Job summary
Employer heading
Community Team Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Job overview
The Community Treatment and Intervention Team is at the heart of a dedicated collaboration delivering mental health transformation across the Hartlepool area. The successful applicant will work as part of a leadership structure to lead and manage a multi disciplinary team to deliver high quality patient focused care.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering excellent mental health services and can support and enable the team to continue to achieve their potential. Key responsibilities will include supervision and appraisal for the team, performance, recruitment and management of staff, ensuring that people have timely access to our services and receive treatment in line with our pathways. You will need to have excellent relationship building and engagement skills and be capable of managing varied work demands based on the changing needs of the service.
Working for our organisation
The Trust as a whole advocate collective leadership, and the post holder will be operationally supporting a multi-disciplinary team that shares these principles of collective leadership.
Your Leadership team includes an Advance Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Psychologist and Consultant Psychiatrists.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As Team Manager this post will have Leadership and Management responsibility of the Hartlepool Community Mental Health Treatment and Intervention Team
This post requires a current professional registration with an appropriate
body in healthcare or social work or relevant professional clinical qualification (i.e. PWP/CWP in IAPT/Getting Help services )
Person specification
Qualifications/Experience
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration with appropriate body in healthcare or social work or relevant professional clinical qualification (ie PWP/CWP in IAPT/Getting Help services)
- Be Educated to Master’s level in leadership or a subject area relevant to the area of practice OR
- Have equivalent clinical experience to that of masters level such as working as a band 6 (or above) in relevant clinical area with significant experience – which also includes significant experience of managing people (see below under experience), together with evidence of CPD
- Be trained in Clinical Supervision and Providing Clinical Supervision
- Be a Recognised Practice Assessor/Practice Supervisor
- Significant experience of managing people
- Significant experience of working with patients with complex needs in the specialist field
- Significant experience working with patients who display risk behaviours
- Working collaboratively with others (external partners, staff service users and their families/carers)
- Evidence of delivering supervision
- Working knowledge of the legal framework and statutory obligations under the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and other relevant legislation
- Detailed understanding of Safeguarding and its application in practice
- Risk assessment and management and its application in practice
- Working knowledge of clinical medicines management
- Developing, maintaining and auditing standards of practice
- Evidence of training in Quality Improvement methodology or coaching, and/or using
- Inter-agency and partnership working
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of psychological models of care and treatment (depending on specialist area)
- Knowledge of current issues relating to health needs of patients in the field of practice, regionally and nationally
- Research methodology
- The Trust’s Quality Improvement system (QIS) – or completion of training within agreed timescale
- Governance and its application in practice
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Donna Owens
- Job title
- Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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