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Team Manager - Eating Disorders
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9-5 Monday to Friday)
Job ref
310-MASMH-6000184-B
Employer
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
S3 Community Eating Disorder Service Cambridge and Peterborough
Town
Cambridge
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 per annum, pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/08/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust logo

Team Manager

Band 7

Job overview

Are you passionate about nurse leadership?

Are you looking for an exciting managerial role ?

Do you want to be influential in leading and developing an eating disorder service?

Then you may be the person we are looking for to be involved in shaping our services and supporting our staff as team manager .

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the operational management of the Cambridge Adult Eating Disorders Team. This will include effective clinical leadership, management of human and budgetary resources, ensuring evidence-based practice within the community setting, as well as evident ability to co- ordinate varying tasks in care delivery and manage unplanned challenges.

You will work with the Service Manager in implementing service development and delivering the Trusts strategic objectives.  You will support the evolving team by ensuring the operational policies are adjusted and aligned to service transformation, and that innovative practice is robustly implemented, and you will be expected to maintain a visible, professional presence providing staff with assistance, advice and support.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

 

  1. Be responsible for the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluation of all patient care using CPA framework and leading staff to provide the highest standards of care.
  2. Take a lead role in ensuring nursing input to multi-disciplinary meetings.
  3. Ensure the reports provided by the clinical staff to support specialist placements for those with complex needs and for Mental Health Act tribunals and managers hearings are of a high standard and provide the necessary information in a timely way.
  4. Provide specialist consultation and advice to the nursing team, multi-disciplinary team, clients and their families, user groups, statutory and non-statutory agencies.
  5. Adopt an appropriate style with staff for achieving group objectives monitoring and evaluation workloads.  Providing vision and inspiration through effective clinical leadership to ensure that the skills and competencies of staff are actively developed.
  6. Be conversant and proactive with Government legislation pertaining to the Mental Health Act, CPA, National Service Framework, Clinical Governance and NHS Plan.
  7. Encourage, promote and maintain effective communication with the Community Mental Health Teams to promote continuity of clinical care.
  8. Work with the senior leadership team to ensure provision of therapeutic activities, ensuring a range of interventions are available for clients on a daily basis.
  9. To liaise with other disciplines involved in the provision of therapeutic interventions on a regular basis to ensure seamless care for clients.
  10. Ensure patient care is delivered within the least restrictive environment

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria
  • • Registered Nurse/occupational Therapist/Clinical Psychologist/Social work qualification.
  • • NMC or HCPC registered.
Desirable criteria
  • • Evidence of continued personal and professional development.
  • • Teaching/coaching experience.
  • • Leadership training
  • • Mental health related MSc

Knowledge and understanding

Essential criteria
  • • Working knowledge of the Mental Health Act
  • • Knowledge and understanding of managing teams to ensure service objectives and outcomes are achieved.
  • • Knowledge and understanding of Health & Safety regulations.
  • • Knowledge of care management and the care programme approach.
  • • Knowledge and understanding of key issues in clinical practice in mental health
  • • Experience of leadership and managing teams.
  • • Advanced understanding of the mental health needs of adults,
  • • Good knowledge of the policies and guidelines pertinent to the planning and delivery of care to adults with mental health needs

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Management experience
  • • Experience in leadership role
  • • Experience of developing and providing teaching programmes
  • • Experience & Evidence of recruiting and managing and training staff
  • • Experience of developing user and carer involvement strategies In the recovery process
  • • Experience of effective collaborative working.
  • • Evidence of experience in service evaluation and improvements.
  • • Demonstrated experience of working in a quality improvement project.
Desirable criteria
  • • Qualification in leadership
  • • Further training in HR
  • • Further training in team management
  • • Quality Improvement training and project management experience

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • • Ability to manage change and deal with conflict / stressful situations.
  • • Effective organisational and time management skills
  • • Ability to manage and lead team with a pragmatic approach to problem solving
  • • Evidence of interdisciplinary/multi-agency working experience
Desirable criteria
  • • Ability to develop and lead new initiatives within the clinical care environment.
  • • Ability to represent the nursing function within the management structure

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - BronzeImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.We offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.NHS Rainbow badgeStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Prince's Trust - Proud to support the Prince's trust - Youth can do itArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lynn eldred
Job title
service manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01223 596201
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