EMHIP Key Intervention 3 Project Lead

Job overview

• Are you interested in improving the health access experience and outcomes for patients and reducing race disparities in our service?
• Are you interested in exploring workforce attitudes on the use of coercive measures in acute mental health services?
• Would you like to combine your leadership and management skills to lead quality improvement methodology in a progressive acute environment?

If the answer is ‘yes’, we would like you to come and join us in this exciting unique programme.

The Ethnicity, Mental Health Improvement Programme (EMHIP) is a three-year innovative locality-based service improvement programme consisting of five key interventions to reduce ethnic inequalities in access, experience and outcomes of mental health care in South West London.

It is a collaborative partnership, South West London ICS, South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust and Wandsworth Community Empowerment Network (WCEN) and local BME communities.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead and manage the implementation for a one-year pilot project, key intervention 3 of EMHIP which aims to reduce the use of coercive and restrictive practices in adult, acute inpatient wards at SWLSTG, and support the scaling up across all inpatient acute wards to deliver the desired outcomes:

• Reduction in coercion
• More consensual care
• Improved therapeutic engagement and therapeutic alliance between service users and staff.
• Service user ownership of decisions concerning their care and treatment.
• Better treatment adherence
• Improved family involvement in care and treatment
• More accountable and transparent clinical decision-making.

You will be responsible to contributing to the development of a detailed bespoke programme liaising with staff, to promote new ways of working that support a positive and proactive approach to care that helps to reduce the need for coercive and restrictive practice, through the implementation of a Framework for Shared decision making.

The post holder will be responsible for developing a programme to recruit Mental Health Mediators (MHM), and be responsible for ensuring support, supervision, and facilitation of reflective practice. You will work closely with the WCEN Lived Experience Assessment Panel (LEAP).

The post-holder will need to develop strong relationships with other practitioners and work in partnership with patients, carers to ensure effectiveness of outcomes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Management Responsibilities:

• Manage the implementation of Key Intervention 3 (reducing coercion) of EMHIP in the acute care wards at SWLSTG.
• The post holder will be required to work collaboratively with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Participate in relevant internal and external working groups, meetings, services, and initiatives.
• Manage the project initiation programme.
• Provide leadership for the programme and ensure engagement and involvement of all staff working in the inpatient wards in implementing a programme of change.
• Responsible for rolling out the programme across all inpatient wards at SWLSTG including the pilot implementation.
• Develop, lead and be responsible for the programme of recruiting Mental Health Mediators, their induction and ongoing support, supervision, and management.
• Develop and implement a framework for involving service users from acute inpatient wards in Key intervention 3.
• Work closely with the Lived Experience Assessment Panel (LEAP) to develop and implement the programme.
• Develop and implement high level communication strategies internally, in line with the programme of work.
• Provide guidance for the Trust’s other programmes on reducing coercion and use of force in inpatient wards.
• Responsible for and Line Manager for the Band 6 (KI 3 EMHIP) post.

Facilitation, Mentorship and Quality Improvement:

• Support and collaborate with arrangements in relation to the implementation of the Mental Health Unit (Use of Force) Act 2018 (Seni’s Law) at SWLSTG
• To liaise with other Managers and staff to share and embed best practice.

Project and Information Management:

• Responsible for setting up and managing the KI3 information system and regular reporting.
• Provide regular reporting on the progress of the programme and monitoring implementation.
• Contribute to the evaluation of EMHIP KI 3.
• Ensure timely and accurate information analysis and reporting.

Staff Management:

• Responsible for managing and undertaking appraisal and personal development of Band 6 EMHIP postholder.

Training and Development:

• Maintain personal clinical competence through regular direct clinical involvement and delivery of clinical care.
• To undertake mandatory and statutory training as required by Trust policy.
• To contribute and commit to undertaking an annual Development Review/appraisal.
• To undertake personal development as identified in the Personal Development Plan (PDP).