About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Team Leader for Harrow Community Mental Health Hub. We are looking for an experienced Mental Health Nurse/Occupational Therapist/Social Worker to join our dynamic team. The post holder will work with adults in the community with mental health needs and support the team with the day to day running of a busy mental health service.
The role is suitable for a qualified clinician with experience working in the community and for someone seeking to develop their leadership and management skills.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as a Team Leader in the Hub with duties including:
To coordinate referrals and transfers of care Be responsible for the supervision of staff & their case load. Manage a small caseload Support coordination of duty Develop and maintain close professional relationships with different teams within Bentley House Work closely with the consultants, managers and admin, with particular focus on the allocated PCN/INT Ensure staff practice in a safe, appropriate and professional way with service users and their carers. Attend professional practice forums Chair clinical and team meetings as appropriate Represent the CMHH at various meetings Provide senior support to the Team Manager To assist the team to be compliant with KPI and monitor electronic records
About us
The successful applicant will have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Commitment from the team todevelop youby offering in-house development sessions Free access to our Staff and Wellbeing serviceto ensure that you are always looking after yourself Commitment tocareer mappingto ensure continuous professional development including opportunities within the Trust On and off-site shadowing opportunities, including HTT, Psych Liaison and many more Localnursing, social work or OT forumsrun by one of the senior leads An opportunity to work with afriendly, dynamic, passionate and diverse teamwho are committed to looking after each other as well as their patients
Job description Job responsibilities
Please review the attached Job description for more information about the role.
1. To be accountable for assessment and care planning of a defined caseload of adults of working age presenting with high risk and high complexity. To assess for health and social care needs and negotiate care plans with service users and their carers, remaining objective when working with diagnostic uncertainty.
2. To prioritise time and workload, in a flexibly manner to meet community caseload responsibilities, participate in meetings and effectively develop personal skills knowledge and experience through supervision and training.
3. To undertake risk assessments, according to Trust policy.
4. To ensure delivery of care plans in partnership with multi-disciplinary colleagues and a range of health and social care agencies.
5. To offer a range of evidence based psycho-social interventions and pro-active risk management approaches to help the service user and their family to reduce and manage symptoms, high risk behaviour and other disabling effects of psychosis and enable, as far as possible, full and sustained recovery.
6. To help clients gain fair and equal access to services, through choice and social inclusion and being sensitive to age, culture, ethnicity and gender, sexuality and disability.
7. To provide professional leadership and supervision to members of the Community Mental Health Hub, including management of sickness and absence, performance and conduct policies, and compliance with statutory and mandatory training.
8. To work in partnership with senior managers in the MDT, including the team managers, service managers and consultants, to support the management and development of the services within the Hub, including KPI's.
9. To develop effective working networks and partnerships with community agencies to address the holistic needs of service's users
10. To undertake activities of Continuous Professional Development including identifying own learning needs
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Relevant professional Qualification HCPC/NMC registration
Desirable
Relevant post-basic training for all Disciplines Mentorship qualification relevant to professions Management/leadership training
Experience Essential
Significant years post qualifying experience at Band 6 level Working with people with severe and enduring mental health problems in the community. Assessing health and social needs and formulating care-plans to reflect those needs. Working in a multi-cultural environment. Practical experience of providing high quality care and exceeding expectations. Experience of caseload management and throughput Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team. Experience of providing supervision
Desirable
Management experience General life skills. Evidence of continuing professional development. Budgetary management Mentoring
Skills Essential
Ability to chair regular MDT meetings with strong leadership skills Highly proactive and responsive to day to day demands of working in a busy CMHT Experience of using a range of therapeutic skills & psychosocial interventions. Ability to succinctly formulation clinical intervention including signposting to other community services.
Desirable
Leadership skills (motivating, using initiative, change management).
Knowledge/ Understanding Essential
Mental Health Act 1983, Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2015 Risk assessment and management. Experience of using a range of therapeutic skills & psychosocial interventions. Highly skilled in IT applications i.e excel, word
Desirable
Proficient in utilising Tableau to monitor team/individual performance Ability to embrace and manage change effectively & sensitively within the team and the wider organisation. Current developments in mental health care.
Other Essential
Sickness/attendance record that is acceptable to the Trust Willingness to undertake further training & professional development.
Desirable
Possession of a valid driving license Able to recognise signs of stress in self & others.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address Bentley House
15-21 Headstone Drive
Harrow
HA3 5QX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)