Practice Lead

The Community Mental Health Service is made up of specialist mental health professionals who proactively provide clinic, community based and home-based interventions and therapies and recovery orientated support across a variety of settings. The role of B7 Practice Lead within the Primary Care Mental Health Team has been developed as part of the evolving provision of the Community Mental Health Framework due to its expansion to a city wide service. The Practice Lead role is designed to complement the Clinical Team manager role and contributes to the Senior Leadership Teams decision making forums across the Core Community Services to enhance the quality of service provision in all domains. The role has a particular focus on team/staff development in relation to outcomes for patients. The post holder will be expected to regularly contribute to the MDT support offered to the Primary Care Networks. The Practice Lead is responsible for: Supporting the team to meet CQC standards, using the KLOE guidance to collate evidence and lead on the development and implementation of action plans to both maintain and improve standards of care. Supporting the Community Mental Health Service to achieve their performance targets. The Practice Lead will be responsible for analysing and interpreting data to ensure early identification of any potential performance/service delivery issues and develop action plans to address these. Contributing to the Senior Leadership Meetings promoting positive inter-disciplinary relationships and supporting the culture of psychological safety and positive continuous learning/development opportunities within the team Ensuring that clinicians work within Livewell Southwest policies and GPS policies and ensure that practice standards are high and the team adhere to professional registration requirements. Providing clinical leadership and advice to staff ensuring the flow of service users through the system and promoting implementation of evidence based practice in line with NICE guidelines. This will involve both direct and indirect clinical work with staff and service users, including consultation, coaching, live supervision and caseload supervision. Working collaboratively with stakeholders to co-design and implement new initiatives across the service, leading the change management process, with consideration to the effective management and allocation of resources. This will include workforce planning, development of workforce competencies and training packages to support this as required. Implementing the service audit plan: leading on audits and the development of action plans to ensure adherence to targets, to maintain effective safe practice and high quality care across the service. Contributing to teaching programmes run by the CMHS Leading on investigations including complaints, SIRIS and HR investigations. Representing the teams and organisation in multi agency forums and meetings as required. Deputising for the Senior Clinical Lead & Operational Manager when required There may be a requirement in the future to act as part of the out of hours on-call rota for mental health As an operational manager the post holder will be required to participate in the operational managers on-call rota if requested to do so by the Chief Operating Officer.