About this role
Job summary
Are you an experienced Nurse in Charge or Senior Practitioner looking to step into a pivotal leadership role within the community?
We are seeking an ambitious professional to become our Clinical Team Leader during a landmark period of transformation for mental health services. While this role is ideal for those with a community background, we also welcome applications from senior inpatient nurses ready for a new challenge.
Andover CMHT has recently relocated to the Andover Health Hub in the Chantry Centre, which is a major step forward for local service delivery. By co-locating with the Older Persons Mental Health Team and Primary Care services, we are able to provide the Andover community with a "one-stop" hub for their healthcare needs.
As our Clinical Team Leader, you will move into a role of genuine influence
- Drive Clinical Excellence: Provide leadership to the daily operations of an integrated team, ensuring safe and effective care delivery.
- Manage Complexity: Carry a specialist caseload and provide expert "joint-working" support for care coordinators on complex cases.
- Shape the Future: Directly contribute to the transformation and improvement of local mental health pathways.
In return, we are invested in your growth, offering management training, protected time for your learning and development, as well as and regular clinical supervision to ensure you thrive as a leader.
- If you're ready to take your clinical experience to the next level, we want to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for the day to day management of the clinical service working closely with the CMHT Manager.
- To supervise and manage the daily workload in such a way to maximise efficiency ensuring that duties are discharged safely and effectively.
- This includes the processing evaluation and allocation of referrals as appropriate to the teams function and an efficient caseload management system.
- To be available to practitioners for advice guidance and support in the discharge of their duties ensuring the team works within the care planning policy and risk policy.
- To ensure that care planning reflects agreed clinical care pathways currently under development.
- To line manage an identified group of practitioners including supervision appraisal and development.
- To undertake investigations in line with the relevant organisational policy eg complaints CIRs HR investigations.
- To identify and address poor performance in line with organisational policy.
- To alert the CMHT Manager in a timely manner to any concerns about the teams effectiveness or that of any of its members.
- To lead inter agency processes on behalf of the CMHT Manager in complex and or high risk cases such as safeguarding case conferences etc.
- To be involved in recruitment and selection.
- To act as an authorised signatory for invoices salary claims and employment changes.
- To work within agreed budgets NHS & LA.
- To deputise for the CMHT Manager as required and lead on agreed areas of work for the team.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Essential
- Relevant professional qualification. Mental Health Nurse with appropriate registration with NMC. Experience of care coordination and the role and function of a Community Mental Health Team. Evidence of other development and or training which indicates a commitment to continuous development and preparation for management.
Desirable
- See JD
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience in the effective and positive management of complex and high risk cases. Ability to demonstrate a commitment to multi disciplinary team working. To demonstrate a flexible adaptable attitude particularly with regard to being able to meet complex and disparate client needs flexibly while maintaining appropriate standards and boundaries. Requires an understanding of Health and Safety issues and a willingness to undertake training where appropriate. Ensure the Health and Safety policies of the parent agencies are implemented. Knowledge of financial and care management IT systems. Able to use IT systems in the Social or Health Care Professions. Flexible in deployment and work bases. Able to cope with the demands of this post in this working environment
Desirable
- Able to illustrate examples of service development initiated by the candidate
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Provide effective leadership and management to staff which promotes high performance standards both individually and as a team in the achievement of the Trusts objectives and priorities. The Trusts success will be dependent on all managers playing an active role to make sure the existing areas of good employment practice are universally embedded within the organisation. Managers will be expected to understand the Trusts key priorities and those for your Directorate or Service. Promote an effective team ethos. Complete Annual Appraisals for all your staff which reflect these priorities. Ensure staff have access to appropriate training and development and Communicate regularly through meetings with teams and individuals. Provide opportunity for two way feedback value and treat your team equally. Manage environmental social and financial resources in a way that is consistent with the Trusts Sustainable Development Strategy.
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.
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
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Andover Health Hub
The Chantry Centre, Chantry Street
Andover
Hampshire
SP10 1RL
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)