We are seeking to recruit an experienced, motivated and innovative clinical lead within the Rapid Assessment Psychosis Team (RAPT). The post holder will provide day to day clinical leadership to ensure timely, safe and effective delivery of care to service users and their families across Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley boroughs.
They will:
Provide clinical leadership, direction and robust clinical decision making across the psychosis teams.
Ensure the delivery of high-quality care by continually developing the service and improving standards.
Oversee the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions for service users and their families.
Work alongside staff across the pathway to support and develop their clinical skills and experience.
Build and maintain the positive reputation of the team and service.
Provide clinical supervision and consultation to a range of professionals across the psychosis pathway.
Provide clinical leadership and expertise to staff, leading day to day clinical decision making
Lead/ chair clinical team meetings and forums including referrals, zoning, complex case discussions, reflective practice and discharge planning.
Enable staff across the pathway to complete person centred clinical risk assessments and formulations and oversee development of robust safety plans.
Deliver evidence based NICE concordant interventions for people experiencing psychosis and their families.
Lead the team to develop proactive and safe discharge plans for service users.
Develop and maintain partnership working arrangements with a wide range of statutory and voluntary organisations.
Work with service users and families in a variety of settings, including the person’s home and a range of community settings.
Be directly accountable for own professional action, quality of clinical intervention provided and the maintenance of high standards of care within professional codes of practice, professional ethics and legal standards.
Develop therapeutic relationships with service users and families and support the team to engage flexibly and creatively to allow access to services and treatments.
Lead the team to provide culturally appropriate services and interventions for service users and families.
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
Further detailed information relating to the role and responsibilities can be found in the attached supporting documentation
