YPHTT Clinical Lead

An exciting opportunity is available for new position for those who are eager to develop their career and gain valuable experience in the Young People's Home Treatment Team as a Clinical Nursing Lead within the Brookside Acute Services. The post holder will be an NMC registered nurse who provides clinical leadership to Young Peoples Home Treatment Team (YPHTT) by ensuring the appropriate assessment, management and discharge of all referrals to the team, overseeing the work of the clinical team alongside MDT. The post holder will ensure all clinical work in the service is carried out to the highest care standards and according to national clinical guidance and evidence-based practice; thereby being professionally and legally accountable. The post holder will be required to cover the core service hours of 8am-8pm, Monday to Friday with an additional expectation to work out of hours, 9am-5pm at weekends to ensure timely, out of hours assessments and clinical leadership across the acute
children and young peoples services including Brookside inpatient and Psychiatric Liaison Team., To provide a comprehensive Young Peoples Home Treatment team, ensuring safe a effective delivery of service and performing to required KPIs, particularly in assisting young people to develop plans of care and make difficult decisions in cases where young people are exhibiting complex psychosocial needs and/or challenging behaviors. To be responsible for the development and implementation of high standards of clinical care ensuring the service provided is needs-led, compliant with national guidance and is viewed positively by service users. To be responsible for undertaking comprehensive clinical assessments of service users, including risk assessment, risk management planning, formulation and ongoing care planning, signposting or onward referral. To ensure that staff members are undertaking the same doing so through formal and informal supervision, appraisal and regular clinical discussion. To lead on and facilitate regular clinical reviews with the team for those Children on a
designated clinical pathway. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day-today allocation of work. To delegate clinical and other tasks appropriately to team members. To deputise at request of or when required in the Managers absence. To teach other nursing and non-nursing staff, both in formal and informal settings. Teaching will also be provided to pre-registration students.

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.