Our clients are urgently seeking to recruit a
Locum Band 8 Operational Lead to join their Mental Health & Wellness Team.
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm (Remote working and Office working)
Key Responsibilities
Provide leadership and line management for senior clinicians and practitioners within the team. This will include day-today guidance and support to the team, management supervision, performance management, and monitoring service delivery
To provide leadership alongside the Head Service
To engage with a wide range of stakeholders, including users and carers in the mental health care agenda.
To ensure mental health professionals within the team are effectively and appropriately planning care.
To ensure the use of RIO is in line with Trust policy for all users within the team.
To use databases to produce reports / statistics / performance data / flow rates and data on clinical outcomes for the leadership team as required.
To conduct agreed service research and generate appropriate reports and audits on RIO and trust databases to ensure user standards are delivered.
To work with the Assistant Integrated Care Director and Senior Leadership Team to establish the appropriate future direction of the service.
To ensure practice development plans include mental health and support and audit the implementation of these plans.
To ensure service users and carers are fully engaged in the development and delivery of mental health services.
To ensure delivery of safe and leading-edge clinical practice that reduces risk for service users, carers and staff, and improves people’s experience of the service and leads to better mental and physical health outcomes.
To work closely with the Assistant Integrated Care Director and relevant others to create update and maintain systems to comply with reporting requirements.
To ensure that trends in need, service use and unmet needs are collated and conveyed to the relevant parties and to work with the service to develop strategies to meet address any unmet need.
To chair both clinical and managerial meetings providing clinical/practice and managerial expertise into these meetings.
To develop and maintain effective partnerships between the service staff, local authority teams and partner agencies.
To undertake some clinical/practice duties, such as chairing the zoning meeting
To manage the service budget for the team including both pay and non-pay. This will include supporting senior management with the development of cost improvement plans and the identification cost pressures and ensuring that services are delivered within budget.