Older Adult Clinical Lead
Posted 1 day 15 hours ago by NHS
Permanent
Not Specified
Other
London, City Of Westminster, United Kingdom, NW1 4
Job Description
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust The Westminster Older Adults and Health Ageing Community Mental Health Team is a dynamic and integrated multidisciplinary service providing mental health and social care support to older adults in Westminster with functional disorders and dementia. It is co-located with the Westminster City Council mental health team, offering a holistic approach to care. The team is also involved in the CNWL Open Dialogue project, which promotes person-centred recovery-oriented care.
The team operates using a case management and recovery-focused model, offering multidisciplinary assessments and interventions for service users with complex needs, as well as their families and carers. Regular multidisciplinary meetings facilitate case discussions, initial assessments, and reflective practice. A key feature of the service is the integrated older adults home treatment team, which delivers intensive support, crisis management, admission prevention, and helps ensure timely hospital discharges. The CMHT and HTT teams collaborate closely, offering a responsive and flexible service to meet the needs of service users. Coordination with older adults' inpatient services allows smooth transitions of care.
The service promotes a friendly, respectful work environment where staff receive professional development, including supervision and appraisals. Involvement of service users and carers is a core element of the service's design and delivery.
Main duties of the job The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The postholder will provide older adults clinical leadership as part of the management team. Additionally the role would focus on developing transformation agenda, integration and primary care pathways. The role would provide an exciting development opportunity for staff to interface across primary care and secondary care, and deliver more holistic and joined up care for older adults with multiple complex co-morbidities including frailty, functional mental health needs and/or dementia. It would also involve providing specialist advice, assessment and formulation and delivery of brief interventions for older adults with complex mental health conditions and dementia, who may be new or known previously to secondary care mental health services.
Developing clinical pathways across the mental health older adults, including clinical practice and standards, as well as supporting with organisational development and quality improvement strategies. Furthermore, the role would involve supporting workforce development, particularly community mental health nursing and allied mental health professionals ensuring that staff develop the skills and strategies required for their roles.
About us
The team operates using a case management and recovery-focused model, offering multidisciplinary assessments and interventions for service users with complex needs, as well as their families and carers. Regular multidisciplinary meetings facilitate case discussions, initial assessments, and reflective practice. A key feature of the service is the integrated older adults home treatment team, which delivers intensive support, crisis management, admission prevention, and helps ensure timely hospital discharges. The CMHT and HTT teams collaborate closely, offering a responsive and flexible service to meet the needs of service users. Coordination with older adults' inpatient services allows smooth transitions of care.
The service promotes a friendly, respectful work environment where staff receive professional development, including supervision and appraisals. Involvement of service users and carers is a core element of the service's design and delivery.
Main duties of the job The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
The postholder will provide older adults clinical leadership as part of the management team. Additionally the role would focus on developing transformation agenda, integration and primary care pathways. The role would provide an exciting development opportunity for staff to interface across primary care and secondary care, and deliver more holistic and joined up care for older adults with multiple complex co-morbidities including frailty, functional mental health needs and/or dementia. It would also involve providing specialist advice, assessment and formulation and delivery of brief interventions for older adults with complex mental health conditions and dementia, who may be new or known previously to secondary care mental health services.
Developing clinical pathways across the mental health older adults, including clinical practice and standards, as well as supporting with organisational development and quality improvement strategies. Furthermore, the role would involve supporting workforce development, particularly community mental health nursing and allied mental health professionals ensuring that staff develop the skills and strategies required for their roles.
About us
- Flexible shift working opportunities for a healthier work-life balance
- Commitment from the team to develop you by offering coaching and in-house development sessions such as, Leadership programmes, non-medical prescribing, CBT-P training and much more
- Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing service to ensure that you are always looking after yourself
- Commitment to career mapping to ensure continuous professional development including opportunities within the Trust
- Shadowing opportunities including HTT, Psych Liaison and many more
- Local Reflective Practice forums run by one of the senior leads
- An opportunity to work with a friendly, dynamic, passionate and diverse team who are committed to looking after each other as well as their patients
- Excellent staff benefits: our benefit packages are amongst the best in London and include: childcare vouchers, health and wellbeing services, season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, blue light card, discounts at Nando's and Superdrug, mobile phone contracts and much more!
- Award-winning Staff Networks
- Hidden Gem & annual award ceremonies
- To provide the clinical lead for staff within the service.
- To assist the team manager in developing a model of working with service users with complex needs, ensuring that services are provided to the highest possible standard.
- To deputise for the team manager as needed.
- Participate in and lead meetings as appropriate.
- The postholder would be expected to show demonstrable experience of working with older adults/ those with complex physical and MH needs including functional and organic illness, an ability to work flexibly and collaboratively across local environments and strong interpersonal skills.
- The postholder will be expected to have well developed clinical skills of their own in order to enable them to practice at a high standard, appropriately guide and supervise staff at all levels.
- To manage a caseload as needed, including providing access and/or deliver a broad range of psychosocial interventions for individual patients, carry out robust risk assessments and care planning.
- To provide expert advice and consultation in professional matters relating to the postholder's discipline, and to ensure that expert information and advice is available for the other disciplines in the team.
- To work within the relevant legislative frameworks (e.g. Mental Health Act (1983), Mental Capacity Act (2005), Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards, Care Act 2014 etc).
- To ensure that the team works within the relevant frameworks and policies for safeguarding vulnerable adults.
- To ensure that services within the multidisciplinary team are well co-ordinated in order they are responsive and attuned to the needs of service users, carers and families.
- To demonstrate a high level of clinical competence both in relation to supervision of staff and direct face to face contact with service users.
- To ensure that the service works in co-ordination with other Community and Acute In-Patient services.
- To ensure effective liaison with other relevant agencies.
- To maintain and develop administrative procedures regarding the recording of case records.
- To ensure that service users are involved in the development of the team and local services.
- Professional qualification Mental Health Nursing (RMN) with current NMC/HCPC registration. / Occupational Therapist/ Social Worker Attained at least Level 2 Maths and English (equivalent to GCSE grade 9-4 (A -C
- Educated to degree or Diploma level with other courses relevant to primary care mental health services e.g. CBT, Brief Solution Focused Therapy etc.
- RGN/physical health qualification. Evidence of recent and ongoing relevant further professional development. Attendance at specialist short courses relevant to the post (e.g. MBT or DBT, Trauma Informed Care, Group Approaches)
- Open Dialogue training, or willingness to undertake.
- Experience of working with older adults/ those with complex physical and MH needs including functional and organic illness.
- Experience of work in the NHS, PCNs or outreach work, experience of working in voluntary sector, working in community groups.
- Work with older adults with serious mental health problems: mental health care and/or working with carers and/or delivering therapeutic group interventions and/or working in MDTs and/or audit, evaluation or research.
- Work in multi-cultural settings.
- Mental health issues as a service user or carer.
- Evidence of experience in a Band 6 position or equivalent.
- Work with interpreters.
- Conducting service-related research and or audit experience.
- Other relevant post registration experience.
- Work with people with complex emotional needs (personality disorder).
- Experience of working in a primary care setting/ social care/ voluntary sector.
- Experience of teaching/training in a formal or informal setting.
- Work with behaviours that challenge services.
- Basic understanding of health care systems and structures: staffing, roles and responsibilities, the role of hospitals, primary care and community care.
- Team/self-management and organisation skills that enable a number of complex activities and clinical work to be undertaken, revising and adjusting these according to the needs of individual patients and the service.
- Knowledge of counselling skills/cognitive behavioural skills, psychosocial interventions.
- Knowledge of recovery approaches as used with those with mental health conditions.
- Work with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
- Contain and work with organisational stress and able to hold the stress of others.
- Respectful and collaborative approach to service users, families, carers, colleagues and other professionals.
- Able to negotiate and ability to handle confrontation effectively and professionally.
- Ability to engage challenging and/or acutely distressed patients in potentially hostile and/or antagonistic situations and use de-escalation techniques effectively.
- Assessment and treatment of Deliberate Self Harm.
- Risk assessment/management and crisis intervention skills.
- Use of psychosocial assessment methods.
- Higher level communication skills, both written and oral. . click apply for full job details