Job summary
- Main area
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years (Opportunity for secondment)
- Hours
- Part time - 2 sessions per week
- Job ref
- 334-COR-6222902-JA
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Old Lewisham Town Hall
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £93,666- £126,281 per annum pro rata
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
SLP Community Forensic Clinical Pathway Lead
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
Please note these positions are advertised as an opportunity for either a Medical Grade or an Agenda for Change Grade (Band 8B) to encompass the prospect of applications from differing professional backgrounds and has therefore been advertised in both Medical and AfC TRAC systems
Over the past three years, strong clinical leadership has ensured the clinical pathways within the Forensic programme have successfully been embedded with many positive outcomes for patients and partnership working.
We are seeking for a dynamic, self-motivated and passionate person with experience of working in community forensic services to lead the Community Forensic Pathway. The post holder will bring together clinicians and service leads to develop and maintain high quality and accessible services for service users. The post holder will be an excellent communicator and able to build effective internal and external networks to help deliver our collective ambitions and aims for Forensic services across South London. This role will suit an individual who has the drive and enthusiasm to support change and developing new frameworks for partnership working in a complex, dynamic environment. The post holder will also be the strategic lead for the Support Plus community service which is operationally and clinically led in each Trust.
This is an exciting time for the Community Pathway, with a renewed focus on service developments that strengthen the existing provision.
Main duties of the job
As the Community Forensic Clinical Pathway Lead, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic team supporting the continued development of partnership working and service change across community forensic services within the SLP Forensic Provider Collaborative.
The post holder will support the strategic and operational development as well as consistent and accessible service pathways ensuring that these support and maintain achievement of excellent clinical and quality outcomes for service users in South London.
The post holder will report to the SLP Clinical Director, Forensics as well as working with other pathway leads on overlapping objectives and to ensure that work across the programme is aligned. The role offers an interesting opportunity to develop approaches and skills of working in both a provider and commissioner role.
We are keen to have representation from different Trusts and a wide range of professional disciplines in the leadership team and to support any professional developmental needs that you may have.
Working for our organisation
South London Mental Health and Community Partnership
The South London Mental Health and Community Partnership (SLP) is a collaboration between Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, (Oxleas) South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, (SLaM), and South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) between them delivering mental health services to a population of more than three million people. The partnership brings together clinical expertise, experience, and innovation, aiming to improve quality, use resources most effectively, and deliver best practice consistently to all patients.
Forensic Community Pathway
The Community Forensic Pathway has an Operational Policy that focusses on a shared philosophy and equity of offer. The pathway aims to strengthen the functioning of each team through collaborative working, shared learning and joined up improvements and innovations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key aspects of the roles which will include but are not limited to:-
To co-ordinate and chair monthly Community workstream meetings to discuss areas of standardisation across the SLP community teams, quality improvements and innovations, requests for case transfers between SLP community forensic teams, serious incidents and learning from incidents.
To sustain working relationships across SLP services.
To contribute to the oversight of SLP’s community forensic services, including:
- Supporting new initiatives with a partnership focus
- Ensuring the Operational Policy is kept up to date.
- Contributing to and sometimes leading the development of new business cases
- Evaluating service developments developed as part of the pathway.
- Considering workforce needs and patient-focussed developments.
To understand areas of commonality in the pathway and areas of local variance (e.g. commissioning arrangements) and use this information to inform service developments.
To align the pathway with the NHS Long-Term Plan and ambitions of the SLP-PC.
To keep up to date with new and updated policies and practices affecting community forensic services.
To have oversight of the community clinical database (“patient tracker”):
Maintain up to date knowledge of the SLP community forensic population to assist with service development planning
Ensuring regular updates are provided by teams.
Working with the SLP data lead to conduct analyses that help monitor and develop the service.
To be the strategic lead for the Support Plus community service which is operationally and clinically led in each Trust: chairing monthly Strategy meetings, ensuring teams collect and submit outcomes data as well as patient & stakeholder feedback, ensuring fidelity to the model of care (including supporting contracts with third sector providers, implementing peer based approaches and ensuring the service advances equalities), work with seniors in each Trust to ensure best use of resources, monitor quality, present findings, lead evaluations of the service and be available for local services to consult about complex issues.
To input into local teams’ reviews of staffing and delivery of care as required using knowledge from across the SLP.
To support the interface with SLP teams, including the other SLP workstreams, the Pathways and Transitions Team, Support Plus and the Forensic Intellectual and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Team.
To support the interface with general community services.
To liaise with other Clinical Leads and the SLP’s Clinical and Service directors.
To attend relevant SLP-wide service development meetings.
To support problem-solving around complex cases, including providing opportunities for clinicians to discuss complex community patient issues outside of the pathway meetings.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full registration with the General Medical Council with a licence to practice
- Evidence of specialist training or Proven ability in teaching and formal training in professional/clinical supervision or Professional management qualification or equivalent level of substantial experience/training in leading services and successfully managing or contributing to major change programmes; or Leadership training and experience of leading services and complex development programmes
Experience
Essential criteria
- Senior Clinical or Operational experience working in Community Forensic Services
- Experience working with or coordinating support for Forensic patients in crisis.
- Leading or supporting service development initiatives
Desirable criteria
- Service design and implementation
Knowledge / Skills
Essential criteria
- Understanding of working with a range of stakeholders in coordinating support for forensic patients in crisis.
- Understanding of clinical pathways in forensic community, particularly within South London
- Understanding of delivering clinical outcomes
- Understanding of key performance indicators and their relationship to service delivery and quality
- Understanding of the role service users and their families/carers in development and running of services
- Ability to lead and deliver change programmes/service improvement
- Able to use mandated and personal authority in role
- Ability to facilitate and influence
- Ability to maintain a focus on and drive quality improvements
- Ability to facilitate constructive challenge within and across organisations
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the role of and approaches to commissioning services
- Understanding and experience of utilising service and quality improvement methodology
- Understanding of multiagency working
- Ability to hold services to account
- Ability to use data to maintain / improve quality including oversight of databases
- Ability to work and communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues in different organizational tiers
- Leadership skills including the ability to energise, shape and direct teams
- Willingness to promote the development of services outside of your host Trust, and to support the development of roles outside your own profession
- Managing tensions and conflicts
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Mari Harty
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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