Band 7 Secondment - Clinical Lead/ Deputy Manager

at  Barnet Enfield Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

JOB SUMMARY:

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Enfield Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (ECRHTT) for a Band 7 Clinical Lead/Deputy Manager secondment post.
The Enfield CRHTT is a 24 hour per day, 7 day per week service which provides urgent care for people experiencing mental health crisis as an alternative to hospital admission. The team views crisis as meaningful, a crossroads in someone’s life. We draw on several different models to understand this including family/systemic perspectives and the recovery model. The CRHT is crucial in delivering urgent crisis resolution assessments and treatment for service users by assessing their needs and caring for them in the least restrictive environment. The service will also ensure effective gatekeeping of all service users referred to the service for admission to Hospital. The post holder will ensure a high-quality responsive service to service users and referrers.

To manage the single point of contact of referrals for people who are in mental health crisis within the London boroughs of Barnet Enfield and Haringey.
1.1 Have managerial accountability for the delivery of quality service for users of the ECRHTT
1.2 Participate in the recruitment, selection & retention of staff
1.3 Managing CRHTT roster to ensure CRHTT is adequately staffed from within agreed establishment.
1.4 Assist team manager with line management and budgetary responsibility for clinicians and admin staff working in CRHTT
1.5 Be responsible for effective clinical and managerial communication systems to, from and within the CRHTT.
1.6 Ensure effective Triaging and screening of referrals and management of inappropriate referrals.
1.7 Provide expert clinical leadership to ensure a high standard of service to referrers and guidance to CRHTT
1.8 Work Closely and alongside all trust inpatient wards, DIT, Patient Flow, Psychiatric Liaison Teams and community services to ensure the best use of resources
1.9 Work in partnership with the Internal Teams across the Trust as well as external referrers
1.10 Liaising with professional external referrers and developing relationships e.g., GP’s, police etc.
1.11 Ensure that there are effective support and supervision processes for staff working in ECRHTT
1.12 Ensuring that there are robust Clinical Governance processes in CRHTT
Working for North London Mental Health Partnership
The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:
The Clinical Lead/Deputy team manager post is central to delivering development and effective operational management of the CRHTT.
The post holder will be expected to collaborate closely with the Team Manager, Service Manager, Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychological Therapies Lead.
The post holder is accountable for supporting the team manager with the allocation, deployment, prioritization and delivery of the service and for implementing and reviewing systems, policies, standards and procedures that ensure the provision of high-quality services within frameworks agreed by the Trust.
The post holder will work closely with the Team Manager to maintain the day to day running of the service, providing senior clinical input and support to the team, playing a key role in building internal and external interfaces with the Acute Inpatient wards, Psychiatric Liaison Teams, the AMPH service, Core Teams, the MHCAS , and contributing to the ongoing development of the Crisis Telephone Service to further improve patient experience and outcomes.
As a Clinical Lead/Deputy Manager, you will provide and develop a working environment and culture of trust, openness and effective team working, which fosters high morale, commitment and optimum performance among all staff and promotes their well-being, professional and personal development in line with service needs.
You will be expected to work a flexible shift pattern across 7 days including weekends and night