Practice LeadinPlymouthinPlymouthPUBLISHED TUE 11 MAR 2025

37.5 hours per week

Innovation and creativity are central to the transformation of Livewell's Community Mental Health Services through the continued implementation of the Community Mental Health Framework Model. We are working collaboratively with Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Organisations (VCSE), integrating new roles such as Peer Support Workers, Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners and Clinical Assosciate Psychologists into the teams and adopting new ways of working in order to provide outstanding specialist mental health assessment and evidenced based intervention for people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties and complex emotional needs.

The Practice Lead will join an established Multi-Disciplinary Team at an exciting time. The team benefits from a strong Senior Leadership structure with dedicated Team Management, Psychology, Medical, NMP and Business Management support who work closely together to provide high quality trauma informed care, achieve the services key performance indicators, create a positive learning environment for all and maintain a culture of psychological safety.

This is a varied role as Practice Lead, you will also have the opportunity to provide specialist clinical input, as well as offering supervision and consultation to others. You will also represent the team at a variety of clinical and operational and service development meetings and forums, and have the opportunity to participate in, and lead on aspects of service development. Some experience of service and project management, (or willingness to develop these skills), is desirable.

All Livewell Southwest staff are expected to able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

As an operational manager the post holder will be required to participate in the community operational managers on-call rota if requested to do so by the Chief Operating Officer.

This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, please refer to the Direct Gov website for more information with regards to eligibility.

Please note that LW may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.

All Livewell staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

About us

Dimensions and Context of Role

The Community Mental Health Service is made up of specialist mental health professionals who proactively provide clinic, community based and home based interventions and therapies and recovery orientated support. The role of B7 Practice Lead has been developed as part of the evolving provision of the Community Mental Health Framework and the Personlised Care Framework.

The Practice Lead role is designed to complement the Clinical Team manager role and contributes to the Senior Leadership Teams decision making forums across the Core Community Services to enhance the quality of service provision in all domains. The role has a particular focus on team/staff development in relation to outcomes for patients. The post holder will be expected to regularly contribute to the MDT.

The Practice Lead is responsible for:

Supporting the team to meet CQC standards, using the KLOE guidance to collate evidence and lead on the development and implementation of action plans to both maintain and improve standards of care.

Supporting the Community Mental Health Service to achieve their performance targets. The Practice Lead will be able to analyse and interpret data to ensure early identification of any potential performance issues and develop action plans to address these.

Contributing to the Senior Leadership Meetings promoting positive inter-disciplinary relationships and supporting the culture of psychological safety and positive continuous learning/development opportunities within the team

Ensuring that clinicians work within Livewell Southwest policies, and ensure that practice standards are high and the team adhere to professional registration requirements.

Providing clinical leadership and advice to staff ensuring the flow of service users through the system and promoting implementation of evidence based practice in line with NICE guidelines. This will involve both direct and indirect clinical work with staff and service users, including consultation, coaching, live supervision and caseload supervision. The post holder will manage a reduced complex clinical caseload.

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