Clinical Team Leader

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:

• Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
• Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
• Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.

For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the CYPMHS Access Team based at The Cove. The Access Team is looking to recruit a band 6 RMN/Social Worker/Occupational Therapist to complete holistic and comprehensive gatekeeping assessments for young people across the Lancashire and South Cumbria footprint.

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The successful candidate will be based at The Cove and would work across the Lancashire and South Cumbria footprint in various settings to undertake assessments of young people, including A&E, paediatric wards, police custody and home environments. You will join mental health act assessments for young people to provide gatekeeping assessments collaboratively to avoid young people experiencing repeated assessments.

The post holder will be required to undertake specialist CYPMH access (gatekeeping) mental health assessments (including clinical risk) with clinical and crisis interventions for young people presenting with acute and severe mental health episodes in critical situations.

Provide CYPMH access assessments across Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust for young people, aged 13 years to 18 years, to support the staff in the provision of planning, managing and evaluating specialised care.

To provide a specialist role in the co-ordination of care for young people and their families, who are residing in CYPMH inpatient services out of the Lancashire/South Cumbria area. Also, be aware of the national demand for CYPMH inpatient beds and reliably inform internal staff of any out of area admissions/need for specialist out of area beds.

Working for our organisation

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

You are advised to consider applying for LSCFT vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within four weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.

Please note that further communication from LSCFT will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCFT to contact them.

Please ensure that you read the person specification as your application will be measured against this document.

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