- Are you interested in improving the health access experience and outcomes for patients and reducing race disparities in our service?
- Are you interested in exploring workforce attitudes on the use of coercive measures in acute mental health services?
- Would you like to combine your leadership and management skills to lead quality improvement methodology in a progressive acute environment?
If the answer is ‘yes’, we would like you to come and join us in this exciting unique programme.
The Ethnicity, Mental Health Improvement Programme (EMHIP) is a three-year innovative locality-based service improvement programme consisting of five key interventions to reduce ethnic inequalities in access, experience and outcomes of mental health care in South West London.
It is a collaborative partnership, South West London ICS, South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust and Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network (WCEN) and local BME communities.
The Post Holder Will Lead And Manage The Implementation For a One-year Pilot Project, Key Intervention 3 Of EMHIP Which Aims To Reduce The Use Of Coercive And Restrictive Practices In Adult, Acute Inpatient Wards At SWLSTG, And Support The Scaling Up Across All Inpatient Acute Wards To Deliver The Desired Outcomes
- Reduction in coercion
- More consensual care
- Improved therapeutic engagement and therapeutic alliance between service users and staff.
- Service user ownership of decisions concerning their care and treatment.
- Better treatment adherence
- Improved family involvement in care and treatment
- More accountable and transparent clinical decision-making.
You will be responsible to contributing to the development of a detailed bespoke programme liaising with staff, to promote new ways of working that support a positive and proactive approach to care that helps to reduce the need for coercive and restrictive practice, through the implementation of a Framework for Shared decision making.
The post holder will be responsible for developing a programme to recruit Mental Health Mediators (MHM), and be responsible for ensuring support, supervision, and facilitation of reflective practice. You will work closely with the WCEN Lived Experience Assessment Panel (LEAP).
The post-holder will need to develop strong relationships with other practitioners and work in partnership with patients, carers to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.
We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.
We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.
This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.
We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.
We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.
About our locations:
Springfield University Hospital, Tooting
Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Puja Matthews Job title: Matron Email address:
[email protected]
