans successfully.

The Clinical excellence lead will deliver a number of sustainable projects within the adult Home Treatment team that supports the Trust’s 4 big ambitions and the embedding of standards of a crisis resolution team.

To ensure nursing practice is delivered from an accepted evidence base

and in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct, Mental Health Act,

Community Care Legislation and the policies and procedures of Pennine

Care.

To provide a learning leader role and a focus on the learning requirements

for staff, commissioning learning and acting as an authority on practice

improvement

To promote developments in nursing within Crisis Service

in line

with the Trust’s 5 year plan and overarching quality strategy.

To establish a forum to offer support and clinical supervision to the Home Treatment team.

To be a visible and pro-active clinical leader and role model within the multi disciplinary team and actively participate in the delivery of clinical issues care at local level including clinical risk assessment.

To support the service area in achieving clinical governance objectives by

assisting in individual service reviews, ensuring action plans are formulated and best practice is shared.

Maintain own skills and clinical credibility by appropriate updates.

To undertake clinical work as a way of measuring standards and identify

areas of concern and excellence.

To keep up to date with current clinical practice for own area of work.

Support staff in the management of complex cases

Act as a resource to all staff.

Ensure and promote research-based practice.

Support implementation and embedding of extending the Home Treatment team to a 24 hour offer.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

• We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.
  
  

Our ambition is to maximise people’s potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Smith Job title: Service Manager Email address: lucy.smith214@nhs.net

You can contact me via MSTeams on the above email address.