Improving mental health is a priority for both the government and local health and care systems. But with rising demand, workforce shortages, funding constraints and a need to increase integration with system partners, mental health services continue to face significant delivery challenges.
Arden & GEM’s Clinical Support team comprises experienced, registered clinicians who work alongside care providers to offer additional capacity and support tailored to each directorate or organisation’s needs.
Our Mental Health Support covers:
Leadership and workforce
- Purposeful clinical leadership to facilitate a shared vision for co-produced, quality driven, population focussed, connected services at a system and place level
- Education, provision and facilitation of structured group supervision to clinical teams to enable workforce resilience, improved staff retention and clinical sustainability
- Provision of clinical support at a service line level enabling capacity within operational and clinical leaders.
Transformational change
- Senior experience of leading transformational change which is sustained and embedded including at frontline service level (community and inpatients)
- Delivery of improvements to address challenges in clinical areas, collaborating directly with clinicians to embed change.
Pathway and service improvement
- Discovery support to review and reflect on services, through to enabling capacity to deliver and embed quality improvements
- Supporting quality improvements in clinical pathways, access to services and improving patient flow
- Reviewing, aligning and improving pathways and processes e.g. section 117 – enabling critical professional challenge to enable sustained quality improvements across implementation
- A clear focus on clinician and patient/carer engagement to drive advancements in technical solutions and possibilities to improve outcomes.
Compliance and accreditation
- Improving compliance with national priorities including Core20PLUS5 and severe mental illness (SMI) physical health checks and interventions
- Increasing confidence in developing services for accreditation with the Royal College of Psychiatry.
Our team of highly skilled mental health registrants supports health and social care colleagues to successfully implement projects which improve service delivery, patient experience, and mental health outcomes.
Why Arden & GEM?
We have a lived understanding of the significance of putting quality improvement and service innovation at the heart of cultural change and sustaining good practice.
Our team brings together clinical registrant expertise with proven project and programme management experience to realise agreed deliverables and benefits.
As part of the NHS family, we share your values and are committed to supporting our mental health colleagues to move forward, working in partnership to offer the support and capacity needed.
RELEVANT READING
Find out more about our Mental Health Support services by accessing the resources below.
Converting existing nurse competency frameworks into a Digital Paediatric Skills Passport
NHS Arden & GEM’s Clinical Support team was engaged by NHS England to provide programme management and strategic leadership to digitalise paediatric critical care competency frameworks.
Developing a harmonised Section 117 aftercare policy for Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Two experienced, registered mental health nurses from Arden & GEM’s Clinical Support team led a process of stakeholder engagement and policy development to put in place a harmonised Section 117 aftercare policy across the Black Country health and care system, which underpins clinical practice and ensures service users are offered access to support which meet their needs.
Understanding the complexity and acuity of a female acute mental health ward
When Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation NHS Trust wanted to better understand the complexity and acuity of its female acute mental health ward, Arden & GEM’s Clinical Support team was tasked with undertaking a ‘discovery’ project.
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