This is an exciting opportunity to lead one of our Community Teams as Band 7 Community Mental Health Team Leader. This is a great time to join one of our passionate and forward thinking teams, develop skills, and enhance your overall career pathway during our community transformation. The Trust has a strong commitment to developing and supporting staff through their career with a range of opportunities to progress our leaders.

The post requires a team leader who is forward thinking, innovative, assertive, thrives under pressure, compassionate and can bring their experience and expertise to manage the Community Team and ensure that the day to day running and management of the service is streamline. You will be expected to work closely with the services within the Acute and Urgent Care Service Line, the Community Service Line, the Local Authority and CCGs in a collaborative and professional manner. In return, the Trust will ensure that you are supported to develop further and if you wish to achieve further promotion within the organization this is something that we are keen to develop and nurture.

If you are a qualified professional from any of the above disciplines or an allied professional, and then we would like to hear from you if you believe that you have the skills or have the ability to develop into this exciting role.

Assessment Day Scheduled: 19th Oct 2023

Main duties of the job

As the Team Leader you will be leading a community patient led service and work with adults 18-65 years who have mental health issues, social needs and require support with their physical health needs.

You will co-ordinate mental health referrals and lead with day to day problem solving and navigation, both within the service and at the interface with other trust services and external organisations. You will be working alongside the Clinical Manager and ACP to support staff well being, enhance and develop skills and knowledge through training and supervision to provide a team approach to excellent quality care.

You will be responsible for the monitoring and supervising of clinicians' caseloads using various IT systems, and you will work closely with the service's Senior Management Team to ensure the services delivered are of high quality and meet nationally agreed targets and local KPIs. We are currently going through our Community Transformation so during this exciting time you will have the opportunity to develop and enhance your team to meet the long term plan.

Our community multidisciplinary teams, comprise of nurses from Nursing Associates to Advanced Nurse Practitioners, occupational therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, employment specialists, mental health practitioners, recovery support workers and peer support workers.

About us

As a Team Leader working in the community you will promote and deliver evidence-based care for patients with mental health conditions in their own homes and within a variety of accommodation settings.

Community roles vary and the specifics of the community setting in which you will work are covered during induction and will be explained by your line manager and colleagues

To provide effective day-to-day management of CMHT Mental Health Team in accordance with the Operational Policy.

To ensure the day to day management of the team to achieve performance standards of the team are adhered to and regular performance information is provided.

The Team Manager has an internal role in terms of co-ordinating the functioning of the team and external role in terms of contacts with users and carers, other agencies, and representing the team externally.

To manage and develop a responsive community mental health and social care service to meet the needs of the local population. To deputize for the clinical lead/manager in his/her absence

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:

The aim is to support all Band 7s whether you have no community experience or are a Band 6 nurse with community experience and ready for a Band 7 leadership position and want to join our Trust or want to develop further within a different team or Borough. We aim to continue to develop your skills and knowledge as part of our staff development and career progression.

Job description

Job responsibilities

As a Team Leader working in the community you will promote and deliver evidence-based care for patients with mental health conditions in their own homes and within a variety of accommodation settings.

Community roles vary and the specifics of the community setting in which you will work are covered during induction and will be explained by your line manager and colleagues

To provide effective day-to-day management of CMHT Mental Health Team in accordance with the Operational Policy.

To ensure the day to day management of the team to achieve performance standards of the team are adhered to and regular performance information is provided.

The Team Manager has an internal role in terms of co-ordinating the functioning of the team and external role in terms of contacts with users and carers, other agencies, and representing the team externally.

To provide effective professional supervision to some qualified members of the team and management supervision to other members of the team.

To manage and develop a responsive community mental health and social care service to meet the needs of the local population. To deputise for the clinical lead/manager in his/her absence

Person Specification

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• oEducated to degree level in a health or social care discipline
• oEvidence of continuing professional and personal development

Desirable

• oProfessional management qualification at diploma level or above
• oProject Management qualification e.g. PRINCE2 foundation level

EXPERIENCE

Essential

• oDemonstrable experience of working in a health or social care management role
• oExperience of working with people who experience serious ongoing mental health problems
• oExperience of working in a mental health setting
• oExperience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• oExperience of managing and supervising staff
• oExperience of contributing to policy and procedure development and implementation
• oExperience of managing and monitoring budgets

Desirable

• oProject or change management experience

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

Essential

• oSpecialist knowledge of effective models of mental health and social care provision
• oKnowledge of Safeguarding issues and child protection requirements/legislation and how these apply to the role
• oKnowledge of counseling skills, group skills, cognitive skills, and behavioural skills
• oKnowledge of legislation related to nursing, social workers and other professions
• oKnowledge of recent initiatives in nursing
• oKnowledge of psychosocial interventions
• oKnowledge of our business and how it supports patient care
• oClear understanding of the Mental Health Act, and National Policy
• oPolicy design, development and implementation skills which impacts across own professional discipline

Desirable

• oAudit and Research skills
• oGroup facilitation skills

Employer details

Employer name

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

Various Locations

London

SW17 0YF

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