Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To provide clinical assurance of the quality of the care provided by specialised services within the LAT.2. Improving quality and outcomes3. Supporting the team in the assurance of specialised services compliance to applicable specification and guidance.4. The post-holder will provide the link with Clinical Commissioning Groups and their commissioned services within the LAT to ensure there is a co-ordinated approach to careand discharge planning, which results in robust and effective care packages.5. Managing individual patient pathways to ensure high quality services and care planning outcomes are achieved6. To take action in respect of Safeguarding Policies and Procedures as required

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Mental Health/ Learning Disability Nurse or other registered health or social care professional.

Desirable

• Possess a relevant additional professional qualification e.g., Forensic Psychiatry Diploma, Master's level, or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Detailed knowledge of legal issues pertaining to the specialist service, including MHA 1983, after care under supervision, sex offender legislation, probation orders and life licence, Ministry of Justice procedures and child protection legislation.
• Detailed operational knowledge of secure services, including risk assessment/management.
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
• Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
• Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
• Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
• Member of relevant professional body.
• Continuous Improvement.
• Accountability
• Respectfulness
• Enthusiasm
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Strong customer service belief
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change Orientated
• Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
• Demonstrably involves patients and the public in their work.
• Consistently puts clinicians at the heart of decision making.
• Values diversity and difference, operates with integrity and openness.
• Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
• Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation
• Actively develops themselves and others.
• Development and maintenance of therapeutic alliance with service users and their families /cares.
• High-level management skills, able to perform to high level in clinical setting, holding services to account and ensuring effective use of NHSCB resources
• Case management skills, focussing on the needs of the individual and the context of their pathway in relation to all clinical and legal processes
• High-level communication in particular skills across a range of agency and professional boundaries at a national level.
• Communication Skills
• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
• Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
• Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
• Analytical Skills.
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
• Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
• Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
• Planning Skills
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
• Management Skills
• Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
• Autonomy/ Freedom to Act.
• Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
• Equality and Diversity
• Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems
• Financial and Physical Resources Management Experience.
• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
• Used to working in a busy environment
• Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
• Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
• Professional calm and efficient manner
• Effective organiser, influencer and networker.
• Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website .

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hollins Park Hospital

Hollins Lane

Warrington

WA2 8WA