About this role
Job summary
We are recruiting a Band 7 Team Lead to lead a newly established Community Rehabilitation Team (CRT) within the Mid and North Hampshire Division.
This is an exciting opportunity to shape and lead a community-based rehabilitation service, supporting adults with complex mental health needs to achieve recovery and independence in the least restrictive environment.
You will provide clinical and operational leadership, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, recovery-focused care across multiple localities, while driving service development and integration with system partners.
The service focuses on functional recovery and independence, delivering flexible, community-based interventions across multiple localities.
As Team Leader, key elements of the role include:
Providing leadership to a multidisciplinary team delivering rehabilitation interventions Ensuring consistent delivery of care aligned to evidence-based practice and NICE guidance Overseeing service performance, including waiting times, caseloads and outcomes Supporting smooth transitions between inpatient and community services Leading collaboration across system partners to improve pathways and integration Driving quality improvement, audit and service evaluation activityMaintaining oversight of safeguarding and clinical risk within the service
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
Provide clinical and operational leadership for the Community Rehabilitation Team across Mid & North localities Lead the delivery of a NICE-compliant rehabilitation service for individuals with complex psychosis Oversee team performance, ensuring high standards of quality, safety and access Maintain a reduced but complex caseload, supporting service users with significant rehabilitation needs Coordinate multidisciplinary working, ensuring effective care planning and risk management Support the development of integrated pathways with primary care, acute services, social care and VCSE partners Lead on demand, capacity and flow, ensuring effective use of workforce and resources Oversee referral management and decision-making processes Contribute to service development, transformation and improvement programmesKey skills required:
Strong leadership and decision-making skills Ability to manage complex clinical and operational demands Excellent communication and partnership working skills Strong understanding of recovery-focused rehabilitation and complex psychosis Ability to analyse data and use performance information to drive improvement
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
Professional qualification (e.g. Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Social Work)Current professional registration
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 Parklands House
London Road
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG21 4AP
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)