Are you an aspiring or currently an Operational Lead looking for a new opportunity to work in an organisation that will help you develop and achieve your goals to become the best you can be? If so, you're in luck.

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity to join our Liaison team in East Staffordshire, based at Queens Hospital in Burton. We are an award-winning team and when you come to work with us, we will help you reach your full potential. Not only that, we will actively seek opportunities to share the great things you are doing, with others locally, regionally, and nationally.

As an aspiring or current Operational Lead from the NHS or private sector, you'll join a team that works in close partnership with Staffordshire Police and Mental Health Services and local authorities, and you'll join a Trust that puts people at the heart of what we do.

Your career with us will be enjoyable and rewarding as you develop specialist skills and make a real difference for some of the most vulnerable people in society.

It's a career that you can take pride in and enjoy, and together we can make life better for our communities.

Main duties of the job

• Carrying out the day to day responsibility for the operational management and delivery of services within the multidisciplinary team and ensuring that a high quality of service is delivered within this clinical area.
  
  Responsible for the management of staff within the team, leadership, the delivery and delegation of management supervision and ensuring appropriate clinical / professional supervision takes place as per Trust policy and procedure.
  
  Will provide training and education to the Acute Trust Staff working within the footprint of QHB, on matters relating to mental health and illness, alongside Clinical / Quality lead colleagues.
  
  While this post is not primarily a clinical / practitioner post, the post holder will still be expected to undertake direct clinical work, depending on the needs of the locality and capacity of the service. In their clinical practice, the post holder will be expected to work to the requirements of the Practitioner post appropriate to their profession.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:

Supporting your career development and progression.

Excellent NHS Pension scheme

Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave

Options for flexible working

Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.

Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources

If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.

Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate

Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates

Salary sacrifice bikes up to �2k

Free car parking at all trust sites

Free flu vaccination every year

Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to �250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

We reserve the right to close the vacancy early depending on the volume of applications we receive.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Previous Applicants Need Not Apply

Check out the videos below showcasing why you should grow your career here with us at MPFT:

Why Work for Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube

Development and Progression Within Mental Health Services at MPFT - YouTube

Liaison Psychiatry (East) is one of two teams in South Staffordshire, providing comprehensive mental health input into the general hospitals, across all wards and the Emergency Departments (ED).

Liaison Psychiatry (East) is based at Queens Hospital, Burton-upon-Trent, also covering its community hospitals in Lichfield and Tamworth, part of University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust (UHDB). The team has been gradually increasing in size and provision, and now provides an all-age service 8am 10pm, 7 days a week, all year round, with funding for further expansion.

We are looking to recruit a skilled, dynamic and motivated individual, who will have day to day responsibility for the operational leadership of this multidisciplinary team. You will work alongside the collective leadership to ensure that a high quality of service is delivered within this clinical area, and that the team feel well led.

You will offer experienced, visible leadership, form effective working relationships with colleagues and professional leads both internal and external to the team, and act as an excellent role model. The successful candidate will have a clear role in reviewing and maintaining operational standards, performance and management aspects, and continue the drive forward towards a Core24 provision. Experience of Liaison Psychiatry and an understanding of the wider influences on the service would be desirable.

In return, you will have the opportunity to be an important part of developing this service further, shaping the experience of those with mental health needs in the general hospital and leading a team of dedicated clinicians and support staff. The service is a supportive environment which promotes personal and professional development, and the post holder will receive regular support, supervision, and appraisal.

If the sound of this post interests you, and you are a positive, experienced and confident leader, we would welcome your application. For informal discussions or visits to the team, please email or MS TeamsShelley Evans (Service Lead for Mental Health Urgent Care Services, South Staffordshire) shelley.evans@mpft.nhs.uk

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• First level professional nursing /AHP/Social Work qualification.
• Post-registration experience and/or evidence of formal courses and training at post graduate diploma level
• Evidence of clinical expertise in Mental Health Nursing (level 3 degree equivalent or above)

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in performance management
• Experience of effectively initiating, developing, implementing and evaluating operational processes.
• Significant demonstrable post qualification experience at senior level needs to be at senior level working in a mental health / specialist inpatient setting.

Desirable

• Experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience of working in a Liaison Psychiatry Team

Employer details

Employer name

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queens Hospital

Burton

DE13 0RB

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301-JC-24-6660294