Clinical Quality Manager

The North London Forensic Collaborative (NLFC)is a partnership of five Mental Health Trusts: Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (lead provider), East London Foundation Trust, West London NHS Trust, Central and North West London Foundation Trust, and North East London Foundation Trust. This role sits within NLFC Commissioning Hub Team,which is responsible for the quality, performance and finance of all NLFC providers and all patients who originate from North London regardless of which provider their placement is with.

As a clinical quality manager, the post holder will work as part of a dynamicCommissioning Hub team in delivering an effective quality oversight service to ensure safe and effective care pathways are in place for all service users in secured mental health care settings within NLFC footprints, and in independent sectors outside of North London

The post holder will work collaboratively with providers, be able to hold providers to account for theirservice quality provision and know when to elevate persistent or more serious quality concerns.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• To undertake routine site visits (weekly at minimum) and informal checks to provide clinical assurance of the quality of the care provided by secure services within North London
• Review restrictive interventions (long-term segregation (LTS), seclusion, etc) for all patients in line with the requirements of the Mental Health Act Code of Practice.
• Review exceptional packages of care for its appropriateness and ensure service users are not subjected to unnecessary restrictions.
• Ensure services have mechanisms in place for patient and carer involvement in their care to promote joint working.
• Work closely with peer engagement workers to collate patients experience feedback from both inpatient and community teams, and ensure that the voice of service users is central to all aspects of quality improvement and service development across the collaborative.
• To undertake 8 weekly visit to review North London patients placed outside of their Natural Clinical flow.

About us

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.Our Five-Year Strategy:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.

We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme

Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our Values:

• We Are Kind
• We Are Respectful
• We Work Together
• We Keep Things Simple
• We Empower
• We Are Proudly Diverse

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached JD, and person specification for further details or you can contact the recruiting manager details below to discuss.

Person Specification Qualifications/ Registrations

• Registered Learning Disability / Mental Health Nurse or other registered health or social care professional
• Possess a relevant additional professional qualification e.g Forensic Psychiatry Diploma, masters level, or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.

Skills/ Abilities

• High-level management skills, able to perform to high level in clinical setting, holding services to account and ensuring effective use of NHSCB resources.
• Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
• Advance knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.

Experience/ Knowledge

• Detailed knowledge of legal issues pertaining to the specialist service, including MHA 1983, after care under supervision, sex offender legislation, probation orders and life licence, Ministry of Justice procedures and child protection legislation
• Experience of working within a Secure Service Provider
• Detailed operational knowledge of secure services, including risk assessment/management
• Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum Inclu HCAS