An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Deputy Team Co-ordinator to join our team in Louth Older CMHT. If your are a Registered Health Care Professional, with current professional registration (NMC/HCPC) we want to hear from you.

Louth OACMHT supports Older Adults with complex mental health problems over 65 years and provides specialist memory assessment and treatment for adults of all ages.

The role of the Deputy Team Co-ordinator is to support the Team Co-ordinator and provide clinical lead expertise to the MDT Team. The deputy post is an excellent opportunity for managerial development and can support successful applicants with career progression.

This opportunity is ideal for someone who wishes to take the next step in developing clinical expertise and experience within a leadership role.

This is an enhanced Band 6 post, which attracts an additional �1000 per annum pay.

For an informal visit or to discuss the role further, please contact Glenn Ward, Team Coordinator on 07775 800748 or email g.ward@nhs.net

Main duties of the job

Key duties include:-

Managing a defined caseload with a focus on working with individuals who have memory difficulties and mental health problems.

Ensuring that the clinical pathways are embedded into the team.

Support quality improvement Initiatives within OACMHT

Support the Team Co-ordinator with operational developments initiatives and deputise in the Team Co-ordinators absence.

You will be supported in your professional development and you will be offered leadership training such as Band 7 ready now, Mary Seacole Programme, and Professional Development via the leadership teams portfolio of courses. Regular clinical and management supervision will also be provided.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The duties in addition to the normal band 6 role, will also involve- ensuring that the clinical pathways are embedded into the teams and staff are adhering to them.

Support Quality Improvement initiatives within the team.

There maybe some management supervision of staff

Support the team co-ordinator with operational developments and deputise in the team co-ordinators absence.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• RMN or RNLD (NMC)
• Mentorship Module (degree level)
• ENB998/FLiPs or equivelent
• Evidence of specialised continued professional training in clinical practice.

Desirable

• Management & Leadership Training.

Experience

Essential

• Relevant experience of working with adults with complex needs or adults with mental health needs and skills that is transferable.
• Experience of working with people with cognitive impairment.
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Skills

Essential

• Sound knowledge of national agenda for mental health.
• Awareness of current pressure working with older adults in hospital environment
• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills.
• Highly developed skills in occupational therapy assessment and treatment
• Sound knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles.
• Highly developed communication skills.
• Excellent understanding of the therapeutic relationship and boundaries
• Delegation whilst maintaining overall responsibility for patients care, where appropriate.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead a clinical team.
• Highly motivated & able to engage with patients & carers to improve outcomes.
• Ability to work independently and collectively.

Special requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel independently throughout the county without the use of public transport

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Windsor House

Windsor Road

Louth

LN11 0LF

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