Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Lead - Autism
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Clinical Lead Opportunity for Registered Nurse, AHP, or Social Worker
We are offering an opportunity for a registered nurse, AHP, or social worker to join our multi-disciplinary team as a clinical lead. We want to hear from you if you are highly committed to working with adults who are seeking a diagnosis of autism.
Location
This post is based in Willis House, Merseyside within a multi-disciplinary team within the Trust based across Knowsley, St Helens, Warrington, and Halton.
Role Overview
The role will be to oversee the provision of expert, autonomous, and highly specialist clinical practice within the MDT, which supports the staff to provide the highest quality care. The post holder will exercise advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion, and decision-making in the delivery of clinical care. They will be responsible for delivering a high-quality Autism Service for service users and carers. The post holder will play a role in assuring a healthy and happy team as part of the Trust quality strategy.
Responsibilities
- Specialist assessment, advice on interventions, and guidance on complex cases/post diagnostic cases.
- Be a point of contact for carers and service users, alongside the Team Manager.
- Provide advanced clinical skills and advice demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of service users who have significant mental health needs whilst under the autism service.
- Monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through the development of care pathways and access to medical support, supervision of practice, clinical audit, and evidence-based practice, teaching, and supporting professional colleagues and the provision of skilled professional leadership.
- Work closely with the Team Manager in all aspects of their work.
- Lead on certain identified projects and particular areas of work requiring clinical leadership.
- Participate fully in their personal development and review process to achieve the knowledge and skills identified on the Job (KSF) outline for this post, prior to the relevant KSF gateway, if appropriate.
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About Mersey Care
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and is also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
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We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organizational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
- Name: Gemma Satchell
- Job Title: ASC Team Manager
- Email Address: gemma.satchell@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 0151 292 6964
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