Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Performance Management:

To provide effective leadership and management to the team that promotes high performance standards and enhances the achievement of the Trust’s objectives and priorities.  

• Assume overall management accountability for the team
• Assume responsibility for the day-to-day operational management of the team ensuring the service is delivered within the agreed structures outlined in the operational policy
• Provide clear and consistent leadership to the workforce of the team and offer professional advice when required
• To engage staff in the delivery of all performance targets for and on behalf of the Trust, to assist the team in improving the quality of the service
• Establish, develop and contribute to service developments within the directorate
• Understand the Trust’s key priorities and those of your care group and translate these into key priorities for your care group
• To develop, implement and maintain systems, processes and practice in risk management, including the management of Health and Safety
• Ensure all aspects of Safeguarding are adhered to and that policies and procedures are followed at all times
• Effective management of risk of infection ensuring related polices fully complied with and communicated in the team

Management responsibilities

• Provide regular reports as required in connection with financial management and performance monitoring of agreed service targets
• Authorised signatory and payroll change forms
• Ensure management of staff is consistent with Trust’s HR Policies to the achievement of equality, equity, and optimum performance
• Conduct and contribute to the PDR process for all staff within the team which reflect Trust and local priorities and ensure staff has access to appropriate training and development
• Co-ordinate and develop the practice and culture of the MDT team through close liaising with clinical leads around recruitment and service delivery
• Ensure appropriate supervision takes place in line with Trust policy
• Communicate regularly through team meetings, team briefings, clinical forums and individually with team members providing an opportunity for two-way feedback
• Ensure that service users and carers opinions and experiences are being responded to at a team level
• Ensure through effective leadership and management, continuous service development, improvement, and high-quality service delivery
• Clinical record keeping is of a consistent high standard and meets trust policy and practice guidance

Clinical

• Ensure effective communication systems and structures are in place to facilitate the dissemination of information relating to patients risk profiles
• To be professionally accountable for the planning and delivery of care leading on the prioritising of clinical needs and risk to provide an effective, safe and efficient service
• To ensure partnership working with service users and their families where appropriate, to meet a range of complex situations that arise from offending behaviour and mental health needs
• To ensure all policies are understood including Mental Health Act, Children’s Act and Safeguarding Adults

IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:

All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.  

You will need to provide: 

Proof of right to work documentation 

Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID

Proof of address documentation 

Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. 

Address History: 

5 years address history will be needed.  

Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously. 

Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.

In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).